单词	continental
释义	continentalcon‧ti‧nen‧tal /ˌkɒntəˈnentl◂ $ ˌkɑːn-/ ●●○ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The cafe serves continental style cuisine. The store is trying to expand into continental Europe. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS An and Ganschow have also added items to their already intriguing continental menu. Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins, plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines. It is very continental and it gives a great feel to the place. Ocean island and continental flood basalt occurrences represent different expressions of plume activity. Reliable walking guidebooks cover many of the most popular continental routes. She cast a regretful look at the big double bed with its luxurious continental quilt. The earthquake triggered submarine landslides that dislodged hundreds of cubic kilometers of sediment on the continental slope. word sets WORD SETS► Geography abyss, nounalluvial, adjectivealluvium, nounalpine, adjectiveAmerican, adjectiveAntarctica, anticyclone, nounarchipelago, nounArctic, adjectivearid, adjectiveAsia, atlas, nounatoll, nounAustralasia, Australasian, adjectiveAustralia, avalanche, nounaxis, nounbank, nounbarometer, nounbarrier reef, nounbasin, nounbay, nounbayou, nounbeach, nounbearing, nounbed, nounbight, nounbluff, nounborder, nounborder, verbborderland, nounborderline, nounborough, nounbox canyon, nounBritish, adjectivebutte, nouncanyon, nouncape, nouncapital, nouncardinal point, nounCaribbean, adjectivecartography, nouncay, nounchain, nounchaparral, nounchart, nounchasm, nounchimney, nounChinese, adjectivecirrus, nounCIS, nouncliff, nounclimate, nounclimatic, adjectivecoastal, adjectivecoastline, nouncockney, nouncol, nouncold front, nouncommuter belt, nouncompass, nounconfluence, nouncontinent, nouncontinental, adjectivecontinental shelf, nouncontour, nounconurbation, nouncoordinate, nouncorridor, nouncorrie, nouncoterminous, adjectivecouncil estate, nouncountry, nouncounty, nouncounty town, nouncourse, nouncove, nouncrag, nouncraggy, adjectivecreek, nouncrevasse, nouncrevice, nouncumulus, nouncyclone, noundateline, noundelta, noundesert, noundesert island, noundevelopment, noundistrict, noundivide, noundown, adverbdune, noundust bowl, nouneast, nouneast, adjectiveeast, adverbeastbound, adjectiveeasterly, adjectiveeasterly, nouneastern, adjectiveEasterner, nouneasternmost, adjectiveeastwards, adverbelevation, nouneminence, nounenvirons, nounequatorial, adjectiveerode, verberosion, nounescarpment, nounestuary, nounEurope, nounextraterritorial, adjectiveeyot, nounface, nounfarmland, nounfeeder, nounfiord, nounfirth, nounfjord, nounflood plain, nounfluvial, adjectivefrontier, nounfrontiersman, noungale force, adjectivegap, noungeo-, prefixgeography, noungeophysics, noungeopolitics, noungeyser, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, nounglacier, nounglobe, noungoldfield, noungorge, noungrassland, nounGrecian, adjectivegreen belt, noungrid, noungrotto, noungroundwater, noungulch, noungulf, noungully, nounhead, nounheadland, nounheadwaters, nounheartland, nounhemisphere, nounhighland, adjectivehighlands, nounhigh water mark, nounhinterland, nounHome Counties, the, homeland, nounhurricane, noun-i, suffixIberian, adjectiveiceberg, nounice cap, nounice floe, nounice pack, nounice sheet, nouninhabitant, nouninland, adjectiveinland, adverbinlet, nouninner city, nouninshore, adverbinsular, adjectiveintercontinental, adjectiveInternational Date Line, nounisland, nounisle, nounislet, nounisobar, nounIsraeli, adjectiveIsraeli, nounisthmus, nounItalian, adjectiveItalianate, adjectiveItalo-, prefixJapanese, adjectivekey, nounknoll, nounlagoon, nounlake, nounlandlocked, adjectivelandmass, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounlat., Latin, adjectiveLatin America, nounLatin American, adjectivelatitude, nounlevee, nounlittoral, nounlong., longitude, nounlongitudinal, adjectivelough, nounlowlands, nounlow-lying, adjectivelow water mark, nounmagnetic north, nounmagnetic pole, nounmarsh, nounmarshland, nounmeander, verbMediterranean, adjectiveMercator projection, nounmeridian, nounmesa, nounMiddle America, nounmidtown, adjectivemonsoon, nounmoorland, nounmorass, nounmountain, nounmountainside, nounmountaintop, nounmouth, nounmudslide, nounmull, nounnarrows, nounnavigation, nounNE, neck, nounnor'-, prefixnorth, nounnorth, adjectivenorth, adverbNorth