Word Meanings - CONTINUATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay. 2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries

Additional info about word: CONTINUATION

1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay. 2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story. My continuation of the version of Statius. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTINUATION)

• Row
• Series
• order
• rank
• sequence
• continuation
• continuity
• file
• string
• concatenation
• thread

Related words: (words related to CONTINUATION)

• STRE
  Straw. Chaucer.
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• STRONTIAN
  Strontia.
• STROMATIC
  Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• STREPITORES
  A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• STRIATUM
  The corpus striatum.
• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• STROMATOLOGY
  The history of the formation of stratified rocks.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• STRUVITE
  A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.
• STRATEGIC; STRATEGICAL
  Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice. -- Stra*te"gic*al*ly, adv. Strategic line , a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point , any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• STRATUM
  A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively. 2. A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• STREPTOTHRIX
  A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.
• STRATOGRAPHY
  A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.
• STRAIGHT-OUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• PEDESTRIAN
  Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
• OSTROGOTHIC
  Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
• REGISTRANT
  One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark.
• ANCESTRY
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and