Progressing and Continue
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Progress.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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"
- Continue talking.
- usage: "I know it's hard" he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on-pretend we are not in the room"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- Exist over a prolonged period of time.
- usage: "The bad weather continued for two more weeks"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary