Keeper vs Great - What's the difference?
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One who keeps something.
(slang) A person or thing worth keeping.
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A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
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, chapter=4 (sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.
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A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits in the frame and receives the bolt.
(American football) An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.
One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
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* 1971 , H. R. F. Keating, The Strong Man
A fruit that keeps well.
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Very big, large scale.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:He doth object I am too great of birth.
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Title referring to an important leader.
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Superior; admirable; commanding; applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
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Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble.
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(lb) Pregnant; large with young.
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*:the ewes great with young
More than ordinary in degree; very considerable.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:We have all / Great' cause to give ' great thanks.
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Intimate; familiar.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:those that are so great with him
Expression of gladness and content about something.
sarcastic inversion thereof.
A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
A course of academic study devoted to the works of such persons and also known as Literae Humaniores ; the "Greats" name has official status with respect to 's program and is widely used as a colloquialism in reference to similar programs elsewhere.
(music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
very well (in a very satisfactory manner)
As a noun keeper
is one who keeps something.As a verb great is
.keeper
English
Noun
(en noun)- Finders keepers ; losers weepers.
- You can throw out all the blurry photos, but the one with her and her daughter is certainly a keeper .
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- When he brought me home and volunteered to come with me while I walked my dog, Max, I knew he was a keeper .
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- We hadn't dated for long when he said those three magic words: "I'll cook tonight." I knew he was a keeper .
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- "Fine," I agreed. “But, Josh, my sister and I can handle it. You sit, watch football with the guys.”
- “I would rather stick close to you. Besides, I love cleaning up.”
- “I knew he was a keeper ,” Gran said.
- And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper ?
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- discreet; chaste; keepers at home
- I was not altogether surprised: they seemed to be, even more than people in the surrounding wolds, stolid keepers -to-themselves, impossible to stir, dourly determined to stick to the firm routine of their lives
- The Roxbury Russet is a good keeper .
Derived terms
* account-keeper * beekeeper * bookkeeper * bridgekeeper * brothel keeper * deer-keeper * doorkeeper * dungeon-keeper * forestkeeper * gamekeeper * gaolkeeper * gatekeeper * goalkeeper * greenskeeper * groundkeeper * groundskeeper * harem-keeper * hotelkeeper * housekeeper * innkeeper * jailkeeper * keykeeper * lighthouse keeper * lock-keeper * menagerie keeper * park keeper * ring-keeper * salad keeper * scorekeeper * seal keeper * shopkeeper * storekeeper * tally-keeper * timekeeper * watchkeeper * wicketkeeper * zookeepergreat
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(wikipedia great)Adjective
(er)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like // Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
Usage notes
In simple situations, using modifiers of intensity such as fairly'', ''somewhat , etc. can lead to an awkward construction, with the exception of certain common expressions such as “so great” and “really great”. In particular “very great” is unusually strong as a reaction, and in many cases “great” or its meaning of “very good” will suffice.Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* great big * great chamber * great hall * great room * greatly * greatnessInterjection
(en interjection)- Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.
- Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order.
Noun
(en noun)- Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.
- Spencer read Greats at Oxford, taking a starred first.
Adverb
(-)- Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don't have to be sharpened.
