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CONTINENTAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe
Example:
continental waters
Classified under:
Similar:
continent-wide (involving the entire continent)
transcontinental (spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent)
Antonym:
intercontinental (extending or taking place between or among continents)
Derivation:
continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of a continent
Example:
continental drift
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)
Derivation:
continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to or typical of Europe
Example:
a Continental breakfast
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Continent (the European mainland)
Derivation:
Continent (the European mainland)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War
Example:
the Continental Congress
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)
Context examples:
Or could these cyclones, each nearly as wide as the continental U.S., be more permanent fixtures?
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
Northwesterly winds allowed this warmer water to well up from the deep ocean onto the continental shelf in front of Marguerite Bay.
(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)
Previously unseen features include newly exposed continental connections across South America and Africa and new evidence for seafloor spreading ridges in the Gulf of Mexico.
(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)
Into this you will step, and you will reach Victoria in time for the Continental express.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
MistNet can "automate the processing of a massive dataset that has measured bird migration over the continental U.S. for over two decades," says Sheldon, who says this is a really important advance.
(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)
In addition to the photos, the atlas will include written descriptions of affected people and will be searchable by phenotype (a person’s traits), syndrome, continental region of residence and genomic/molecular diagnosis.
(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)
Continental North America south of Mexico that is usually considered to comprise the present day countries of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
(Mesoamerica, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
Crystalline calcium carbonate found in ocean sediments, usually derived from continental weathering of carbonate rock.
(Detrital carbonate, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
It is always possible that she never reached London, or that she has passed through it, but the former is improbable, as, with their system of registration, it is not easy for foreigners to play tricks with the Continental police; and the latter is also unlikely, as these rogues could not hope to find any other place where it would be as easy to keep a person under restraint.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My scientific education having been somewhat neglected, I was unable to follow the whole argument, but it was evident that the English Professor had handled his subject in a very aggressive fashion, and had thoroughly annoyed his Continental colleagues.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
