Continent
['kɒntɪnənt] or ['kɑntɪnənt]
Definition
(noun.) the European mainland; 'Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there'.
(noun.) one of the large landmasses of the earth; 'there are seven continents'; 'pioneers had to cross the continent on foot'.
(adj.) having control over urination and defecation .
Editor: Maureen--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
(a.) Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
(a.) Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
(a.) Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
(a.) That which contains anything; a receptacle.
(a.) One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.
Typed by Arlene
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Chaste, temperate.
n. Main land, great tract of land.
Edited by Eva
Definition
n. a large extent of land not broken up by seas: the mainland of Europe: one of the great divisions of the land surface of the globe.—adj. restraining the indulgence of pleasure esp. sexual: temperate: virtuous.—ns. Con′tinence Con′tinency the restraint imposed by a person upon his desires and passions: self-restraint in sexual indulgence often absolute: chastity.—adj. Continent′al characteristic of a continent as of climate &c.: pertaining to the European continent or to the colonies of North America at the period of independence.—n. Continent′alism anything peculiar to the usage of the Continent.—adv. Con′tinently.—Continental system the name given to Napoleon's plan for shutting out England from all commercial connection with Europe.
Editor: Megan
Examples
- Of the numerous other telegraph instruments that have been invented since 1837, that of Mr. Morse is in most general use, especially on the Continent and in America. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In effect, the voyage of the voice across the continent is instantaneous; if its speed should be accurately measured, a fifteenth of a second would probably be nearly exact. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Some of these he has left on the Continent, but he has brought with him to this house a cockatoo, two canary-birds, and a whole family of white mice. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mr. Moore began to tell us about the Continent, the war, and Bonaparte--subjects we were both fond of listening to. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In my reverie, methought I saw the continent of Europe, like a wide dream-land, far away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I suspect some imprudence of Mr. Franklin's on the Continent--with a woman or a debt at the bottom of it--had followed him to England. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The beginning was when he landed troops on this continent. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Inquiring after him at night, Mr Flintwinch found, with surprise, that he had paid his bill and gone back to the Continent by way of Calais. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He spoke to me a good deal of Fred Lamb, with whom he had been travelling on the Continent. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Had Dom Pedro lived to see the Panama-Pacific Exposition he might have listened to Professor Bell talking not merely from the other end of a room, but from the other side of a continent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Some of these formations, which are represented in England by thin beds, are thousands of feet in thickness on the Continent. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But answer me, said Baron Tuille, addressing himself to me, does the Duke of Leinster go to the continent this year? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Watson, in San Francisco, over a wire stretching 3,400 miles across the continent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the darkness Ursula made out the flat fields, the wet flat dreary darkness of the Continent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Lord George gave up his post on the European continent, and was gazetted to Brazil. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We have felt the fierce play of volcanic effort, lifting new continents of opportunity from the infertile sea, without any devastation of pre-existing fields of human toil and harvest. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Vapours from other continents arrived upon the wind, which curled and parted round him as he walked on. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The floras of distant continents would not by such means become mingled; but would remain as distinct as they now are. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Close pent-up guilt, Raise your concealing continents, and ask These dreadful summoners grace! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The nature and relative proportions of the inhabitants of oceanic islands are likewise opposed to the belief of their former continuity of continents. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Our continents seem to have been formed by a preponderance, during many oscillations of level, of the force of elevation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It was formerly believed that the same fresh-water species never existed on two continents distant from each other. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This likewise necessarily occurs with closely allied organisms, which inhabit distinct continents or islands. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Close wedded by that mystic cord, Her continents are one. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Editor: Megan