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  • 1continue — ● continue nom féminin Consonne dont l émission s accompagne d un écoulement ininterrompu du flux d air phonatoire. (Les constrictives, les approximantes, les latérales, les glides et les nasales sont des continues.) ● continu, continue adjectif… …

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  • 2continue — con·tin·ue vt tin·ued, tinu·ing: to postpone (a legal proceeding) to a future day Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. continue I …

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  • 3Continue — Con*tin ue, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Continued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Continuing}.] [F. continuer, L. continuare, tinuatum, to connect, continue, fr. continuus. See {Continuous}, and cf. {Continuate}.] 1. To remain in a given place or condition; to… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 4Continue — may refer to: Continue (video gaming), an option to continue a video game after all the player s lives have been lost Continue (album), a 2008 Cantopop album by Pakho Chau Continue (keyword), a programming language keyword See also Continuity… …

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  • 5Continue — Con*tin ue, v. t. 1. To unite; to connect. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] the use of the navel is to continue the infant unto the mother. Sir T. browne. [1913 Webster] 2. To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not. [1913… …

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  • 6continue — CONTINUE. s. f. Durée sans interruption. Il ne s emploie qu adverbialement. A la continue, pour dire, A la longue, à force de continuer. Il travaille d abord avec ardeur, mais à la continue il se ralentit. A la continue il se lasse …

    Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • 7continué — continué, ée (kon ti nu é, ée) part. passé. L expédition continuée malgré les obstacles. Un magistrat continué dans ses fonctions. Un ouvrage resté longtemps inachevé et enfin continué …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 8continue — continue, last, endure, abide, persist are comparable when meaning to remain indefinitely in existence or in a given condition or course. Continue distinctively refers to the process and stresses its lack of an end rather than the duration of or… …

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  • 9continue to be — index endure (last), exist Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 10continue — mid 14c., contynuen, from O.Fr. continuer (13c.), from L. continuare join together, connect, make or be continuous, from continuus uninterrupted, from continere (intransitive) to be uninterrupted, lit. to hang together (see CONTAIN (Cf. contain)) …

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