Keeper (surname) Keeper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Brady Keeper (born 1996), Canadian ice hockey defenseman
* Cyril Keeper (born 1943), Canadian politician
* Joe Keeper (1886–1971), Canadian long-distance runner
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Archivist
An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to Document, records and archives determined to have long-term value. The records maintained by an archivist c ...
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Beekeeper
A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees.
Beekeepers are also called honey farmers, apiarists, or less commonly, apiculturists (both from the Latin '' apis'', bee; cf. apiary). The term beekeeper refers to a person who keeps honey bees i ...
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Gamekeeper
A gamekeeper (often abbreviated to keeper), or in case of those dealing with deer (deer-)stalker, is a person who manages an area of countryside (e.g. areas of woodland, moorland, waterway or farmland) to make sure there is enough game for shoo ...
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Gatekeeper
A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something, for example via a city gate or bouncer, or more abstractly, controls who is granted access to a category or status. Gatekeepers assess who is "in or out", in the classic words of manage ...
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Greenkeeper
A Greenskeeper (or Course Superintendent) is a person responsible for the care and upkeep of a golf course or a sports turf playing surface.
Work description and duties
A greenskeeper maintains a golf course's or country club's grounds. Thi ...
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Keeper of the Privy Purse
The Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the King/Queen (or Financial Secretary to the King/Queen) is responsible for the financial management of the Royal Households of the United Kingdom, Royal Household of the Monarchy of the United Kingd ...
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Keeper of the Royal Archives
The Keeper of the Royal Archives is responsible for the papers held in the Royal Archives, and is accountable to The King.
Since 1945, the office of Keeper of the Royal Archives in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom
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Legal guardian
A legal guardian is a person who has been appointed by a court or otherwise has the legal authority (and the corresponding duty) to make decisions relevant to the personal and property interests of another person who is deemed incompetent, call ...
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Lighthouse keeper
A lighthouse keeper or lightkeeper is a person responsible for tending and caring for a lighthouse, particularly the light and lens in the days when oil lamps and clockwork mechanisms were used. Lighthouse keepers were sometimes referred to as ...
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Museum curator
A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...
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Prison warden
The warden (United States, US, Canada) or governor (United Kingdom, UK, Australia), also known as a superintendent (US, South Asia) or director (UK, New Zealand), is the official who is in charge of a prison.
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In the United States and Canad ...
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Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The Royal status of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is intrinsically linked to the issue of a Royal Warrant to the first Intendant of the Gardens in 1699. Since that date, the appointment of each new Director of RBGE has required the as ...
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Zookeeper
A zookeeper, sometimes referred as animal keeper, is a person who manages zoo animals that are kept in captivity for conservation or to be displayed to the public.Hurwitz, Jane. Choosing a Career in Animal Care (World of Work). New York: Rosen Gr ...
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Goalkeeper
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...
, a player who protects a goal
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Quarterback keeper
A quarterback keeper or keeper in American football is a designed play in which the quarterback does not pass or hand off the ball to another player and instead rushes forward with it in an effort to gain yardage. The play typically is run in ins ...
, a slang term for a play in American football
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Wicket-keeper
The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being watchful of the batsman and ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises. Th ...
Homeworld 2
''Homeworld 2'' is a real-time strategy video game sequel to ''Homeworld'', developed by Relic Entertainment and released in 2003 by now defunct publisher Sierra Entertainment. Its story concerns Hiigara's response to a new enemy called the Vaygr. ...
