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.
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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121 The government has announced the opening of the first tender for exploration on its continental shelf.
122 He minted coins and his patronage of continental missionary activity is a noticeable feature of his reign.
123 The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
124 It is very continental and it gives a great feel to the place.
125 Prices range from $ 59 MondayThursday to $ 179 weekends and holidays. Continental breakfast weekdays; candlelight brunch weekends.
126 Like a cracked china cup, the continental crust is still fragile where it has been damaged in the past.
127 Most continental high mountain areas are well served by networks of mountain huts and refuges, usually offering dormitory accommodation.
128 Five more oilfields were producing oil from the North Sea continental shelf in 1976, including the massive Brent and Alpha fields.
129 The Continental Divide runs along the length of the Rocky Mountains.
130 On Thursday evening a Continental Airlines jet from Newark, went into a snowbank after turning on to a hard-packed taxiway.
131 Standard is selling most of its continental commercial banking operations to WestLB for ￡100m.
132 In this respect we compare very unfavourably with our continental neighbours.
133 Continental use Your policy covers you while you are using your car in any country defined in the territorial limits.
134 He may have seen the continental ice cap, raised by mirage.
135 The geophysicist must probe deeper to look at the forces generated below the surface of the earth by the continental plates.
136 An and Ganschow have also added items to their already intriguing continental menu.
137 The heavy oceanic lithosphere descends into the mantle, beneath the lighter continental lithosphere.
138 For instance, the company is attempting to bring Internet access to a mass consumer audience through an agreement with Continental Cablevision.
139 Child care vouchers Britain seriously lags behind its continental neighbours in provision for child care for working parents.
140 The Hanoverian monarchs were great patrons of the arts, and actively promoted the music of both native-born and Continental musicians.
141 The trains were fitted throughout with the Westinghouse brake, in accordance with Continental practice, and with steam-heating apparatus.
142 Oceanic lithosphere, however, is young and effectively of uniform age relative to continental lithosphere.
143 This basin, called the Chicxulub crater(Sentencedict), formed on the continental shelf in shallow water.
144 On the back wall of the produce shed hangs a schoolroom map of the continental United States.
145 It is just the sort of Continental charter that was despised by Dicey.
146 Although they are now inactive, these old regions of continental flood basalts are impressive because of the sheer quantity of lavas involved.
147 You have to keep in mind the trains here are descending from the Continental Divide and move quickly and quietly.
148 Interdependence was to be found at global, continental, regional or local levels.
149 Now with the introduction of a new continental landbridge fare Sealink anticipate a steady growth in freight carryings during 1991.
150 Many continental margins are not separated by subduction zones from the divergent boundaries marked by mid-oceanic ridges.
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