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Appreciating vs Keeping - What's the difference?

appreciating | keeping |

As verbs the difference between appreciating and keeping

is that appreciating is while keeping is .

As nouns the difference between appreciating and keeping

is that appreciating is appreciation while keeping is conformity or harmony.

As an adjective appreciating

is appreciative: having or showing appreciation.

appreciating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Appreciative: having or showing appreciation.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • appreciation
  • * 2005 , Theodore Cheney, Getting the Words Right (page 238)
    • There are so many underlinings, so many exclamation points in the margins, and so much highlighting from my many readings and appreciatings that it looks like a case of severe book abuse. It is not; these are marks of love.

    keeping

    English

    Noun

  • conformity or harmony.
    • The songs are new but in keeping with tradition.
    The foreground of this painting is not in keeping .
  • charge or care.
  • * South
    • His happiness is in his own keeping .
  • Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
    • The cattle have good keeping .
  • * Milton
    • the work of many hands, which earns my keeping

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * in keeping with

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