different between continuation vs lasting
continuation
English
Etymology
From Middle English continuacion, from Old French continuation, from Latin continu?ti?.Morphologically continue +? -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?nt?nj??e??(?)n/
- Hyphenation: con?tin?u?a?tion
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
continuation (countable and uncountable, plural continuations)
- The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession
- Synonyms: prolongation, propagation
- Antonyms: discontinuation, termination
- That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
- the continuation of a story
- The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.
- (computing) A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point.
- (basketball) A successful shot that, despite a foul, is made with a single continuous motion beginning before the foul, and that is therefore valid in certain forms of basketball.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
References
- continuation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Middle French continuation, from Old French continuation, borrowed from Latin continu?ti?, continu?ti?nem.
Pronunciation
Noun
continuation f (plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
Derived terms
- bonne continuation
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French continuation.
Noun
continuation f (plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
Descendants
- French: continuation
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)
Old French
Etymology
Late Old French, borrowed from Latin continu?ti?, continu?ti?nem.
Noun
continuation f (oblique plural continuations, nominative singular continuation, nominative plural continuations)
- continuation (act of continuing)
Descendants
- Middle French: continuation
- French: continuation
- ? Middle English: continuacion
- English: continuation
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (continuation, supplement)
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lasting
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?læst??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l??st??/
- (æ-tensing) IPA(key): /?le?st??/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /?last??/
- Rhymes: -??st??, -æst??
- Hyphenation: last?ing
Adjective
lasting (comparative more lasting, superlative most lasting)
- Persisting for an extended period of time.
- Synonyms: abiding, durable; see also Thesaurus:lasting
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 5, p. 249,[1]
- […] hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry
- Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.
- 1706, Susanna Centlivre, Love at a Venture, London: John Chantry, Act V, p. 63,[2]
- Look ye, Marriage is a lasting thing—if it were for six Months only, I might venture upon thee—but for all days of my Life—mercy upon me […]
- 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 11,[3]
- I knew that nought was lasting, but now even
- Change grows too changeable, without being new:
- 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, 1944, Chapter 34, p. 311,[4]
- Then his son bought a carven coffin hewn from a great log of fragrant wood which is used to bury the dead in and for nothing else because that wood is as lasting as iron, and more lasting than human bones, and Wang Lung was comforted.
- (obsolete) Persisting forever.
- Synonyms: eternal, everlasting; see also Thesaurus:eternal
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act 5, Scene 7,[6]
- I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
- Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
- And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
- His soul and body to their lasting rest.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, p. 24,[7]
- Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.
Derived terms
- lastingly
- lastingness
Translations
Verb
lasting
- present participle of last
Noun
lasting (plural lastings)
- (obsolete) The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.
- Synonyms: continuance, duration, endurance
- 1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334,[8]
- But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.
- 1651, John Donne, Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, dedicatory epistle,[9]
- […] it may be some kinde of Prophecy, of the continuance, and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves […]
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 2, Chapter 10, § 4, p. 65,[10]
- But concerning the several degrees of lasting, wherewith Ideas are imprinted on the Memory, we may observe […]
- A durable woollen material formerly used for women's shoes.
- Synonym: everlasting
- The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
Anagrams
- Gatlins, salting, slating, staling
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From laste +? -ing
Noun
lasting f or m (definite singular lastinga or lastingen, indefinite plural lastinger, definite plural lastingene)
- loading (av / of)
Antonyms
- lossing
References
- “laste_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From laste +? -ing
Noun
lasting f (definite singular lastinga, indefinite plural lastingar, definite plural lastingane)
- loading (av / of)
Antonyms
- lossing
References
- “lasting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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