Continental
adjective
Connected with or belonging to a continent.
The continental climate can be very different from the coastal regions.
Often appears as...
- continental climate
- continental drift
adjective
A term to describe something that comes from mainland Europe.
The restaurant offers a wide variety of continental dishes.
Often appears as...
- continental food
- continental style
noun
A breakfast that typically includes bread, pastries, fruit, and coffee and is usually served in hotels and inns.
The hotel offers a complimentary continental breakfast every morning.
Often appears as...
- continental breakfast
- b&b continental
adjective
Relating to the American colonies during the Revolution.
The Continental Army was key in the victory of the colonies.
Often appears as...
- continental army
- continental congress
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Historical
adjective
Connected with or belonging to a continent.
The continental climate can be very different from the coastal regions.
Often appears as...
- continental climate
- continental drift
adjective
A term to describe something that comes from mainland Europe.
The restaurant offers a wide variety of continental dishes.
Often appears as...
- continental food
- continental style
noun
A breakfast that typically includes bread, pastries, fruit, and coffee and is usually served in hotels and inns.
The hotel offers a complimentary continental breakfast every morning.
Often appears as...
- continental breakfast
- b&b continental
adjective
Relating to the American colonies during the Revolution.
The Continental Army was key in the victory of the colonies.
Often appears as...
- continental army
- continental congress
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Historical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Climate Contrast
Used to highlight the stark differences in weather between inland and coastal areas.
I prefer the continental climate with its extreme seasons over the mild coastal weather.
Pro Tip 2/2Geological Term
Frequently used in earth sciences to discuss continental features or movements.
Students study continental drift to understand how the Earth's landmasses have changed.
Pro Tip 1/2Climate Contrast
Used to highlight the stark differences in weather between inland and coastal areas.
I prefer the continental climate with its extreme seasons over the mild coastal weather.
Pro Tip 2/2Geological Term
Frequently used in earth sciences to discuss continental features or movements.
Students study continental drift to understand how the Earth's landmasses have changed.
Pro Tip 1/2Climate Contrast
Used to highlight the stark differences in weather between inland and coastal areas.
I prefer the continental climate with its extreme seasons over the mild coastal weather.
Pro Tip 2/2Geological Term
Frequently used in earth sciences to discuss continental features or movements.
Students study continental drift to understand how the Earth's landmasses have changed.
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Watch the Total Solar...
actually much more common than this way they're just not common where people all right and they're especially not common where people are over and over and over again which is why for many people this really is a once-in-a-lifetime right expiry and this is amazing because everybody in America not the continental US yes but
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How pollution is...
and there are sensors that are mounted on the bottom that can tell us information about the surrounding water, such as temperature or dissolved oxygen. And then we can collect our seawater samples in these large bottles. So we start at the bottom, which can be over four kilometers deep just off our continental shelf,
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The mysterious microbes...
crashes into a continental plate. As this oceanic plate subducts or gets moved underneath this continental plate, things like water and carbon dioxide and other materials get squeezed out of it, like ringing a wet washcloth. So in this way, subduction zones are like portals into the deep earth,
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How One Brilliant Woman...
up and drifted apart over time he called this process continental drift and it went against all conventional thinking at the time may seem very unpopular amongst his peers it's a shame because he was absolutely right but it would take the work of a young cartographer called maurice art to help
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Why is Mount Everest so...
To understand how this towering formation was born, we have to peer deep into our planet's crust, where continental plates collide. The Earth's surface is like an armadillo's armor. Pieces of crust constantly move over, under, and around each other.
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
The only abrupt worldwide change would have been major asteroid impacts or volcanic super-eruptions. Apart from those brief traumas, nothing happens suddenly. The continental landmasses drifted around. Ice cover waxed and waned.
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How do you build a...
because this would be the last of the continental temples and would open the door for national and local temples to be built around the world. And the brief was deceptively simple and unique in the annals of
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Inside the new Old World...
stranger than fiction they are unlike any animals alive today our alien world is also home to huge river systems covering an area approaching the size of the continental United States giant
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How Penguins Adapt To...
or stranded offshore but penguins are hardy animals the real killer is what can happen the winds can drop the water calms and the super cold continental air quickly freezes the sea
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Jeremy Jackson: How we...
because it clears it away. And the habitat destruction is unbelievable. This is a photograph, a typical photograph, of what the continental shelves of the world look like.
