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continual
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adjective
occurring without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series
the continual banging of the shutters
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adjective
'continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with 'continuous' (meaning without interruption)
stops
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noun
a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card