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Keeping vs Protecting - What's the difference?

keeping | protecting |

As verbs the difference between keeping and protecting

is that keeping is while protecting is .

As a noun keeping

is conformity or harmony.

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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    protecting

    English

    Verb

    (head)