different between ongoing vs continues

English

Etymology

From on +? going, related to the phrasal verb go on.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ongoing (not comparable)

1. Continuing, permanent, lasting.
2. Presently or currently happening; being in progress.
   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone

     The iconic "Playboy Interview" feature launched in 1962 with future Roots author Alex Haley interviewing Miles Davis (Hefner was a huge jazz aficionado and later founded the Playboy Jazz Festival) and would eventually feature many luminaries, setting the stage for the ongoing joke, "We really read Playboy for the articles."

Translations

Noun

ongoing (plural ongoings)

1. Something that is going on; a happening.
   • 1961, Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure

     We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.

Translations

Verb

ongoing

1. (rare) present participle of ongo

Anagrams

• going on

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?t?nju?z/

Verb

continues

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of continue

Noun

continues

1. 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

1. second-person singular present indicative form of continuar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ti.ny/

Verb

continues

1. second-person singular present indicative of continuer
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of continuer

Latin

Verb

continu?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of continu?

Portuguese

Verb

continues

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of continuar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of continuar