| 单词 | continuance |
| 释义 | continuance (once / 904 pages) n WORD FAMILY continuance: continuances+/continuation: continuations/continue: continuance, continuation, continued, continues, continuing, discontinue/continuing: continuingly/discontinuance: discontinuances/discontinuation: discontinuations/discontinue: discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinued, discontinues, discontinuing USAGE EXAMPLESSuperior Court Judge John A. Torribio asked Ghonim to sit and compose himself, before denying his request for a continuance. Los Angeles Times(Dec 19, 2016) However, he’s scheduled to face trial in April on a criminal contempt-of-court charge over his continuance of controversial immigration patrols. Washington Times(Dec 18, 2016) The justices faulted both sides in Ellison’s case for continuances that delayed his trial. Seattle Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1n the property of enduring or continuing in time Syn|Hyper duration time the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past 2n the act of continuing an activity without interruption Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper continuation discontinuance, discontinuation the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) lengthening, perpetuation, prolongation, protraction the act of prolonging something repeating, repetitionthe act of doing or performing again perseverance, perseveration, persistencethe act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior abidancethe act of abiding (enduring without yielding) prosecution, pursuancethe continuance of something begun with a view to its completion survivalsomething that survives custom, usage, usanceaccepted or habitual practice echolalia(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia) iterationdoing or saying again; a repeated performance redundancyrepetition of an act needlessly reduplication, reiterationthe act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) copyingan act of copying action replay, instant replay, replaythe immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape hangover, holdoversomething that has survived from the past renewalthe act of renewing replicationthe repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion activity any specific behavior 3n the period of time during which something continues Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper duration Regency the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity clocking the time taken to traverse a measured course longueura period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) residence timethe period of time spent in a particular place spanthe complete duration of something stint, stretchan unbroken period of time during which you do something time scalean arrangement of events used as a measure of duration note value, time value, value(music) the relative duration of a musical note rulethe duration of a monarch's or government's power attention spanthe length of time you can concentrate on some idea or activity extended time scale, slow time scale(simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is greater than one fast time scale(simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is less than one regencythe period of time during which a regent governs period, period of time, time period an amount of time |
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