continue
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
law
poker
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continuāre. Displaced native Middle English thurghwonen, from Old English þurhwunian.
Inflected forms:
form: continues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: continuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: continued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: continued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: continue
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: continue
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: continued
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: continue
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: continuest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: continued
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: continuedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: continues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: continueth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: continued
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: continue
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: continued
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: continue
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: continued
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: continue
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: continuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: continued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: continues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?
Do you want me to continue to unload these?
Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
Amid criticism that it was acting too slowly and indecisively in the face of disaster, TEPCO flooded three of its unstable reactors with water. It continues to do so while efforts continue towards long-term recovery.
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.
It has emphasised that the proposals do not involve any work on the railway itself, so train services would continue to run throughout.
gloss: To make last; to prolong.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?
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."
gloss: To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] 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 […]
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 […].
gloss: To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Here to continue, and build up here / A growing empire.
They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
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.
gloss: To resume.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When will the concert continue?
gloss: To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.
gloss: To make a continuation bet.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.
pos: noun
examples: So if you died battling the green monster inside the cave—and you had run out of lives—maybe a continue would be available.
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.
Synonyms: carry on
crack on
go on with
keep
keep on
keep up
proceed with
sustain
retain
Antonyms: terminate
stop
discontinue
Related words: contain
continent
continental
continual
continuity
continuous
continuum
Derived words: 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
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