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Webster 1913 Edition

Continue

Con-tin′ue

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Continued
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Continuing
.]
[F.
continuer
, L.
continuare
,
-tinuatum
, to connect, continue, fr.
continuus
. See
Continuous
, and cf.
Continuate
.]
1.
To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
Here to
continue
, and build up here
A growing empire.
Milton.
They
continue
with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
Matt. xv. 32.
2.
To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.
But now thy kingdom shall not
continue
.
1 Sam. xiii. 14.
3.
To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions;
as, the army
continued
to advance
.
Syn. – To persevere; persist. See
Persevere
.

Con-tin′ue

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To unite; to connect.
[Obs.]
the use of the navel is to
continue
the infant unto the mother.
Sir T. browne.
2.
To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.
O
continue
thy loving kindness unto them that know thee.
Ps. xxxvi. 10.
You know how to make yourself happy by only
continuing
such a life as you have been long accustomed to lead.
Pope.
3.
To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.
A bridge of wond’rous length,
From hell
continued
, reaching th' utmost orb
of this frail world.
Milton.
4.
To retain; to suffer or cause to remain;
as, the trustees were
continued
; also, to suffer to live.
And how shall we
continue
Claudio.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Continue

CONTINUE

,
Verb.
I.
[L., to hold. See Tenet.]
1.
To remain in a state, or place; to abide for any time indefinitely.
The multitude continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. Matthew 15.
2.
To last; to be durable; to endure; to be permanent.
Thy kingdom shall not continue. 1 Samuel 13.
3.
To persevere; to be steadfast or constant in any course.
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. John 8.

CONTINUE

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To protract; not to cease from or to terminate.
O continue thy loving kindness to them that know thee. Psalm 36.
2.
To extend from one thing to another; to produce or draw out in length. Continue the line from A to B. Let the line be continued to the boundary.
3.
To persevere in; not to cease to do or use; as, to continue the same diet.
4.
To hold to or unite. [Not used.]
The navel continues the infant to its mother.

Definition 2024

continue

continue

See also: continu, continué, and continúe

English

Verb

continue ‎(third-person singular simple present continues, present participle continuing, simple past and past participle continued)

  1. (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?
    • 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in 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.
    • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
      Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
  2. (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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?
  3. (transitive) To retain (someone) in a given state, position etc.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p.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 […].
  4. (intransitive) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
    • Milton
      Here to continue, and build up here / A growing empire.
    • Bible, Matthew xv. 32
      They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
  5. (intransitive) To resume.
    When will the concert continue?
  6. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
    This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.
  7. (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").

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Noun

Examples (statement which causes a loop to execute the next iteration)

Line 3 of the following pseudocode contains a continue.
1. for c = 1 to 5 do
2.  if (c == 3) do
3.   continue;
4.  end
5.  print(c + " ");
6. end

continue ‎(plural continues)

  1. (video games) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost.
  2. (video games) an option allowing a player to resume a saved game.
  3. (programming) a statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements following it

Coordinate terms

  • (statement which causes a loop to execute the next iteration): break

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

continue

  1. Inflected form of continu

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.ti.ny/

Verb

continue

  1. first-person singular present indicative of continuer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of continuer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of continuer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of continuer
  5. second-person singular imperative of continuer

Adjective

continue

  1. feminine singular of continu

Anagrams

Italian

Adjective

continue f

  1. feminine plural of continuo

Latin

Adjective

continue

  1. vocative masculine singular of continuus

References

Portuguese

Verb

continue

  1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of continuar
  2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of continuar
  3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of continuar
  4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of continuar

Romanian

Adjective

continue ‎(plural)

  1. feminine plural form of continuu
  2. neuter plural form of continuu

Verb

continue ‎(third person subjunctive)

  1. third-person singular subjunctive form of continua.
  2. third-person plural subjunctive form of continua.

Etymology

From Middle French continuer, from Latin continuare.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kən-tĭnʹyo͞o, IPA(key): /kənˈtɪnjuː/

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