Next vs Continue - What's the difference?
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Following in a sequence.
Being closer to the present location than all other items.
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, title= Nearest following (of date, time, space or order).
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, title= (figuratively) Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.
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The one immediately following the current or most recent one
Closest to seven days (one week) in the future.
In a time, place or sequence closest or following.
On the first subsequent occasion,
On the side of; next to.
* 1900 , The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices , translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2:
The one that follows after this one.
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
As nouns the difference between next and continue
is that next is the one that follows after this one while 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 adjective next
is following in a sequence.As a determiner next
is the one immediately following the current or most recent one.As an adverb next
is in a time, place or sequence closest or following.As a preposition next
is on the side of; next to.As a verb continue is
to proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).next
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal) * (l) (Scotland)Adjective
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Antonyms
* previous * (closest to seven days ahead) last, thisDeterminer
(en determiner)- Next week would be a good time to meet.
- I'll know better next time.
- The party is next Tuesday; that is, not this Tuesday, but nine days from now.
Adverb
(-)- They live in the next closest house.
- It's the next best thing to ice cream.
- Next , we stripped off the old paint.
- Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next ?
- When we next meet, you'll be married.
Antonyms
* previouslyPreposition
(English prepositions)- The fact that the line cannot be original is patent from the fact that Aias in the rest of the Iliad is not encamped next the Athenians .
Noun
(-)- ''Next , please, don't hold up the queue!
continue
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Verb
(continu)- Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?
- Do you want me to continue to unload these?
Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea, passage=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.}}
- 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.