different between being vs continuance
being
English
Alternative forms
- beeing (archaic)
- beïng (rare)
Etymology
Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English being; see be + -ing.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?bi???/
- (US) IPA(key): /?bi??/, /?bi?/
- Rhymes: -i???, -??
- Hyphenation: be?ing
Verb
being
- present participle of be
Noun
being (countable and uncountable, plural beings)
- A living creature.
- The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
- 1608-1634, John Webster (and perhaps Thomas Heywood), Appius and Virginia
- Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being.
- 1608-1634, John Webster (and perhaps Thomas Heywood), Appius and Virginia
- (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
- (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
- (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
- It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor.
Synonyms
- (a living creature): See also Thesaurus:creature
- (the state or fact of existence): See also Thesaurus:existence
Derived terms
Translations
Conjunction
being
- Given that; since.
- , New York Review Books 2001, p.280:
- ’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many […].
- , New York Review Books 2001, p.280:
Synonyms
- as, because, seeing that; see also Thesaurus:because
Derived terms
- being that
Translations
References
- “being”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
- “being” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "being" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
- "being" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
See also
Anagrams
- Bengi, begin, binge
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
being f (genitive singular beinge, plural beingean)
- bench, form
being From the web:
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continuance
English
Alternative forms
- continuaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English continuance, contynuaunce, from Old French continuance, from continuer.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?n?t?nju?ns/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?t?nj??ns/
- Hyphenation: con?tin?u?ance
Noun
continuance (countable and uncountable, plural continuances)
- (uncountable) The action of continuing.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:
- Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16, [1]
- […] the interview's continuance already had attracted observation from some topmen aloft and other sailors in the waist or further forward.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:
- (countable, law) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.
Synonyms
- (action of continuing): perdurance, remanence; see also Thesaurus:permanence
Antonyms
- discontinuance
Translations
continuance From the web:
- continuance meaning
- what does contingent mean
- continuance what is the definition
- what is continuance commitment
- what does continuance mean in court
- what is continuance in court
- what does continuance granted mean
- what is continuance pay
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