What's the difference between archipelago and continent?

Archipelago


Definition:

  • (n.) The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.
  • (n.) Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a statement to the UN's general assembly last summer, Ramgoolam said: "The dismemberment of part of our territory, the Chagos archipelago – prior to independence – by the then colonial power, the United Kingdom, in clear breach of international law, leaves the process of decolonisation not only of Mauritius, but of Africa , incomplete."
  • (2) Bay of Bengal map The Mergui archipelago on the Thai-Myanmar border is one of the more secluded parts of the Bay.
  • (3) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
  • (4) New-Hebrides Condominium, an archipelago in the South Pacific, is a country with a special socio-political environment, due to the duality of its French-British regime.
  • (5) Shelters in Denmark's Funen archipelago Along with my guide, Jakob, I was on the Danish island of Tåsinge, part of the South Funen archipelago that lies just south of Fyn, the large island sandwiched between the Jutland peninsula and Zealand (which hosts Copenhagen).
  • (6) Meanwhile volumes two and three of The Gulag Archipelago appeared to less public acclaim than volume one, but confirmed the uniqueness and immensity of that vast enterprise.
  • (7) Everything changed last September when a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coastguard ship near the Senkaku islands, an uninhabited but disputed archipelago.
  • (8) David Connell Senior research fellow, UK Innovation Research Centre, University of Cambridge, and Chairman, Archipelago Technology • I hope the new £61m National Graphene Institute at Manchester will reap some rewards ( Letters , 5 December).
  • (9) Pentecost largely escaped the severe damage inflicted on much of the archipelago by the cyclone, he said.
  • (10) Vanuatu disaster: follow the Guardian's reporter on the ground in the wake of cyclone Pam Read more Little is still known of conditions on the ground in outlying islands after Pam wiped out the archipelago’s wider telecommunications network.
  • (11) Wednesday's demonstration flight was mostly carrying representatives from Indonesian airlines, which are rapidly expanding to serve a burgeoning middle class in the sprawling archipelago where air travel between islands is a quicker alternative to ferries.
  • (12) Indonesia is an archipelago, the largest in the world, stretching 3,200 miles from east to west.
  • (13) The author gives the results of an entomological survey in neo-caledonian archipelago (New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands), november-december 1972.
  • (14) Drosophila differens, endemic to Molokai, Drosophila planitibia of Maui, and Drosophila silvestris and Drosophila heteroneura from the island of Hawaii are chromosomally homosequential species that presumably have colonized the newer islands of the Hawaiian archipelago by sequential founder events.
  • (15) The coast guard in southern Japan's Okinawa prefecture said nine or 10 activists had made an unauthorised landing on Uotsuri Island, part of the small archipelago known in Japan as Senkaku and in China as Diaoyu.
  • (16) Today the archipelago’s sparsely populated islands remain pristinely beautiful while some of its underwater landscapes present scenes of utter devastation.
  • (17) Autochthonous human samples of the three westernmost islands of the Canarian Archipelago, La Palma, Gomera, and Hierro, have been analyzed for eight red cell polymorphic enzymes.
  • (18) The thyroid function has been subject of study on a casual and significant sample consisting of 189 individuals living in Filicudi, Alicudi and Panarea, the smallest of the inhabited islands in the Eolian archipelago.
  • (19) This date fits with the geological history of the archipelago, which has witnessed the sequential rise and erosion of many islands during the past 70 million years.
  • (20) ID815996 The Swedish archipelago Facebook Twitter Pinterest A ferry arrives at Branno.

Continent


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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
  • (2) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
  • (3) The continence achieved in this case seems to be in contradiction to some of the accepted concepts of the mechanisms of continence.
  • (4) Piling refugees on trains in the hopes that they go far, far away brings back memories of the darkest period of our continent,” he told Der Spiegel.
  • (5) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
  • (6) Persistence in the treatment of these patients is essential because multiple operations often are necessary to achieve continence.
  • (7) Ninety-two per cent of patients who irrigated their colostomies gained fecal continence.
  • (8) To overcome the problem of incontinence which failed to respond to standard measures, an animal model was designed for continent diversion without cystectomy.
  • (9) Stress continence depends upon three factors: proximal urethral support, vesical neck closure, and urethral contractility.
  • (10) 12 children (38%) showed modifications of bladder-sphincter equilibrium, without acquiring socially sufficient continence.
  • (11) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
  • (12) She attributes her interest in helping the continent to a "better perspective" on life derived from Kabbalah.
  • (13) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
  • (14) Measurements have been made continously with an electrochemical cell sensitive to oxygen.
  • (15) About 53% of the continent’s total land mass is used for agriculture.
  • (16) The potassium concentrations in erythrocytes, serum and urine were continously determined in 3 patients who had taken acetyldigoxin (45 to 100 tablets Novodigal à 0,2 mg) in order to commit suicide.
  • (17) Besides first follow-up results of patients with bladder substitution or continent urinary diversion, analysis of experimental investigations and functionally comparable clinical conditions enables an insight into potential following physiopathological interrelationships.
  • (18) We conclude that the Kock continent urostomy offers an important alternative to noncontinent forms of diversion.
  • (19) On the basis of continence results from these patients, the influence of the primary operation on postoperative anorectal continence is discussed.
  • (20) Individuals undergoing delayed bladder closure without iliac osteotomy had no notable difference in the incidence of bladder dehiscence (p greater than 0.5) but they had a statistically significant difference in the ability to gain urinary continence (p less than 0.01).