different between last vs continues
last
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: läst, IPA(key): /l??st/
- (General American) enPR: l?st, IPA(key): /læst/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /last/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /?ast/
- Rhymes: -??st, -æst
Etymology 1
From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest.
Adjective
last (not comparable)
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- . (archaic usage)
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- 1802, Robert Hall, Reflections on War
- Contending for principles of the last importance.
- 1802, Robert Hall, Reflections on War
- Lowest in rank or degree.
Synonyms
- (final): at the end, caboose, dernier (dated), final, tail end, terminal, ultimate, lattermost
- (most recent): latest, most recent
Derived terms
Translations
Determiner
last
- The (one) immediately before the present.
- (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago.
Usage notes
- (both senses): This cannot be used in past or future tense to refer to a time immediately before the subject matter. For example, one does not say I was very tired yesterday, due to not having slept well last night: last night in that sentence refers to the night before the speaker is speaking, not the night before the "yesterday" to which he refers. He would need to say I was very tired yesterday, due to not having slept well the night before or the like.
Translations
Adverb
last (not comparable)
- Most recently.
- (sequence) after everything else; finally
Synonyms
- (after everything else): finally, lastly; see also Thesaurus:lastly
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English lasten, from Old English l?stan, from Proto-Germanic *laistijan?. Cognate with German leisten (“yield”).
Verb
last (third-person singular simple present lasts, present participle lasting, simple past and past participle lasted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
Synonyms
- continue
- endure
- survive
Antonyms
- disintegrate
- dissipate
- fall apart
- wear out
Related terms
- everlasting
- lasting
Translations
Etymology 3
From Old English læste, Proto-Germanic *laistiz. Compare Swedish läst, German Leisten.
Noun
last (plural lasts)
- A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
- 2006, Newman, Cathy, Every Shoe Tells a Story, National Geographic (September, 2006), 83,
- How is an in-your-face black leather thigh-high lace-up boot with a four-inch spike heel like a man's black calf lace-up oxford? They are both made on a last, the wood or plastic foot-shaped form that leather is stretched over and shaped to make a shoe.
- 2006, Newman, Cathy, Every Shoe Tells a Story, National Geographic (September, 2006), 83,
Derived terms
- cobbler, keep to your last
Translations
Verb
last (third-person singular simple present lasts, present participle lasting, simple past and past participle lasted)
- To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
Etymology 4
From Middle English last, from Old English hlæst (“burden, load, freight”), from Proto-Germanic *hlastuz (“burden, load, freight”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh?- (“to put, lay out”). Cognate with West Frisian lêst, Dutch last, German Last, Swedish last, Icelandic lest.
Noun
last (plural lasts or lasten)
- (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
- (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, page 114:
- Now we so quietly followed our businesse, that in three moneths wee made three or foure Last of Tarre, Pitch, and Sope ashes [...].
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, page 169,
- The last of wool is twelve sacks.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, page 114:
- (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
- 1942 (1601), T D Mutch, The First Discovery of Australia, page 14,
- The tonnage of the Duyfken of Harmensz's fleet is given as 25 and 30 lasten.
- 1942 (1601), T D Mutch, The First Discovery of Australia, page 14,
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
Derived terms
- belast
- ballast
Translations
Further reading
- last at OneLook Dictionary Search
- last (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- last on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Alts, LTAs, SALT, Salt, TLAs, alts, lats, salt, slat
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /last/, [lasd?]
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German last.
Noun
last c (singular definite lasten, plural indefinite laster)
- cargo
- cargo hold, hold (cargo area)
- weight, burden
Inflection
Synonyms
- (cargo): ladning
- (hold): lastrum
Etymology 2
From Old Norse l?str
Noun
last c (singular definite lasten, plural indefinite laster)
- vice
Inflection
Etymology 3
See laste (“to load, carry”) and laste (“to blame”).
Verb
last
- imperative of laste
Further reading
- last on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch last, from Old Dutch *last, from Proto-Germanic *hlastuz.
