Keeping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for KEEPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• have or retain possession of
• retain or reserve for future use
• put or store in a regular place
• continue or cause to continue in a specified condition, position, course, etc.
• continue doing or do repeatedly
• (of a perishable commodity) remain in good condition
• be in a specified state of health
• make (someone) do something for a period of time
• cause to be late; delay
• continue to follow (a path or course)
• provide for the sustenance of (someone)
• provide (someone) with a regular supply of a commodity
• own and look after (an animal) for pleasure or profit
• own and manage (a shop or business)
• guard; protect
• support (someone, especially a woman) financially in return for sexual favours
• honour or fulfil (a commitment or undertaking)
• observe (a religious occasion) in the prescribed manner
• pay due regard to (a law or custom)
• make written entries in (a diary) on a regular basis
• write down as (a record)
• retain one's place in or on (a seat or saddle, the ground, etc.) in spite of difficulty
NOUN:
• custody, ownership
• food, clothes, and other essentials for living
• the cost of the essentials for living.
• charge; control
• the strongest or central tower of a castle, acting as a final refuge.
• A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.
• Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.
• Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.
• Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.
• conformity or harmony
• the responsibility of a guardian or keeper
• the act of retaining something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to continue to possess

Words related to KEEPING

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Words that contain KEEPING

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How to use KEEPING in a sentence

• One day a vessel came in sight, and keeping in the middle of the river would have passed by without stopping.
• No weather could stop him from keeping his engagements.
• Higgs who was keeping in the background, he was pitched to the police-station by the energetic constable and five zealous assistants.
• The English evacuated Paris, and left the keeping of it to the Duke of Burgundy, no doubt to test his fidelity.
• She was a woman and her heart was in the keeping of this sturdy Russian.
• At length I got through the fog and came to an open field, beyond which I saw the outlines of trees against the clouded sky, and, keeping on, came to a road.
• The post-office people were so resolved on keeping their Christmas, that they would not let me keep mine.
• In the meantime, had he succeeded in keeping his object concealed from Emily? He had perfectly succeeded.
• Sidroc made Turgar his own attendant, keeping him always near him.
• Her hand had sought and grasped the revolver which she had been keeping in the drawer of her night-table, since she had come to fear the threats of her pursuer.
• Keeping their distances, mostly with shrouded faces, bent heads, and folded hands, all the White Ladies passed.
• That day, because of the rain, Trenholme insisted upon keeping her to dinner with him.
• I swam a few paces under water, then lay quiet, holding myself up by the reeds, and keeping my mouth to the air.
• She might have some reason other than fear in keeping him out.
• Keeping a gun on him carefully, they hurried along, trying to push the pace while Ross delayed all he could.
• But what use would there be in that if all his money should then be gone? He knew that the keeping of money in his pocket was to him quite an impossibility.
• These all differ, whilst still keeping an unmistakable German character.
• She also had dreamed of a friendship, though it was not what she had dreamed of most, and it came over her that this was the one which fortune might have been keeping.
• The canoe had been enough to excite his curiosity, but everything he saw about the camp was in keeping with such luxury.
• He was keeping his part of the contract, but he was also breaking the way for hers.
• It had been made largely for the purpose of keeping Louis quiet while Charles was absent.
• But there is no use in keeping back the real truth any longer.
• But just as jewelry is best when it is most individual, so the ornament of a building should be in keeping with its general character and complexion.
• Nothing short of death or mortal sickness could be keeping the boy away.
• You are keeping all these idle persons, remember, at far greater cost than if they were busy.
• She would be quite willing to show that she had been deceived into consenting, and was only keeping her word as a matter of principle.
• The oxidation flame requires a steady current of air, for the purpose of keeping the blue cone constantly of the same length.
• Coal is condensed sunshine, still keeping all the old light and power.

Similar words containing KEEP without suffix ing

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