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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
continue
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
continue to exist
▪ We all hope the human race will continue to exist for millions of years.
continue your education
▪ I hope to continue my education after high school.
continue your journey
▪ We stopped for breakfast, then continued our journey.
continued apace
▪ Expansion of the company has continued apace.
continued survival
▪ The continued survival of this species of dolphin seems unlikely.
continued unabated
▪ The storm continued unabated throughout the night.
continue/grow/go unchecked
▪ We cannot allow such behaviour to continue unchecked.
continuing education
continuing/enduring popularity
▪ Today, the novel enjoys enduring popularity and ranks among the USA's top-selling books.
maintain/carry on/continue/uphold a tradition (=make a tradition continue in the same way or at the same standard as before)
▪ We maintain a tradition of cider making dating from Norman times.
sth's continued existence
▪ The city's continued existence is threatened by rising water levels.
take up/pick up/continue (sth) etc where sb left off (=continue something that has stopped for a short time)
▪ Barry took up the story where Justine had left off.
talks continue/are underway
▪ Talks will continue through the weekend.
work continues
▪ Work is continuing on three major building projects.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
work
▪ Discussion of less traditional approaches and concerns continues with reference to social work and citizens' charters, citizenship and participation.
▪ Disease continued its work in the 1850s and 1860s, as did enslavement and outright murder.
▪ Since Chance's day, other researchers have continued the work.
▪ Helen continued to look for work, and to economize.
▪ But we need your help to continue our work.
▪ Rank, a cocaine addict, commits suicide, but his followers continue his work.
▪ And removing it would be like asking the local council to continue its work with one hand tied behind its back.
▪ Tesla asked if Westinghouse proposed to continue his missionary work for the alternating-current system he had invented.
■ VERB
allow
▪ As it was, they merely added to Government borrowing while allowing the recession to continue as before.
▪ Subjects who normally smoked or drank were allowed to continue doing so throughout their quarantine.
▪ I shall allow questions to continue until 4.30.
▪ Ribeirao Preto and Londrina were allowed to continue to remain independent because they were already in operation at the time.
▪ The Government have allowed law-breaking to continue.
▪ If approved by the House, the punishment would allow Gingrich to continue as speaker.
▪ Arguments then ensued as to who allowed other speakers to continue for more than their allotted time.
▪ Stalin excused the appalling conduct of his troops and encouraged an official mind-set that allowed the rapes to continue.
expect
▪ I confidently expect to see continued growth in this area in the years ahead.
▪ Many economists expect the Fed to continue easing rates during the first half of 1996, further depressing yields.
▪ Many market analysts expect the sector to continue to climb in 1996, benefiting in part from the colder weather this winter.
▪ They were expected to continue for a month, with a 10-day break in early September.
▪ That situation is expected to continue until about 2012, when the baby boomers begin retiring.
▪ Arms production declined in 1989 and was expected to continue declining.
▪ That trend is expected to continue.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "That may be," he continued, "but the factory will still be closing at the end of the year."
Continuing in a quieter voice, she asked how long he'd been married.
▪ After a while the rain stopped, allowing the game to continue.
▪ Before they could continue their conversation, Frank Gordon came over to speak to Oliver.
▪ Despite all the warnings, many people continue to smoke.
▪ Dry weather will continue through the weekend.
▪ Have a rest before you continue driving.
▪ He's not sure whether he'll be able to continue skiing competitively after the operation.
▪ He has decided to go back to Cambridge to continue his medical studies.
▪ My teacher advised me to continue with my studies.
▪ NASA continues its efforts to communicate with intelligent beings in outer space.
▪ Nate didn't answer, so Murphy continued, "All of this happened before I was hired."
▪ She continued to live in the same house after the death of her husband.
▪ Some people have lost work, and this will continue to happen until the computer system is fixed.
▪ Sometimes she just couldn't see the point of continuing.
▪ Soviet leaders said they would continue Gorbachev's democratic reforms.
▪ The concert will continue after a brief intermission.
▪ The good weather seems likely to continue.
▪ The project's organizers hope the government will continue funding it next year.
▪ The review process is expected to continue for several weeks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Development can continue, but alongside conservation, so that those who depend on natural resources can continue to do so.
▪ He flicked away another cigarette as they made their way towards him to continue the drive still higher into the hills.
▪ The analogies between jazz and pentecostalism continue into more recent years.
▪ The hearing continues Thursday with testimony from Federal Reserve Board officials and consumer advocates.
▪ The result continues to be discrimination.
▪ Turn and continue cooking on the other side, approximately 4 to 5 minutes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Continue

Continue \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 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.
    --Shak.

