Verb

(continu)

to proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).

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.

To make last; to prolong.

* , New York, 2001, p.74:

Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?

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

* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p.257:

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 […].

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

* Milton

Here to continue , and build up here / A growing empire.

* Bible, Matthew xv. 32

They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

to resume

When will the concert continue ?

(legal) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.

This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.

(poker slang) To make a continuation bet.

Verb

To cross out something with lines etc.

* Blackstone

A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled ; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.

To invalidate or annul something.

He cancelled his order on their website.

* 1914 , (Marjorie Benton Cooke), Bambi

*:"I don't know what your agreement was, Herr Professor, but if it had money in it, cancel it. I want him to learn that lesson, too."

To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.

This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.

To offset or equalize something.

The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.

(mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.

(media) To stop production of a programme.

(printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

* Milton

cancelled from heaven

(slang) To kill.