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continue, go on, carry on, proceed

(verb) continue talking; “‘I know it’s hard’, he continued, ‘but there is no choice’”; “carry on--pretend we are not in the room”

proceed, go forward, continue

(verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space; “We proceeded towards Washington”; “She continued in the direction of the hills”; “We are moving ahead in time now”

retain, continue, keep, keep on

(verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature; “We cannot continue several servants any longer”; “She retains a lawyer”; “The family’s fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff”; “Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on”; “We kept the work going as long as we could”; “She retained her composure”; “this garment retains its shape even after many washings”

continue, uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve

(verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; “preserve the peace in the family”; “continue the family tradition”; “Carry on the old traditions”

continue, go on, proceed, go along, keep

(verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity; “Keep on working!”; “We continued to work into the night”; “Keep smiling”; “We went on working until well past midnight”

cover, continue, extend

(verb) span an interval of distance, space or time; “The war extended over five years”; “The period covered the turn of the century”; “My land extends over the hills on the horizon”; “This farm covers some 200 acres”; “The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles”

stay, stay on, continue, remain

(verb) continue in a place, position, or situation; “After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser”; “Stay with me, please”; “despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year”; “She continued as deputy mayor for another year”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

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).

(transitive) To make last; to prolong.

(transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.

(intransitive) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

(intransitive) To resume.

(transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.

(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, go on with, keep, keep on, proceed with, sustain

• (intransitive, resume): carry on, go on, proceed, resume

Antonyms

• (transitive, proceed with, to prolong): terminate, stop, discontinue

Noun

continue (plural continues)

(video games) An option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost.

(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

Anagrams

• un-notice, unnotice

Source: Wiktionary

Con*tin"ue, v. i. [imp. & p.p. Continued; p.pr. & vb.n. Continuing.] Etym: [F. continuer, L. continuare, -tinuatum, to connect, continue, fr. continuus. See Continuous, and cf. Continuate.]

1. To remain ina 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. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. John viii. 31.

Syn.

– To persevere; persist. See Persevere.

Con*tin"ue, v. 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 acustomed 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 frall 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. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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