Noun
last m (plural lasten, diminutive lastje n)
- load, weight
- burden
- hindrance, problem
- expense
- (law) requirement, duty
- (dated) A measure of volume, 3 cubic meter
Derived terms
- belasten
- lastdrager
- last hebben van
- lastpost
- ten laste leggen
- vaste last
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
last
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of lassen
- (archaic) plural imperative of lassen
Anagrams
- stal
Estonian
Noun
last (genitive lasti, partitive lasti)
- cargo
Declension
Noun
last
- partitive singular of laps
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /last/
Etymology 1
From Old Norse l?str
Noun
last f (genitive singular lastar, plural lastir)
- vice
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Middle Low German last.
Noun
last f (genitive singular lastar, plural lastir)
- cargo
- cargo hold, hold (cargo area)
Inflection
German
Pronunciation
Verb
last
- second-person singular/plural preterite of lesen
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /last/
- Rhymes: -ast
Noun
last n (genitive singular lasts, no plural)
- blame
Declension
Synonyms
- (blame): baktal
Derived terms
- guðlast (“blasphemy”)
Related terms
- lasta (“to blame”)
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *last, from Proto-Germanic *hlastuz.
Noun
last m or f or n
- load, weight
- task, duty, obligation
- tax (money)
- (emotional) difficulty, sorrow
- a unit of volume
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: last
- Limburgish: las
Further reading
- “last”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “last”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German last
Noun
last f or m (definite singular lasta or lasten, indefinite plural laster, definite plural lastene)
- a load or cargo
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
last
- imperative of laste
References
- “last” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German last
Noun
last f or m (definite singular lasta or lasten, indefinite plural laster or lastar, definite plural lastene or lastane)
- a load or cargo
Derived terms
References
- “last” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *laistaz, along with the feminine variant l?st. Cognate with Middle Dutch leest (Dutch leest), Old High German leist (German Leist), Old Norse leistr (“foot, sock”) (Swedish läst, Danish læst).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??st/
Noun
l?st m (nominative plural l?stas)
- footstep, track
Declension
Derived terms
- wræcl?st
Related terms
- l?stan
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *volst?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lá?st/
Noun
l?st f
- property
Inflection
Swedish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
last c
- cargo
- load; a burden
- load; a certain amount that can be processed at one time
- (engineering) load; a force on a structure
- (electrical engineering) load; any component that draws current or power
- habit which is difficult to get rid of, vice
- Rökning var hans enda last
Declension
Derived terms
See also
- (cargo): lasta, lastbil
- (habit): vana, ovana
Descendants
- ? Finnish: lasti
Anagrams
- lats, salt, stal, tals
last From the web:
- what lasts forever
- what lasts longer than botox
- what last name means warrior
- what last name means death
- what last name goes first
- what last christmas
- what last names are jewish
- what last names mean
continues
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?t?nju?z/
Verb
continues
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of continue
Noun
continues
- plural of continue
Anagrams
- neustonic, un-notices, unnotices
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /kon.ti?nu.?s/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kun.ti?nu.?s/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kon.ti?nu.es/
Verb
continues
- second-person singular present indicative form of continuar
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.ti.ny/
Verb
continues
- second-person singular present indicative of continuer
- second-person singular present subjunctive of continuer
Latin
Verb
continu?s
- second-person singular present active subjunctive of continu?
Portuguese
Verb
continues
- second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of continuar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of continuar
continues From the web:
- what continues to shape canyons
- what continues to grow as you age
- what continues until equilibrium is achieved
- what continues to grow after you die
- what continues to grow after death
- what continues to grow when you die
- what continues naruto
- what continues to haunt paul
you may also like
- last vs continues
- discontinues vs continues
- lasts vs continues
- sustainability vs continues
- striation vs stripe
- striation vs prism
- striation vs dislocation
- striation vs storiation
- striction vs striation
- twinning vs striation
- striation vs striate
- pure vs unblamable
- unblamable vs upright
- unblamable vs guileless
- innocent vs unblamable
- unblameable vs unblamable
- unblamably vs unblamable
- unblameable vs unblameably
- unblamably vs unblameably
- brownie vs golem