continental

[US]/ˌkɒntɪˈnentl/
[UK]/ˌkɑːntɪˈnentl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. relating to a continent, having the characteristics of a continent, pertaining to the continent of Europe.

Phrases & Collocations

continental cuisine

continental breakfast

continental climate

continental shelf

continental margin

continental crust

continental europe

continental bridge

continental airlines

passive continental margin

continental slope

continental congress

continental divide

continental collision

continental plate

continental drift

continental army

continental block

Example Sentences

it is a pale imitation of continental cheeses.

A continental climate is different from an insular one.

oceanic lithosphere beneath an overriding continental plate.

the company is selling most of its continental commercial banking operations.

a fragment of continental crust which rifted away from eastern Australia.

Didot point system: A conventional system of type measurement used in continental Europe .

Evidence for continental drift: Marine geology, paleomagnetism, stratigraphic, paleoclimatic and paleontological evidence.

And the ICPC was consisted by international final contest and continental preelection contests.

chains of volcanoes running along the edge of continental land masses

Shanxi Formation is a set of paralic continental deposit,of which,fluvial,swamp and lacustrine facies alternatively presented regularly.

Sublittoral 1. (neritic) The marine zone extending from low tide to a depth of about 200m, usually to the edge of the continental shelf.

The Xiaorequanzi copper (zinc) deposit is situated in the south of a paleovolcanic domain in Haerlik-Danahu late Palaeozoic continental margin island.

Fewer people might wander down to the shops when it is unbearably hot but, unlike continental Europe, the UK has mostly been bearably hot.

We have just mentioned in the policy of " Weltpolitik " instead of " continental policy ." Attempt to England for world hegemony. Why Germany dare contest to the British empire .

The northern belt is made up of the lower continental mictite-clay rock combination of shallow-marine facies;

Volcanic rocks of Tamulangou-Jixiangfeng cycle in Late Jurassic are alkaline-subalkaline series, and they derived from upper-mantle and were contaminated by continental crust materials.

Abstract: Qinghai is a multi-ethnic-populated areas with the typical plateau continental climate such as drying, less rain, windiness, cold, long sunshine hours and so on.

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