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Keeling vs Keeping - What's the difference?

keeling | keeping |

As verbs the difference between keeling and keeping

is that keeling is while keeping is .

As nouns the difference between keeling and keeping

is that keeling is (zoology) a cod while keeping is conformity or harmony.

keeling

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic keila, Swedish kolja, Danish kulle.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A cod.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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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