Continue

Continue \Con*tin"ue\, v. 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. 3

  2. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
continue

mid-14c., contynuen, from Old French continuer (13c.), from Latin continuare "join together, connect, make or be continuous," from continuus "uninterrupted," from continere (intransitive) "to be uninterrupted," literally "to hang together" (see contain). Related: Continued; continuing.

Wiktionary
continue

n. 1 (context video games English) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after (l/en: game over), when all (l/en life lives) have been lost. 2 (context video games English) an option allowing a player to (l/en: resume) a (l/en: saved game). 3 (context programming English) a (l/en: statement) which causes a (l/en: loop) to start executing the next (l/en: iteration), skipping the statements following it vb. (context transitive English) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).

WordNet
continue
  1. v. 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" [syn: go on, proceed, go along, keep] [ant: discontinue]

  2. continue with one's activities; "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room" [syn: go on, carry on, proceed]

  3. 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" [syn: uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve] [ant: discontinue]

  4. 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" [syn: proceed, go forward]

  5. allow to remain in a place or position; "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" [syn: retain, keep, keep on, keep going]

  6. carry forward; "We continued our research into the cause of the illness" [syn: persist in]

  7. continue after an interruption; "The demonstration continued after a break for lunch"

  8. 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" [syn: stay, stay on, remain]

  9. exist over a prolonged period of time; "The bad weather continued for two more weeks"

Wikipedia
Continue

Continue may refer to:

  • Continue (video gaming), an option to continue a video game after all the player's lives have been lost
  • Continue (Pakho Chau album), 2008
  • Continue (Wax album)
  • Continue (keyword), a programming language keyword
Continue (Wax album)

Continue is the second studio album by rapper Wax, released on January 15, 2013. It is Wax's first solo release since having left Def Jam Recordings.

Usage examples of "continue".

They were looking at each other, their eyes on a level, and when slowly she turned from him and walked towards the house, he took his doubled fist and beat it against his brow before continuing on his way.

Shias from the Iranian province of Daylam south of the Caspian Sea, the Buwayhids continued to permit Sunni Abbasid caliphs to ascend to the throne.

It seems strange that the Moslim peoples, although the theory of Islam never attributed an hereditary character to the Khalifate, attached so high a value to the Abbasid name, that they continued unanimously to acknowledge the Khalifate of Bagdad for centuries during which it possessed no influence.

Hertel continued his retreat to one of the Abenaki villages on the Kennebec.

I take Ulric abovestairs so that you may continue with your conference?

Juilin continued to slip abovestairs and was seen by Suroth, which earned him a strapping hung up by his wrists from a stallpost in the stables.

Khosrul continued in softer, more melancholy accents, that, while plaintive, were still singularly impressive.

The dimensions of the consecrated bread and wine continue, while a miraculous change is wrought in the other accidents, as stated above.

Therefore it follows that the accidents continue in this sacrament without a subject.

The flow of Iranians into Iraq, which began during the rein of the Achaemenids, initiated an important demographic trend that would continue intermittently throughout much of Iraqi history.

The Acoma cow already has the upper hand and she continues to grow stronger.

For a year or more, until Susanna Adams was remarried to an older Braintree man named John Hall, she continued to live with her son Peter in the family homestead next door, and the two women grew extremely fond of one another.

OF THE MULTIPLE ISSUES in contention between Britain and the new United States of America, and that John Adams had to address as minister, nearly all were holdovers from the Treaty of Paris, agreements made but not resolved, concerning debts, the treatment of Loyalists, compensation for slaves and property confiscated by the British, and the continued presence of British troops in America.

When in a meeting with Lord Carmarthen, Adams summoned all his old intensity to warn that the attitude of the British, if continued, would inevitably strengthen commercial ties between the United States and France, it had no effect whatever.

So while preparation for war would continue, Adams had signaled that the door to peace remained ajar.