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SEQUEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
Synonyms:
continuation; sequel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sequel" is a kind of...):
addendum; postscript; supplement (textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Something that follows something else
Synonyms:
sequel; subsequence
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sequel" is a kind of...):
final result; outcome; result; resultant; termination (something that results)
Context examples:
It reminded me of our old acquaintance; it seemed the natural sequel of it; it showed me that he was unchanged; it relieved me of any uneasiness I might have felt, in comparing my merits with his, and measuring my claims upon his friendship by any equal standard; above all, it was a familiar, unrestrained, affectionate demeanour that he used towards no one else.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Had she not, with a folly which no tongue could express, prevented her marrying the unexceptionable young man who would have made her happy and respectable in the line of life to which she ought to belong—all would have been safe; none of this dreadful sequel would have been.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
After joining in general lamentations over the dreadful sequel of this event, which Elizabeth considered as all but certain, and Miss Bennet could not assert to be wholly impossible, the former continued the subject, by saying, But tell me all and everything about it which I have not already heard.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
EXAMPLE(S): decomposition (component), pre-condition, post-condition, sequel (replaces, modifies), attribution (cause and effect) In a Regulated Product Submission (RPS), support of versioning can be accomplished by having two different revisions of a document related to each other through a replaces relationship.
(Document Version Relationship, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
Although a fast flyby, New Horizons' Pluto encounter on July 14, 2015, will not be a replay of Voyager but more of a sequel and a reboot, with a new and more technologically advanced spacecraft and, more importantly, a new cast of characters.
(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)
I had thought he would hardly speak to me, and I was certain he had given up the pursuit of his matrimonial scheme: the sequel showed I was mistaken on both points.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
For this reason I will now lay before the reader the facts connected with Miss Violet Smith, the solitary cyclist of Charlington, and the curious sequel of our investigation, which culminated in unexpected tragedy.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sequel explained it.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I did not ask what she meant by "all being over," but I suppose she referred to the expected decease of her mother and the gloomy sequel of funeral rites.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
