keeping
noun
1 keeping
Conformity or harmony.
Roget 23:
agreement;
accord,
accordance;
unison,
harmony;
concord
etc.
714;
concordance,
concert;
understanding,
mutual understanding.
conformity
etc.
82;
conformance;
uniformity
etc.
16;
consonance,
consentaneousness†,
consistency;
congruity,
congruence;
keeping;
congeniality;
correspondence,
parallelism,
apposition,
union.
fitness,
aptness
etc.
adj.;
relevancy;
pertinence,
pertinencey†;
sortance†;
case in point;
aptitude,
coaptation†,
propriety,
applicability,
admissibility,
commensurability,
compatibility;
cognation
etc.
(relation)
9.
adaption†,
adjustment,
graduation,
accommodation;
reconciliation,
reconcilement;
assimilation.
consent
etc.
(assent)
488;
concurrence
etc.
178;
cooperation
etc.
709.
right man in the right place,
very thing;
quite the thing,
just the thing.
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Roget 428:
color,
hue,
tint,
tinge,
dye,
complexion,
shade,
tincture,
cast,
livery,
coloration,
glow,
flush;
tone,
key.
pure color,
positive color,
primary color,
primitive complementary color;
three primaries;
spectrum,
chromatic dispersion;
broken color,
secondary color,
tertiary color.
local color,
coloring,
keeping,
tone,
value,
aerial perspective.
[Science of color]
chromatics,
spectrum analysis,
spectroscopy;
chromatism†,
chromatography†,
chromatology†.
[instruments to measure color]
prism,
spectroscope,
spectrograph,
spectrometer,
colorimeter
(optical instruments)
445.
pigment,
coloring matter,
paint,
dye,
wash,
distemper,
stain;
medium;
mordant;
oil paint
etc.
(painting)
556.
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2 keeping
The responsibility of a guardian or keeper:
— He left his car in my keeping.
synonyms: guardianship, safekeeping.
Dutch: bewaring, voogdij
3 keeping
Moby thesaurus: accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, acquittal, acquittance, adaptation, adaption, adherence, adjustment, administration, agreement, auspices, balance, bilateral symmetry, bottling up, care, carrying out, charge, clinging, compliance, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, conservancy, conservation, conservational, conservationism, conservationist, conservative, conservatory, conserving, consistency, conventionality, corking up, correspondence, cure, custodianship, custody, discharge, dynamic symmetry, environmental conservation, equality, equilibrium, eurythmics, eurythmy, evenness, execution, finish, flexibility, forest conservation, forest management, fulfillment, governance, government, grasping, gripping, guardianship, guarding, guidance, hands, harmony, heed, heeding, hold, holding, holding in, inhibition, jurisdiction, keep, line, locking in, maintenance, malleability, management, ministry, multilateral symmetry, obedience, observance, observation, orthodoxy, oversight, parallelism, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, performance, pliancy, polarity, practice, prehension, preserval, preservation, preservative, preservatory, preserving, preventive custody, proportion, proportionality, protection, protective, protective custody, protectorship, reconcilement, reconciliation, regularity, repression, respect, retainment, retention, retentive, retentiveness, retentivity, safe hands, safekeeping, salvage, salvation, satisfaction, saving, shapeliness, soil conservation, stewardship, stream conservation, strictness, support, suppression, sustentation, symmetricalness, symmetry, tenacious, tenacity, traditionalism, trilateral symmetry, trust, tutelage, uniformity, upkeep, ward, wardenship, wardship, watch and ward, water conservation, wetlands conservation, wildlife conservation, wing ... show more.
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