continue (
http://definr.com/continue)
v 1: continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on
working!" "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep
smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
[syn:
go on,
proceed,
go along,
keep] [ant:
discontinue]
2: continue with one's activities; "I know it's hard," he
continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we
are not in the room" [syn:
go on,
carry on,
proceed]
3: keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or
last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the
family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions" [syn:
uphold,
carry on,
bear on,
preserve] [ant:
discontinue]
4: move ahead; travel onward; "We proceeded towards
Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the
hills"; can also be used in the temporal sense: "We are
moving ahead in time now" [syn:
proceed,
go forward]
5: allow to remain in a place or position; "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"
[syn:
retain,
keep,
keep on,
keep going]
6: carry forward; "We continued our research into the cause of
the illness" [syn:
persist in]
7: continue after an interruption; "The demonstration continued
after a break for lunch"
8: continue in a place, position, or situation: "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" [syn:
stay,
stay on,
remain]
9: exist over a prolonged period of time; "The bad weather
continued for two more weeks"