'', Keepers are deadly destroyers built by the ancient Progenitors
* In ''Thief'' (series) games, a Keeper is a member of a secret society who are charged with "keeping the balance" of power even within The City
* The Keepers (''Mass Effect''), a fictional artificial species from the BioWare game ''Mass Effect''
* Keepers, an artificial life-forms that protect the Earth in the Nintendo game '' Sin & Punishment: Star Successor''
* The Keeper, a playable character in the game '' The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth'' introduced in the Afterbirth DLC
Keeper (chemistry) Keepers are substances (typically solvents, but sometimes adsorbent solids) added in relatively small quantities during an evaporative procedure in analytical chemistry, such as concentration of an analyte-solvent mixture by rotary evaporation. The ...
a small quantity of solvent added in an evaporative procedure to prevent analyte loss
* ''The Keepers'', English title of ''
Head Against the Wall
''Head Against the Wall'' (french: La Tête contre les murs) is a 1959 French drama film directed by Georges Franju which stars Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Anouk Aimée, and Charles Aznavour. Called ''The Keepers'' on its ...
'', a 1959 French drama film directed by Georges Franju
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Keeper (password manager)
Keeper Security, Inc. (Keeper) is a leading provider of zero-knowledge security and encryption software covering password management, secrets management, connection management, dark web monitoring, digital file storage, encrypted messaging a ...
Quidditch
Quidditch is a fictional sport invented by author J.K. Rowling for her fantasy book series ''Harry Potter''. It first appeared in the novel ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (1997). It is a dangerous but popular sport played by witc ...
from Harry Potter, a position that defends the goal hoops
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Keeper (Transformers)
''The Transformers'' was an 80-issue American comic book series published by Marvel Comics telling the story of the Transformers. Originally scheduled as a four-issue miniseries, it spawned a mythology that would inform other versions of the saga. ...
, a comics character
* Keeper, see
Drakh
The list of ''Babylon 5'' characters contains characters from the entire ''Babylon 5'' universe. The Babylon station was conceived as a political and cultural meeting place. As such, one of the show's many themes is the cultural and social intera ...
, a parasitic creature in the universe of ''Babylon 5''
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Magnet keeper
A magnet keeper, also known historically as an armature, is a bar made from magnetically soft iron or steel, which is placed across the poles of a permanent magnet to help preserve the strength of the magnet by completing the magnetic circuit; ...
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Menstrual cup
A menstrual cup is a menstrual hygiene device which is inserted into the vagina during menstruation. Its purpose is to collect menstrual fluid (blood from the uterine lining mixed with other fluids). Menstrual cups are usually made of flexible ...
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Strike plate
This is a glossary of locksmithing terms.
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Locksmithing
Locksmithing is the science and art of making and defe ...
of a door latch
* Keeper, a space wizard from the TV show ''
Dino Charge
''Power Rangers Dino Charge'' is the twenty-second season of the long-running television program ''Power Rangers''. Using footage, costumes and props from Japanese 37th Super Sentai Series ''Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger'', it is the first season to ...
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* Keeper, a slang term for a
romantic partner
Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions.
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of either sex who has shown the attributes of someone worth hanging on to in a relationship
* Keeper is one English translation for the Arabic ''
Khasadar
The Khasadar (Arabic أَمين for Keeper/Guardian) were paramilitary forces operating throughout the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), now a part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The Khasadar were a locally recruited and ma ...
'', who are/were a Pakistani government funded but locally recruited security force in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Goalkeeper (disambiguation) Goalkeeper is a playing position in many team sports which involve scoring goals.
Goalkeeper or goalkeepers may also refer to:
Specific sports
* Goalkeeper (association football)
** Goalkeeper glove
** Goalkeepers coach
* Goalkeeper (bandy)
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Keepers (disambiguation)
Keepers may refer to:
* ''Keepers'' (novel), a 2005 novel written by Gary A. Braunbeck
* "Keepers" (''Journeyman''), the sixth episode of the first season of ''Journeyman''
* '' Keepers: Greatest Hits'', a Tracy Byrd album
* ''Keepers'' (Guy Cla ...
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The Keeper (disambiguation) The Keeper, or its plural The Keepers, may refer to:
Films
* ''The Keepers'' (1959 film), English-language release of French film '' La Tête contre les murs''
* ''The Keeper'' (1976 film), starring Christopher Lee
* ''The Keeper of Traken'', a 1 ...