Continue vs. Process

(transitive) To proceed with doing an activity; to prolong an activity.

Example: ‘Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?’; ‘Do you want me to continue to unload these?’;

(transitive) To make last; to prolong.

(transitive) To retain someone or something in a given state, position, etc.

(intransitive) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

(intransitive) To resume.

Example: ‘When will the concert continue?’;

To adjourn, prorogue, put off.

Example: ‘This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.’;

(poker slang) To make a continuation bet.

(video games) An option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost.

(programming) A statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements following it.

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

Example: ‘Here to continue, and build up hereA growing empire.’; ‘They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.’;

To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.

Example: ‘But now thy kingdom shall not continue.’;

To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.

Example: ‘If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed.’;

To unite; to connect.

Example: ‘the use of the navel is to continue the infant unto the mother.’;

To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.

Example: ‘O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee.’; ‘You know how to make yourself happy by only continuing such a life as you have been long accustomed to lead.’;

To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.

Example: ‘A bridge of wond'rous length,From hell continued, reaching th' utmost orbof this frail world.’;

To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.

Example: ‘And how shall we continue Claudio.’;

continue a certain state, condition, or activity;

Example: ‘Keep on working!’; ‘We continued to work into the night’; ‘Keep smiling’; ‘We went on working until well past midnight’;

continue with one's activities;

Example: ‘I know it's hard,’; ‘but there is no choice’; ‘carry on--pretend we are not in the room’;

keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last;

Example: ‘preserve the peace in the family’; ‘continue the family tradition’; ‘Carry on the old traditions’;

move ahead; travel onward in time or space;

Example: ‘We proceeded towards Washington’; ‘She continued in the direction of the hills’; ‘We are moving ahead in time now’;

allow to remain in a place or position;

Example: ‘We cannot continue several servants any longer’; ‘She retains a lawyer’; ‘The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff’; ‘Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on’; ‘We kept the work going as long as we could’;

carry forward;

Example: ‘We continued our research into the cause of the illness’;

continue after an interruption;

Example: ‘The demonstration continued after a break for lunch’;

continue in a place, position, or situation;

Example: ‘After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser’; ‘Stay with me, please’; ‘despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year’; ‘She continued as deputy mayor for another year’;

exist over a prolonged period of time;

Example: ‘The bad weather continued for two more weeks’;

A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.

Example: ‘This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.’;

(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.

A path of succession of states through which a system passes.

(anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.

(legal) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.

(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.

(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.

(computing) A task or program that is or was executing.

(transitive) to perform a particular process on a thing

(transitive) to retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.

Example: ‘We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.’;

(transitive) to think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.

To walk in a procession.

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

Example: ‘The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.’;

A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.

Example: ‘Tell her the process of Antonio's end.’;

A statement of events; a narrative.

Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.

The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; - a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.

a particular course of action intended to achieve a result;

Example: ‘the procedure of obtaining a driver's license’; ‘it was a process of trial and error’;

a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states;

Example: ‘events now in process’; ‘the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls’;

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;

Example: ‘the process of thinking’; ‘the cognitive operation of remembering’;

a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant

a mental process that you are not directly aware of;

Example: ‘the process of denial’;

a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant;

Example: ‘a bony process’;

deal with in a routine way;

Example: ‘I'll handle that one’; ‘process a loan’; ‘process the applicants’;

subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition;

Example: ‘process cheese’; ‘process hair’; ‘treat the water so it can be drunk’; ‘treat the lawn with chemicals’; ‘treat an oil spill’;

perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information;

Example: ‘The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech’;

institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;

Example: ‘He was warned that the district attorney would process him’; ‘She actioned the company for discrimination’;

shape, form, or improve a material;

Example: ‘work stone into tools’; ‘process iron’; ‘work the metal’;

deliver a warrant or summons to someone;

Example: ‘He was processed by the sheriff’;

march in a procession;

Example: ‘They processed into the dining room’;