Conservation vs Keeping - What's the difference?
conservation | keeping | Related terms |
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
Wise use of natural resources.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
(biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
(culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
(physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
conformity or harmony.
charge or care.
* South
Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
* Milton
Conservation is a related term of keeping.
As nouns the difference between conservation and keeping
is that conservation is the act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation while keeping is conformity or harmony.As a verb keeping is
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(wikipedia conservation)Noun
citation, passage=“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.
Derived terms
* anticonservation * anticonservationist * conservationalAnagrams
* ----keeping
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Noun
- The songs are new but in keeping with tradition.
- The foreground of this painting is not in keeping .
- His happiness is in his own keeping .
- The cattle have good keeping .
- the work of many hands, which earns my keeping
