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Continues vs Continued - What's the difference?

continues | continued |

As verbs the difference between continues and continued

is that continues is third-person singular of continue while continued is past tense of continue.

As an adjective continued is

prolonged; unstopped.

continues

English

Verb

(head)
  • (continue)
  • ----

    continue

    English

    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?
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 15, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
  • , title= 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.}}
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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.
  • 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, resume

    Antonyms

    * terminate, discontinue

    Noun

    (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)
  • (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
  • Coordinate terms

    * (statement which causes a loop to execute the next iteration) 1000 English basic words ----

    continued

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Prolonged; unstopped.
  • * 1797 , , J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hi?tory , page 20,
  • and for the pronunciation of F , a more continued ?ound is nece??ary than for that of any of the con?onants.
  • * 1819 [1736], (preface), The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature , 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.
  • * 1820 , A. P. Wilson Philip, A Treatise on Fevers: Including the Various Species of Simple and Eruptive Fevers , page 57,
  • Instead of becoming more continued , intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.
  • Uninterrupted.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (continue)
  • Anagrams

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