different between conservation vs keeping

English

Etymology

From Old French.Surface analysis conserve +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?ns?(?)?ve???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

conservation (countable and uncountable, plural conservations)

1. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
2. Wise use of natural resources.
3. (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
4. (biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
5. (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
6. (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

Derived terms

• anticonservation
• anticonservationist
• conservational
• conservation law

Translations

Anagrams

• conversation, nanovortices

French

Etymology

From Latin conservatio.

Pronunciation

Noun

conservation f (plural conservations)

1. conservation

Derived terms

• loi de conservation
• loi de conservation de l'énergie

Further reading

• “conservation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• conversation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ki?p??/
• Rhymes: -i?p??

Noun

keeping (countable and uncountable, plural keepings)

1. conformity or harmony.

2. charge or care.

   • His happiness is in his own keeping.

3. Maintenance; support; provision; feed.

Translations

Verb

keeping

1. present participle of keep

Derived terms

• in keeping with

Anagrams

• peeking