Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CONTINUE

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Definitions of CONTINUE

1. (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
2. (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
3. (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
4. (intransitive, copulativesenseobsolete) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
5. (intransitive) To resume.
6. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
7. (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
8. (video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.

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Examples of Using CONTINUE in a Sentence

• Alexei despised his father and repeatedly thwarted Peter's plans to raise him as successor to the throne, to continue his policies.
• The Delian League was a confederacy of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, founded in 478 BC under the leadership (hegemony) of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.
• In general, bootstrapping usually refers to a self-starting process that is supposed to continue or grow without external input.
• The indigenous peoples in Colombia used and some continue to use the waterways as the way of transportation using rafts and canoes.
• The remaining players continue the game to establish second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-, and last-place finishers.
• Some of the most notable feminist science fiction works have illustrated these themes using utopias to explore a society in which gender differences or gender power imbalances do not exist, or dystopias to explore worlds in which gender inequalities are intensified, thus asserting a need for feminist work to continue.
• The haitch pronunciation of h has spread in England, being used by approximately 24% of English people born since 1982, and polls continue to show this pronunciation becoming more common among younger native speakers.
• Many other tribal migrations from French Polynesia, notably Tahiti would continue for centuries forming a unique Māori society.
• Wiseman created a magazine in 1979 to support Traveller, with Game Designers' Workshop publishing The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society (JTAS), which Wiseman would continue to develop as its editor.
• They exerted a strong influence on the early 1970s progressive rock movement, including on contemporaries such as Yes and Genesis, and continue to inspire subsequent generations of artists across multiple genres.
• A full knockout is considered any legal strike or combination thereof that renders an opponent unable to continue fighting.
• Having established a programme of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern Africa, he also motivated many future generations to continue this scholarly work.
• A loyalty program or a rewards program is a marketing strategy designed to encourage customers to continue to shop at or use the services of one or more businesses associated with the program.
• However, after holding 40% of the Canadian market share in the 1960s through to 1996, its market share declined to 28% in 2014 and is expected to continue to do so, in part due to production cost and in part due to consumers favoring sweeter, crisper, and less tart apple varieties.
• Most large-scale computer-system architectures were established in the 1960s, but they continue to evolve.
• There continue to be three large parties, and several smaller ones, with no single party gaining a majority in the National Assembly of Niger.
• Obituary has released eleven studio albums and, with the exception of a six-year hiatus from 1997 to 2003, they continue to perform live.
• The film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack, after which Dax attempts to defend them against charges of cowardice in a court-martial.
• The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends people seek pediatric care through the age of 21, but some pediatric subspecialists continue to care for adults up to 25.
• Both languages continue to be developed independently by different development teams which liberally borrow ideas from each other.
• In handwriting, it was common not to close the bottom of the loop but continue into the leg, saving an extra pen stroke.
• For example, the first version of RoboHelp released by Adobe Systems in January 2007 was the 14th version of the software, but Adobe Systems decided to continue the numbering convention from Macromedia and thus gave this version the number 6.
• However, in recent years the total fertility rate (TFR) of South Korea has plummeted, leading some researchers to suggest that if current trends continue, the country's population will shrink to approximately 28 million people by the end of the 21st century.
• The substance, which resembles other liquids such as helium I (conventional, non-superfluid liquid helium), flows without friction past any surface, which allows it to continue to circulate over obstructions and through pores in containers which hold it, subject only to its own inertia.
• They adopted their current team colors – navy blue, northwest green (teal), and silver – prior to the 1993 season, after having been royal blue and gold since the team's inception; the original colors continue to be used in alternate uniforms.

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