continental : Idioms & Phrases
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continental army
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noun the American army during the American Revolution
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continental breakfast
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noun a breakfast that usually includes a roll and coffee or tea
petit dejeuner.
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Continental Congress
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noun the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation
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- . See under
Congress .
Webster 1913
continental divide
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noun the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico)
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continental drift
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noun the gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics)
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continental glacier
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noun a glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice
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continental plan
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noun a hotel plan that provides a continental breakfast daily
European plan.
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continental quilt
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noun a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider
eiderdown; duvet.
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continental shelf
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noun the relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent
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continental slope
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noun the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone
bathyal district; bathyal zone.
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Continental system
(Hist.) , the blockade of Great Britain ordered by Napoleon by the decree of Berlin, Nov. 21, 1806; the object being to strike a blow at the maritime and commercial supremacy of Great Britain, by cutting her off from all intercourse with the continent of Europe.
