continue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kən-tĭnʹyo͞o
ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuː/
ipa: /-(j)ɪu̯/
ipa: /kənˈtɪnjʉu/
note: Dublin
ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuː/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɵɳʈɪˈn(j)u/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ɲu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: continues
form: continuing
form: continued
form: continued
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: continue
form: continue
form: continued
form: continue
form: continuest
form: continued
form: continuedst
form: continues
form: continueth
form: continued
form: continue
form: continued
form: continue
form: continued
form: continue
form: -
form: continuing
form: continued
Etymology: From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continuāre. Displaced native Middle English thurghwonen, from Old English þurhwunian.
Senses: examples: text: Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?
text: Do you want me to continue to unload these?
text: Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, BBC^([Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea]):
text: It has emphasised that the proposals do not involve any work on the railway itself, so train services would continue to run throughout.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: £7.2 million plan to stop flooding and protect South West rail link”, in RAIL, number 948, page 12:
synonyms: extend
run
glosses: To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
examples: text: Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?
ref: , New York, 2001, p.74
text: 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."
ref: 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 4
glosses: To make last; to prolong.
examples: text: […] 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 […]
ref: 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:
text: 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 […].
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 257:
glosses: To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
examples: text: Here to continue, and build up here / A growing empire.
ref: 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:
text: They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew xv:32:
text: 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.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: copulative sense obsolete
glosses: To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
examples: text: When will the concert continue?
glosses: To resume.
examples: text: This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.
topics: law
glosses: To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To make a continuation bet.
Synonyms: sense: proceed with, to prolong
word: carry on
sense: proceed with, to prolong
word: crack on
sense: proceed with, to prolong
word: go on with
sense: proceed with, to prolong
word: keep
sense: proceed with, to prolong
word: keep on
sense: proceed with, to prolong
word: keep up
sense: proceed with, to prolong
word: proceed with
sense: proceed with, to prolong
word: sustain
sense: proceed with, to prolong
word: retain
sense: resume
word: carry on
sense: resume
word: go on
sense: resume
word: proceed
sense: resume
word: resume
Derived terms: continuable
continual
continually
continuant
continuation
continuative
continuatively
continued fraction
continuedly
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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