Keeping vs Possession - What's the difference?
keeping | possession | Synonyms |
conformity or harmony.
charge or care.
* South
Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
* Milton
Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
Something that is owned.
Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
A territory under the rule of another country.
The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
* Shakespeare
(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
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(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
Keeping is a synonym of possession.
As nouns the difference between keeping and possession
is that keeping is conformity or harmony while possession is control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.As verbs the difference between keeping and possession
is that keeping is while possession is (obsolete) to invest with property.keeping
English
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
Verb
(head)Derived terms
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*possession
English
Noun
(wikipedia possession) (en noun)- The car quickly became his most prized possession .
- I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
- The car is in my possession .
- I'm in possession of the car.
- Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .
- Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .
- How long hath this possession held the man?
- The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .
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- Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession''' — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable '''possession — my foot will always be mine.