Antonym: insular. Similar words: intercontinental, transcontinental, continental divide, continent, incontinent, subcontinent, continence, contingent. Meaning: [‚kɒntɪ'nentl] adj. 1. of or pertaining to or typical of Europe 2. of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War 3. of or relating to or characteristic of a continent 4. being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe.
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31 Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins, plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.
32 The hardy pioneers were prospectors, crossing the rugged Continental Divide in their search for gold.
33 But the deepening recession in most continental countries is hitting sales across the Channel.
34 The extent of subduction of continental crust below the Himalayas is also in dispute.
35 The first sections of the converging continental margins to collide suffer the most intense deformation.
36 Subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate carrying continental crust gives rise to a continental-margin orogen.
37 Both men wore garlands of wild jasmine, sold to them by child hawkers who worked the front of the Continental.
38 Moreover, continental experience of a national curriculum suggests that once it is in place, achieving change is extremely difficult.
39 This would be expected from differences in the density and thickness of continental and oceanic crust.
40 Seattle sits on a fault caused by a plate sliding under the continental United States.
41 A lively tour of continental culture, seeking for signs of unity and predicting a grim future.
42 Breakfast is continental, whilst dinner is three courses from a set menu.
43 They ended with loss-making Continental involvement and directors said to be drawing two lots of salaries and dividends for the same service.
44 She is a Continental Airlines B747 first officer, based in Hawaii, with more than 20,000 hours.
45 But it seems it will take more than 1992 to set the Continental palate tingling to the tune of mushy peas.
46 Sumatra is composed of old, thick continental crust comprising volcanic rocks of Permian, Cretaceous and Cenozoic age.
47 The earlier notion that the lower continental crust is largely basaltic in composition has received little support from more recent studies.
48 Wide range of wines, whiskies and continental bottled beers. Real ale.
49 Pollution is no longer simply a product of local industry; it often moves in continental drifts as weather patterns change.
50 Extensive areas within continental platforms are formed of basement, a complex of metamorphic and igneous rocks of Palaeozic or Precambrian age.
51 The sequence of continental-margin orogen development begins with the subduction of oceanic lithosphere at, or close to, a continental margin.
52 In continental plate tectonics what seems static, the surface of the earth, is in reality in constant flux.
53 In just the past few weeks, Continental started offering double miles on flights to Florida. Sentencedict.com
54 Telling people that we met at the Continental has never seemed right, either.
55 Continental Assurance Company went into liquidation last month with estimated debts of £6.8m.
56 The two peaks in the distribution represent the continental platforms and the ocean basins.
57 Room service is available for continental breakfast and daytime drinks and snacks.
58 Above all, how would I learn to cope with the sub continental stare?
59 The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
60 Historically, she has laid much greater stress than her continental neighbours on sophisticated external examinations at the end of compulsory schooling.
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