America, nounnortheast, nounnortheast, adjectivenortheasterly, adjectivenortheastern, adjectivenortheastwards, adverbnortherly, adjectivenorthern, adjectivenortherner, nounnorthernmost, adjectivenorthwards, adverbnorthwest, nounnorthwest, adjectivenorthwesterly, adjectivenorthwestern, adjectivenorthwestwards, adverbnotch, nounNW, NZ, oasis, nounoccidental, nounocean, nounonshore, adjectiveopenness, nounOrdnance Survey map, nounoriental, adjectiveoutcrop, nounoverspill, nounpack ice, nounpaddy, nounpalisade, nounpan-, prefixpanhandle, nounparallel, nounpeak, nounpeninsula, nounPersian, adjectivephysical geography, nounplain, nounplateau, nounpoint, nounpolar, adjectivepole, nounpolitical geography, nounpollutant, nounpop., populate, verbpopulation, nounprairie, nounprecipice, nounprecipitation, nounPrime Meridian, principality, nounprojection, nounpromontory, nounprovince, nounprovincial, adjectivepueblo, nounR, rainfall, nounrain forest, nounrain gauge, nounrainstorm, nounrange, nounravine, nounreef, nounreference, nounregion, nounregional, adjectiverelief map, nounreservoir, nounresettle, verbresidential, adjectiveresource, nounridge, nounrift valley, nounrise, verbriver, nounriver basin, nounriver bed, nounRoman, adjectiverotation, nounrugged, adjectiverun-off, nounrural, adjectivesand, nounsand bar, nounsandstorm, nounsandy, adjectivesavanna, nounScandinavian, nounscar, nounscarp, nounscree, nounscrubland, nounSE, seaboard, nounsea breeze, nounseafront, nounsea level, nounseaport, nounseaward, adjectivesection, nounsemitropical, adjectiveshelf, nounslough, nounsmog, nounsnowfield, nounsource, nounsouth, nounsouth, adjectivesouth, adverbSouth America, adjectivesoutheast, nounsoutheast, adjectivesoutheasterly, adjectivesoutheastern, adjectivesoutheastwards, adverbsoutherly, adjectivesouthern, adjectivesouthernmost, adjectivesouthwards, adverbsouthwest, nounsouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivesouthwestern, adjectivesouthwestwards, adverbspeleology, nounspit, nounspur, nounstrait, nounsubcontinent, nounsubtropical, adjectivesuburb, nounsuburban, adjectivesummit, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbSW, swamp, nountableland, nounterrain, nounterritory, nountidal, adjectivetidal wave, nountidewater, nountime zone, nountop, nountopography, nountor, nountornado, nountown, nountown centre, nountowpath, nountrack, nountract, nountrade route, nountrail, nountransatlantic, adjectivetranscontinental, adjectivetributary, nountropic, nountropical, adjectivetundra, nountyphoon, nounUK, the, uncharted, adjectiveup, adverbup-country, adjectiveuplands, nounupper, adjectiveupriver, adverbupstate, adjectiveupstream, adverbuptown, adverburban, adjectiveurbanized, adjectiveurban renewal, nounurban sprawl, nounUS, the, adjectivevalley, nounW, warm front, nounwaste, adjectivewasteland, nounwater, verbwatercourse, nounwaterfall, nounwaterfront, nounwaterhole, nounwatering place, nounwater meadow, nounwatershed, nounwater table, nounwaterway, nounweather vane, nounwest, nounwest, adjectiveWest, nounwestern, adjectiveWesterner, nounwesternmost, adjectivewestward, adverbwilderness, nounwolds, nounzoning, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a continental breakfast (=coffee and bread with butter and jam)· Continental breakfast can be served in your room. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► breakfast · Room service is available for continental breakfast and daytime drinks and snacks.· A continental breakfast, with cheeses and meats, is served and dinner is four courses and consists of good home cooking.· The continental breakfast is supplemented by cheese and ham, and dinner is three courses.· Each voucher pays for a room with private bath or shower, continental breakfast, hotel service charges and taxes.· He did not like the continental breakfasts on offer. ► country · But the deepening recession in most continental countries is hitting sales across the Channel.· It is considerably worse than that in other continental countries. ► crust · Sumatra is composed of old, thick continental crust comprising volcanic rocks of Permian, Cretaceous and Cenozoic age.· Like a cracked china cup, the continental crust is still fragile where it has been damaged in the past.· Continental lithosphere stands higher than oceanic lithosphere because continental crust is both of greater thickness and lower density than oceanic crust.· The Supercontinent Cycle alone has left the continental crust riddled with the scars of former rifts and mergers.