continueverb/kənˈtɪn.juː/

• 1

  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?
• 2

  To make last; to prolong.

  • Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?
  • Gino was distracted. She knew why; he wanted a son. He could talk and think of nothing else. His one desire was to become the father of a man like himself, and it held him with a grip he only partially understood, for it was the first great desire, the first great passion of his life. Falling in love was a mere physical triviality, like warm sun or cool water, beside this divine hope of immortality: "I continue."
• 3

  To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.

  • […] dip the mouth of it within the second glass and remove your finger; continue it in that posture for a time, and it will unmingle the wine from the water […]
  • 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 […].
• 4

  To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

  • Here to continue, and build up here / A growing empire.
  • They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
• 5

  To resume.

  • When will the concert continue?
• 6

  lawTo adjourn, prorogue, put off.

  • This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.
• 7

  slangcard-gamespokerTo make a continuation bet.

continuenoun/kənˈtɪn.juː/

• 1

  video-gamesAn option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.

  • So if you died battling the green monster inside the cave—and you had run out of lives—maybe a continue would be available.
  • Moreover, where three lives and a sparse availability of extra life-giving '1-Ups' marked the 1991 experience, the iPod player is offered an unlimited number of continues with which to progress through the gameworld.