Ongoing vs Continued - What's the difference?
ongoing | continued |
Something that is going on; a happening.
* 1961 , Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure
(dated) Prolonged; unstopped.
* 1797 , , J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hi?tory ,
* 1819 [1736], (preface), The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature ,
* 1820 , A. P. Wilson Philip, A Treatise on Fevers: Including the Various Species of Simple and Eruptive Fevers ,
Uninterrupted.
(continue)
As adjectives the difference between ongoing and continued
is that ongoing is continuing, permanent while continued is prolonged; unstopped.As a noun ongoing
is something that is going on; a happening.As a verb continued is
past tense of continue.ongoing
English
Noun
(en noun)- We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.
Anagrams
*continued
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 20,
- and for the pronunciation of F , a more continued ?ound is nece??ary than for that of any of the con?onants.
page 93,
- But when the exercise of the virtuous principle is more continued , oftener repeated, and more intense, as it must be in circumstances of danger, temptation, and difficulty of any kind and any degree, this tendency is increased proportionably, and a more confirmed habit is the consequence.
page 57,
- Instead of becoming more continued , intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.