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keeper
[ kee-per ]
noun
- a person who guards or watches, as at a prison or gate.
Synonyms: ,
- a person who assumes responsibility for another's behavior:
He refused to be his brother's keeper.
Synonyms: ,
- a person who owns or operates a business (usually used in combination):
a hotelkeeper.
- a person who is responsible for the maintenance of something (often used in combination):
a zookeeper; a groundskeeper.
- a person charged with responsibility for the preservation and conservation of something valuable, as a curator or game warden.
- a person who conforms to or abides by a requirement:
a keeper of his word.
- a fish that is of sufficient size to be caught and retained without violating the law.
- Football. a play in which the quarterback retains the ball and runs with it, usually after faking a hand-off or pass.
- something that serves to hold in place, retain, etc., as on a door lock.
- something that lasts well, as a fruit.
- an iron or steel bar placed across the poles of a permanent horseshoe magnet for preserving the strength of the magnet during storage.
keeper
/ ˈ°ì¾±Ë±èÉ™ /
noun
- a person in charge of animals, esp in a zoo
- a person in charge of a museum, collection, or section of a museum
- a person in charge of other people, such as a warder in a jail
- a person who keeps something
- a device, such as a clip, for keeping something in place
- a soft iron or steel bar placed across the poles of a permanent magnet to close the magnetic circuit when it is not in use
Derived Forms
- ˈ°ì±ð±ð±è±ð°ùËŒ²õ³ó¾±±è, noun
- ˈ°ì±ð±ð±è±ð°ù±ô±ð²õ²õ, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From
- °ì±ð±ð±èİù·±ô±ð²õ²õ adjective
- °ì±ð±ð±èİù·²õ³ó¾±±è noun
- ³Ü²Ôd±ð°ù·°ì±ð±ð±èİù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
The Argentine kept just his fourth clean sheet of the season in Wednesday's win at Brighton but he is a differential keeper option for this week and the rest of the season.
"You are constantly being asked questions at the top," said former England keeper Joe Hart on Match of the Day.
"In penalty shootouts you always need a little bit of luck but I'm really happy," the Belgium keeper said afterwards.
But the keeper came up big, pushing the right-footed shot away for his third save.
"He became the keeper of the Welsh constitution but was always prepared to think outside the box," she said.
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