continue JUST WRITTEN FOR YOU
/kənˈtɪnjuː/ · con·tin·ue
noun
- An option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost. After his character died, he pressed the continue button to keep the adventure going.
- A statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements following it. The programmer inserted a continue to bypass the rest of the loop body when a condition was met.
verb
- To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity). Do you want me to continue to unload these boxes?
- To make last; to prolong. She continued the family tradition of holiday baking for decades.
- To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc. The board decided to continue the CEO on a temporary contract.
Did you know? The 'continue' statement was first introduced in the ALGOL 60 programming language, and it remains a fundamental control‑flow tool in most modern languages.