fluky or flukey; random, haphazard, casual, arbitrary, hit-or-miss; unexpected, unforeseen, unanticipated, unlooked-for; accidental, incidental, occasional, adventitious.
-n. 5. share, quota, portion, lot, allotment, allocation, percentage, piece of the action, Inf. cut; part, parcel; measure, ration; dole, dividend, pittance.
6. (all of troops) detachment; reinforcements, reserves.
7. group, body, company, complement; party, faction, movement; coterie, clique, set, band, Inf. bunch, Inf. team, Inf. crew, Inf. crowd.
8. likelihood, probability, eventuality; possibility, contingency; event, circumstance, occasion, situation, case, juncture, conjuncture. See - contingency (defs. 1-3).
continual, adj. 1. uninterrupted, unbroken, unceasing, incessant, ceaseless, continuous; unremitting, ongoing, nonstop, constant; endless, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, sempiternal, infinite, boundless, Inf. no end, interminable, illimitable.
2. frequent, regular, persistent, repeated, habitual; around-the-clock, day-in and day-out, dawn-to-dusk, at every turn.
continuance, n. 1. endurance, continuation, duration, lastingness, abidingness; permanence, constancy, perseverance, persistence; Inf. stay, staying power, stick-to-it-tiveness.
2. extension, prolongation, protraction, perpetuation; adjournment.
3. sequence, succession, addition, repetition; connection, concatenation.
continuation, n. 1. extension, prolongation, contin uance, perpetuation; line, sequence, continuity, succession, progression.
2. sequel, installment, addition, supplement, epilogue, postscript, appendix, peroration, Music, post-lude; tail, train, wake; round, suite, series, chain, course; scale, rank, file, row, string, range,
continue, v. 1. extend, keep on, endure, stick to; pursue, carry on, keep on, keep at, maintain course, go along; drag on, run on, wear on; be steadfast, persevere, persist.
2. resume, proceed, advance, further, add, pick up where one left off.
3. last, endure, survive, exist, remain, subsist, live on; be permanent, be constant, be durable.
4. abide, stay, rest, remain; tarry, linger, wait.
5. sustain, maintain, retain; prolong, protract, extend, perpetuate, preserve; support, uphold, bear up, hold up; follow up, stay on top of, stick with.
6. adjourn, postpone, delay, procrastinate; keep pending, carry over.
continuity, n. 1. continuousness, uninterruptedness, unbrokenness; connection, linkage, union, cohesion, whole, coherence, interrelatedness, interrelationship; flow, duration, contiguity, continuum.
2. continuation, perpetuity, constancy, persistence; protraction, prolongation, extension,
continuous, adj. 1. connected, entire, unbroken, uninterrupted; consecutive, progressive, serial, linear, successive.
2. ceaseless, unceasing, incessant, unremitting; endless, everlasting, eternal, sempiternal, interminable, infinite, boundless; ongoing, nonstop, constant, perennial, perpetual, continual,
contort, v. 1. twist, wrench, turn, wrest; bend out of shape, warp, deform, put out of shape, misshape, disfigure; distort, screw up, make faces, grimace, *^out, stick out one's lower lip, Fr. faire la moue; rithe, squirm, wriggle, wiggle.
