Include and Continue

verb

• Have as a part, be made up out of.
  • usage: "The list includes the names of many famous writers"
• Consider as part of something.
  • usage: "I include you in the list of culprits"
• Add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category.
  • usage: "We must include this chemical element in the group"
• Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of.
  • usage: "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"
  • synonyms: admit, let in

• (v.t.) To conclude; to end; to terminate.
• (v.t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.
• (v.t.) To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

verb

• Continue a certain state, condition, or activity.
  • usage: "Keep on working"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
  • synonyms: go on, proceed, go along, keep
• Continue talking.
  • usage: "I know it's hard" he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on-pretend we are not in the room"
  • synonyms: go on, carry on, proceed
• Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last.
  • usage: "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"
  • synonyms: uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve
• Move ahead; travel onward in time or space.
  • usage: "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now"
  • synonyms: proceed, go forward
• Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature.
  • usage: "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings"
  • synonyms: retain, keep, keep on
• Do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop.
  • usage: "We continued our research into the cause of the illness"; "The landlord persists in asking us to move"
  • synonyms: persist in
• Continue after an interruption.
  • usage: "The demonstration continued after a break for lunch"
• Continue in a place, position, or situation.
  • usage: "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"
  • synonyms: stay, stay on, remain
• Span an interval of distance, space or time.
  • usage: "The war extended over five years"; "The period covered the turn of the century"; "My land extends over the hills on the horizon"; "This farm covers some 200 acres"; "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles"
  • synonyms: cover, extend
• Exist over a prolonged period of time.
  • usage: "The bad weather continued for two more weeks"

• (v.t.) To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.
• (v.i.) To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.
• (v.i.) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
• (v.t.) To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.
• (v.t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.
• (v.i.) To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.
• (v.t.) To unite; to connect.