Sequel
['siːkw(ə)l] or ['sikwəl]
Definition
(noun.) a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it.
(noun.) something that follows something else.
Editor: Sweeney--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.
(n.) Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin.
(n.) Conclusion; inference.
Editor: Mamie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Continuation, succeeding part.[2]. Close, conclusion, termination, DÉNOUEMENT.[3]. Consequence, event, issue, upshot.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Event, result, consequence, conclusion,[See EVENT]
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Definition
n. that which follows the succeeding part: result consequence: (obs.) descendants: (Scots law) thirlage.
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Examples
- Mr Lammle, striking in here, proclaims aloud that there is a sequel to the story of the man from somewhere. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But I suspect it is the sequel of the story of the statues. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And so we were most happily disappointed to find in the sequel that the guide had even failed to rise to the magnitude of his subject. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The sequel showed the value of Edison's cautious method in starting the station by operating only a single unit at first. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I thus accounted to myself for her agitation; but this was not all, and the sequel revealed another excuse. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I shall, therefore, employ the sequel of this part, First, In removing some difficulties, concerning particular causes of these passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Besides, since yesterday I have experienced the excitement of a person to whom a tale has been half-told, and who is impatient to hear the sequel. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They possessed high ly developed systems of measuring, weighing, and counting--processes, which, as we shall see in the sequel, are essential to scientific thought. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- On the very day, however, before I left, an incident occurred which proved in the sequel to be of importance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If he had stepped back for a spring, taken a leap, and thrown himself in, it would have been no surprising sequel to the look. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The history of Europe, then, from 1815 to 1848 was, generally speaking, a sequel to the history of Europe from 1789 to 1814. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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