Prolong vs Continuation - What's the difference?
prolong | continuation |
(label) To extend in space or length.
(label) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (label) To lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone.
The act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
(computing) A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point.
(basketball) A successful shot that, despite a foul, is made with a single continuous motion beginning before the foul, and that is therefore valid in certain forms of basketball.
As a verb prolong
is (label) to extend in space or length.As a noun continuation is
the act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.prolong
English
Verb
(en verb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged . In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
Derived terms
* prolongable * prolongation * prolonger * prolongmentReferences
* *continuation
English
Noun
(wikipedia continuation) (en noun)- the continuation of a story
- The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.
