Continuous /adjective/ (অবিচ্ছিন্ন / একটানা):
Continuous বলতে কোনোরকম বিরাম ছাড়াই কোনো কিছু সংগঠিত হওয়াকে বোঝায়।
The adjective continuous describes something that occurs over space or time without interruption.
Example:
- To live, we need continuous supply of Oxygen. (Continual নয়)
- The whole performance is enacted in one continuous movement.
- But the airport is no longer inactive during the afternoons as there is continuous movement of flights.
- A continuous series of blasts happened at Istanbul airport yesterday.
- People want to come visit, but mostly I refuse them, preserving my continuous silence.
Continual /adjective/ (অবিরাম / বারংবার):
Continual বলতে মাঝে মাঝে বিরাম দিয়ে দীর্ঘদিন ধরে কোনোকিছু সংগঠিত হওয়াকে বোঝায়।
Continual means forming a sequence in which the same action or event is repeated frequently.
Example:
- All classes have been postponed as a result of the continual conflicts between two political groups. (Continuous নয়)
- His plane went down after continual attacks.
- The continual missile attacks, which are now coming closer, have opened larger fissures in the glass.
- The Commonwealth forces, exhausted from continual air attack, pulled back.
- Fearing a tsunami, she spent the night in her car at the top of a nearby hill, feeling continual aftershocks.