different between reside vs continue

English

Etymology

From Old French resider, from Latin reside? (“remain behind, reside, dwell”), from re- (“back”) + sede? (“sit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???za?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d
• Hyphenation: re?side

Verb

reside (third-person singular simple present resides, present participle residing, simple past and past participle resided)

1. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
   • , [Act III, scene i]:

     […] And the delighted ?pirit / To die in fierie floods, or to recide / In thrilling Region of thicke-ribbed Ice […]
2. To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
   • , [Act I, scene ii]:

     […] for Cogitation / Re?ides not in that man, that do’s not thinke […]

3. To sink; to settle, as sediment.
   • a. 1729, William Congreve, “The Birth of the Muse”, in The Works of Mr. William Congreve, volume III, London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Drape, published 1753, page 222:

     […] The madding Winds are hu?h’d, the Tempe?ts cea?e, / And every rolling Surge resides in Peace.

Related terms

• coreside
• residence
• residency
• resident
• residential

Translations

See also

• abide
• dwell
• live
• stay

Further reading

• reside in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• reside in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• reside at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• desier, desire, eiders, eresid, redies

Latin

Verb

resid?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of reside?

Portuguese

Verb

reside

1. third-person singular present indicative of residir
2. second-person singular imperative of residir

Spanish

Verb

reside

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of residir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of residir.

English

Etymology

From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continu?re. Displaced native Old English þurhwunian.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?n-t?n?yo?o, IPA^(key): /k?n?t?nju?/

Verb

continue (third-person singular simple present continues, present participle continuing, simple past and past participle continued)

1. (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
2. (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
   • , New York, 2001, p.74:

     Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?

3. (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p.257:

     The schools were very much the brainchild of Bertin, and although the latter was ousted from the post of Controller-General by Choiseul in 1763, he was continued by the king as a fifth secretary of state […].

4. (intransitive, copulative sense obsolete) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
   • He then passed by the fellow, who still continued in the posture in which he fell, and entered the room where Northerton, as he had heard, was confined.

5. (intransitive) To resume.

6. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.

7. (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.

Usage notes

• In the transitive sense, continue may be followed by either the present participle or the infinitive; hence use either "to continue writing" or "to continue to write".
• As continue conveys the sense of progression, it is pleonastic to follow it with "on" (as in "Continue on with what you were doing").

Synonyms

• (transitive, proceed with, to prolong): carry on, crack on, go on with, keep, keep on, keep up, proceed with, sustain
• (intransitive, resume): carry on, go on, proceed, resume

Antonyms

• (transitive, proceed with, to prolong): terminate, stop, discontinue

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

continue (plural continues)

1. (video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.
2. (programming) A statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements following it.

Coordinate terms

• (statement which causes a loop to execute the next iteration): break

Anagrams

• un-notice, unnotice

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

continue

1. Inflected form of continu

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ti.ny/

Verb

continue

1. first-person singular present indicative of continuer
2. third-person singular present indicative of continuer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of continuer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of continuer
5. second-person singular imperative of continuer

Adjective

continue

1. feminine singular of continu

Anagrams

• couinent

Interlingua

Adjective

continue (comparative plus continue, superlative le plus continue)

1. continuous

Italian

Adjective

continue

1. feminine plural of continuo

Latin

Adjective

continue

1. vocative masculine singular of continuus

References

• continue in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• continue in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

continue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of continuar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of continuar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of continuar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of continuar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon?ti.nu.e/

Adjective

continue (plural)

1. feminine plural of continuu
2. neuter plural of continuu

Verb

continue (third person subjunctive)

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of continua
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of continua