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Preserving vs Keeping - What's the difference?

preserving | keeping |

As verbs the difference between preserving and keeping

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

As nouns the difference between preserving and keeping

is that preserving is preservation while keeping is conformity or harmony.

preserving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • preservation
  • * 1924 , Wilbur Olin Hedrick, The Economics of a Food Supply (page 26)
    • Some preservings of foods, indeed, can scarcely be done to advantage except on a large scale.

    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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