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Watch the Total Solar...
actually much more common than this way they're just not common where people all right and they're especially not common where people are over and over and over again which is why for many people this really is a once-in-a-lifetime right expiry and this is amazing because everybody in America not the continental US yes but
Video examples
How pollution is...
and there are sensors that are mounted on the bottom that can tell us information about the surrounding water, such as temperature or dissolved oxygen. And then we can collect our seawater samples in these large bottles. So we start at the bottom, which can be over four kilometers deep just off our continental shelf,
Video examples
The mysterious microbes...
crashes into a continental plate. As this oceanic plate subducts or gets moved underneath this continental plate, things like water and carbon dioxide and other materials get squeezed out of it, like ringing a wet washcloth. So in this way, subduction zones are like portals into the deep earth,
Video examples
How One Brilliant Woman...
up and drifted apart over time he called this process continental drift and it went against all conventional thinking at the time may seem very unpopular amongst his peers it's a shame because he was absolutely right but it would take the work of a young cartographer called maurice art to help
Video examples
Why is Mount Everest so...
To understand how this towering formation was born, we have to peer deep into our planet's crust, where continental plates collide. The Earth's surface is like an armadillo's armor. Pieces of crust constantly move over, under, and around each other.
Video examples
Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
The only abrupt worldwide change would have been major asteroid impacts or volcanic super-eruptions. Apart from those brief traumas, nothing happens suddenly. The continental landmasses drifted around. Ice cover waxed and waned.
Video examples
How do you build a...
because this would be the last of the continental temples and would open the door for national and local temples to be built around the world. And the brief was deceptively simple and unique in the annals of
Video examples
Inside the new Old World...
stranger than fiction they are unlike any animals alive today our alien world is also home to huge river systems covering an area approaching the size of the continental United States giant
Video examples
How Penguins Adapt To...
or stranded offshore but penguins are hardy animals the real killer is what can happen the winds can drop the water calms and the super cold continental air quickly freezes the sea
Video examples
Jeremy Jackson: How we...
because it clears it away. And the habitat destruction is unbelievable. This is a photograph, a typical photograph, of what the continental shelves of the world look like.
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Mary Roach
American Author
My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
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Bruce Grobbelaar
Zimbabwean Athlete
I've always said Reina has the best distribution out of the continental 'keepers. His kicking out and throwing is absolutely superb. He might actually score from a kick one day, either out of his hands or he'll come 35 yards out and have a go at goal.
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Ali Bongo Ondimba
Gabonese Politician
We must be practical. Talking about trade and other nice things are more soothing to the ear than security. But it won't be until we have sufficient security against internal, regional, and continental threats that we can be sure of real development.
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Joseph Hume
Scottish Scientist
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
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Gouverneur Morris
American Statesman
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.
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Phil Neville
English Athlete
My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players.
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Roger Milla
Cameroonian Athlete
If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.
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David K. E. Bruce
American Diplomat
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.
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Giorgio Moroder
Italian Producer
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.
Quote examples
Mary Roach
American Author
My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse.
Quote examples
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
Quote examples
Bruce Grobbelaar
Zimbabwean Athlete
I've always said Reina has the best distribution out of the continental 'keepers. His kicking out and throwing is absolutely superb. He might actually score from a kick one day, either out of his hands or he'll come 35 yards out and have a go at goal.
Quote examples
Ali Bongo Ondimba
Gabonese Politician
We must be practical. Talking about trade and other nice things are more soothing to the ear than security. But it won't be until we have sufficient security against internal, regional, and continental threats that we can be sure of real development.
Quote examples
Joseph Hume
Scottish Scientist
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
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Gouverneur Morris
American Statesman
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.
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Phil Neville
English Athlete
My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players.
Quote examples
Roger Milla
Cameroonian Athlete
If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.
Quote examples
David K. E. Bruce
American Diplomat
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.
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Giorgio Moroder
Italian Producer
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.
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