Etimology
From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continuāre. Displaced native Old English þurhwunian.
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, copulative sense obsolete) 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.
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.
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.
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."
[…] 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 […].
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.
When will the concert continue?
This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.
Related words
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"): terminate, stop, discontinue
related terms
contain
continent
continental
continual
continuity
continuous
continuum
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.
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.