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Placing vs Keeping - What's the difference?

placing | keeping |

As verbs the difference between placing and keeping

is that placing is present participle of lang=en while keeping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between placing and keeping

is that placing is the action of the verb to placekeeping is conformity or harmony.

placing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to place
  • The condition of being placed
  • The position of a competitor at the end of a race

    • 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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