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

(en verb)

To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by "wait for".)

* Dryden

Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, / And wait with longing looks their promised guide.

* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 30:

The Court had assembled, to wait events, in the huge antechamber known as the Œil de Boeuf.

To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.

* (John Milton)

They also serve who only stand and wait .

* (John Dryden)

Haste, my dear father; 'tis no time to wait .

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(US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.

(obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.

* Dryden

He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all / His warlike troops, to wait the funeral.

* Rowe

Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, / And everlasting anguish be thy portion.

(obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.

(obsolete) To defer or postpone (a meal).

to wait dinner