Continue vs Belive - What's the difference?
continue | belive |
to proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
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To make last; to prolong.
* , New York, 2001, p.74:
To retain (someone) in a given state, position etc.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p.257:
To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
* Milton
* Bible, Matthew xv. 32
to resume
(legal) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
(poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
(video games) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after have been lost.
(video games) an option allowing a player to .
(programming) a , skipping the statements following it
(intransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To remain, stay.
* 1900' (original date: '''1483 ), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, ''The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints :
(intransitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To abide, continue.
(obsolete, outside, Scotland) Quickly, forthwith.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.v:
Soon, presently, before long; by and by; anon
English words prefixed with be-
As verbs the difference between continue and belive
is that continue is to proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity) while belive is to remain, stay.As a noun continue
is an option allowing a gamer to resume play after {{l/en|game over}}, when all {{l/en|life|lives}} have been lost.As an adverb belive is
quickly, forthwith.continue
English
Verb
(continu)- Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?
- Do you want me to continue to unload these?
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- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
- Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?
- 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.
- When will the concert continue ?
- This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.
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
* carry on, go on with, keep, keep on, proceed with * (sense) carry on, go on, proceed, resumeAntonyms
* terminate, discontinueNoun
(wikipedia continue) {{examples-right, sense=statement which causes a loop to execute the next iteration, examples= Line 3 of the following pseudocode contains a continue . 1. for c = 1 to 5 do 2. tif (c == 3) do 3. ttcontinue; 4. tend 5. tprint(c + " "); 6. end}} (en noun)Coordinate terms
* (statement which causes a loop to execute the next iteration) 1000 English basic words ----belive
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) beliven, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* *Verb
- So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) belive, .Alternative forms
*Adverb
(en adverb)- By that same way the direfull dames doe driue / Their mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood, / And downe to Plutoes house are come biliue [...].