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keeping

noun
/ˈkiːpɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. Conformity or harmony.

    • The songs are new but in keeping with tradition.
    • The foreground of this painting is not in keeping.

  2. Charge or care.

    • His happiness is in his own keeping.

  3. Maintenance

    Maintenance; support; provision; feed.

    • The cattle have good keeping.
    • The work of many hands, which earns my keeping
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. present participle and gerund of keep

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at keeping. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at keeping. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at keeping

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA