Keeping and Meaning

Keeping

Keeping noun - Responsibility for the safety and well-being of someone or something.

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Meaning and keeping are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Meaning" instead a noun "Keeping".

Nearby Words: keep, keeper

Meaning noun - The idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action.

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Keeping and meaning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keeping" instead a noun "Meaning".

Nearby Words: mean, means, meaningful, meaningless, meaningly

old	old keeping	old meaning
full	full keeping	full meaning
true	true keeping	true meaning
great	great keeping	great meaning
Other adjectives: wrong, new, traditional, former, less, greater, basic, modern.

Wearing the ring removes these disadvantages while keeping all the advantages, meaning that the only disadvantage that remains is having to deal with a few Knights once per in game year.

Source: Game Breaker / The Elder Scrolls
To make matters worse, keeping your shield up drastically cuts the recovery rate of stamina, meaning that if you don't do things right, you'll either try regenerating stamina and get killed, or keep your shield up and get knocked over.

Source: Resources Management Gameplay
Double Meaning Title: Safe most obviously refers to Luke keeping Mei safe, but later in the movie it's clear that it's referring to the fact that the code is a combination to, well, a safe.

Source: Film / Safe (2012)

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