# continue
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continuāre. Displaced native Old English þurhwunian.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: kən-tĭnʹyo͞o, IPA: /kənˈtɪnjuː/, /-(j)ɪu̯/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uː

### Verb

continue (third-person singular simple present continues, present participle continuing, simple past and past participle continued)
* (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
    Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?
    Do you want me to continue to unload these?
** 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
** 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, BBC‎:Fuelled by their fury, Spurs surged forward and gave themselves hope after 56 minutes when Scott Parker's precise through-ball released Adebayor. He was pulled down in the area by Cech but referee Atkinson allowed play to continue for Bale to roll the ball into an empty net.
** 2022 January 12, “Network News: £7.2 million plan to stop flooding and protect South West rail link”, in RAIL, number 948, page 12:It has emphasised that the proposals do not involve any work on the railway itself, so train services would continue to run throughout.
* (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1:, New York, 2001, p.74:
    Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?
** 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread , chapter 4:Gino was distracted. She knew why; he wanted a son. He could talk and think of nothing else. His one desire was to become the father of a man like himself, and it held him with a grip he only partially understood, for it was the first great desire, the first great passion of his life. Falling in love was a mere physical triviality, like warm sun or cool water, beside this divine hope of immortality: "I continue."
* (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
** 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:[…] dip the mouth of it within the second glass and remove your finger; continue it in that posture for a time, and it will unmingle the wine from the water […]
** 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 257:The schools were very much the brainchild of Bertin, and although the latter was ousted from the post of Controller-General by Choiseul in 1763, he was continued by the king as a fifth secretary of state […].
* (intransitive, copulative sense obsolete) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Here to continue, and build up here / A growing empire.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew xv:32:They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
** 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:He then passed by the fellow, who still continued in the posture in which he fell, and entered the room where Northerton, as he had heard, was confined.
* (intransitive) To resume.
    When will the concert continue?
* (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
    This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.
* (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.

#### Usage notes

* In the transitive sense, continue may be followed by either the present participle or the infinitive; hence use either "to continue writing" or "to continue to write".
* As continue conveys the sense of progression, it is pleonastic to follow it with "on" (as in "Continue on with what you were doing").

#### Synonyms

* (transitive, proceed with, to prolong): carry on, crack on, go on with, keep, keep on, keep up, proceed with, sustain, retain
* (intransitive, resume): carry on, go on, proceed, resume

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “transitive, proceed with, to prolong”): terminate, stop, discontinue

#### Derived terms

* continuable
* continual
* continually
* continuant
* continuation
* continuative
* continuatively
* continued fraction
* continuedly
* continued on page 94
* continued page 94
* continue on one's merry way
* continuing education
* continuingly
* continuing resolution
* continuity
* continuous
* continuously
* continuum
* discontinue
* miscontinue
* noncontinuing
* recontinue
* to be continued

#### Related terms

* contain
* continent
* continental
* continual
* continuity
* continuous
* continuum

#### Translations
### Noun

continue (plural continues)
* (video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.
** 2008, Jeannie Novak, Luis Levy, Play the Game: The Parent's Guide to Video Games, →ISBN, page 48:So if you died battling the green monster inside the cave—and you had run out of lives—maybe a continue would be available.
** 2012, James A. Newman, Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, →ISBN, page 128:Moreover, where three lives and a sparse availability of extra life-giving '1-Ups' marked the 1991 experience, the iPod player is offered an unlimited number of continues with which to progress through the gameworld.

### Anagrams

* un-notice, unnotice

## Dutch
### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

continue
* Misspelling of continu (“continuous”).

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

#### Adjective

continue
* inflection of continu:
** masculine/feminine singular attributive
** definite neuter singular attributive
** plural attributive

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃.ti.ny/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

continue
* inflection of continuer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Adjective

continue
* feminine singular of continu

### Anagrams

* couinent

## Galician
### Verb

continue
* (reintegrationist norm) inflection of continuar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Interlingua
### Adjective

continue (comparative plus continue, superlative le plus continue)
* continuous

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /konˈti.nu.e/, /konˈti.nwe/
* Rhymes: -inue, -inwe
* Hyphenation: con‧tì‧nu‧e, con‧tì‧nue

### Adjective

continue f pl
* feminine plural of continuo

### References

* ↑ continuo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* nuocenti

## Latin
### Adjective

continue
* vocative masculine singular of continuus

### References

* “continue”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* continue in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Verb

continue
* inflection of continuar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /konˈti.nu.e/

### Adjective

continue (plural)
* feminine/neuter plural of continuu

### Verb

continue (third person subjunctive)
* third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of continua