· The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.· The extent of subduction of continental crust below the Himalayas is also in dispute.· Subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate carrying continental crust gives rise to a continental-margin orogen.· Alternatively, subducted oceanic crust may be able to pull adjacent continental crust down into the asthenosphere. ► drift · He waxed vehement about dinosaurs and extinction, about continental drift and the good old Galapagos finch.· Once viewed as a relic, continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into the modern concept of plate tectonics.· Plate tectonics is not the same as continental drift.· We learn, too, that the great geophysicist, Sir Harold Jeffreys, refused to accept the evidence for continental drift.· Pollution is no longer simply a product of local industry; it often moves in continental drifts as weather patterns change.· An earth science example is the publication of Wegener's theory of continental drift in 1912.· So long as no viable cause for continental drift could be demonstrated, however, belief in it remained an act of faith. ► lithosphere · Oceanic lithosphere, however, is young and effectively of uniform age relative to continental lithosphere.· The heavy oceanic lithosphere descends into the mantle, beneath the lighter continental lithosphere.· Each of these areas of continental lithosphere are thought to have overridden regions of hot asthenosphere associated with former mid-oceanic spreading ridges. ► margin · Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins, plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.· Many continental margins are not separated by subduction zones from the divergent boundaries marked by mid-oceanic ridges.· It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins.· The sequence of continental-margin orogen development begins with the subduction of oceanic lithosphere at, or close to, a continental margin.· The first sections of the converging continental margins to collide suffer the most intense deformation.· The resulting orogen would be a modified continental margin type. ► neighbours · In this respect we compare very unfavourably with our continental neighbours.· Child care vouchers Britain seriously lags behind its continental neighbours in provision for child care for working parents.· Historically, she has laid much greater stress than her continental neighbours on sophisticated external examinations at the end of compulsory schooling. ► plate · In continental plate tectonics what seems static, the surface of the earth, is in reality in constant flux.· The geophysicist must probe deeper to look at the forces generated below the surface of the earth by the continental plates. ► shelf · The government has announced the opening of the first tender for exploration on its continental shelf.· This basin, called the Chicxulub crater, formed on the continental shelf in shallow water.· Most species of marine organism live on the continental shelf.· The southern component spreads over the continental shelf.· The shallow drilling programme is central to the systematic survey of the continental shelf.· Five more oilfields were producing oil from the North Sea continental shelf in 1976, including the massive Brent and Alpha fields.· The submarine extension of a continent is called the continental shelf. ► state · They also argued that their place in the world economy entitled them to special and separate treatment from the continental states. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the continental United States If 5 percent of the continental United States is covered by water, the rest might be covered by Willow Bay. On the back wall of the produce shed hangs a schoolroom map of the continental United States. Seattle sits on a fault caused by a plate sliding under the continental United States. ► continental Europe/Asia etc Word family WORD FAMILYadjectivecontinentalintercontinentaltranscontinentalnouncontinent 1a)the continental United States all the states of the US except Alaska and Hawaii b)continental Europe/Asia etc all the countries of Europe, Asia etc that are not on islands2relating to a large mass of land:  the warming-up of continental interiors3typical of the warmer countries in Western Europe:  a continental-style café4British English old-fashioned belonging to or in Europe, not including the British Isles:  continental holidays
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