(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).
Intercontinental
Definition:
(a.) Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings demonstrate that the Spanish and Cleveland isolates are clonally related and suggest that this antibiotic resistant clone of serotype 23F S. pneumoniae has spread intercontinentally from Spain to the United States.
(2) The top four qualify automatically for Russia with the fifth-ranked team going into an intercontinental playoff.
(3) Laboratories equipped with such devices could offer their services even on an intercontinental basis, in order to have a favourable cost-benefit ratio.
(4) Asked on ABC if North Korean development of an intercontinental missile would be a “red line” for Trump, Tillerson said: “If we judge that they have perfected that type of delivery system, then that becomes a very serious stage of their further development.” He added: “With no further testing, their programme does not progress and that’s what we’ve asked for before we can begin to have further talks with them.
(5) The steady growth of intercontinental travel is causing an increasing incidence of tropical diseases in Switzerland.
(6) Last month Russia announced it would re-introduce nuclear missile trains, allowing intercontinental ballistic missiles to be moved about the country by rail so they would be harder to target.
(7) "I looked up Intercontinental recently and they do 100m nights a year."
(8) InterContinental did sign up to the living wage, as Olympic sponsor, but no major retailer yet: Citizens UK before Christmas demonstrated at John Lewis which, despite soaring profits, still won't pay a living wage to outsourced cleaners , mainly migrants.
(9) The shift is a triumph for the Kremlin, which has long and vehemently argued that the shield is aimed at neutralising its intercontinental missiles; Moscow had warned of a return to a cold war arms race, and threatened to deploy nuclear missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave, surrounded by EU states.
(10) Repeating a charge he made earlier this week, Mullen said that, with Pakistani support, the Haqqanis were behind not only the 13 September embassy assault, but also a recent truck bomb that wounded 77 US soldiers, and a June 28 attack against the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, as well as "a host of other smaller but effective operations."
(11) In 1959, US intelligence estimates suggested that the USSR would be in possession of between 1,000 and 1,500 nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) compared to America’s paltry 100.
(12) An 11th Premier League medal is likely to join the PFA award in Giggs' trophy cabinet next month, to go alongside winner's medals from four FA Cups, two Champions Leagues, three League Cups, a Uefa Super Cup, an Intercontinental Cup and one Fifa Club World Cup.
(13) The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, in association with Intercontinental Medical Statistics conducted a General Practice Morbidity and Prescribing Survey from 1.4.69 to 31.12.74.
(14) Such megatrials could be performed as large international or even intercontinental trials.
(15) Two cases of venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism during or after intercontinental air travel occurring in two sisters with venous thromboembolic risk factors are presented.
(16) On Sunday, Washington postponed a planned intercontinental missile test, giving encouragement to observers who have urged a more moderate tone in recent days.
(17) Last year, the air force secretary, Deborah Lee James, announced that the Boeing VC25-A currently in use would be replaced by a Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental, which “when fully missionised… will meet the necessary capabilities established to execute the presidential support mission, while reflecting the office of the president of the United States of America consistent with the national public interest”.
(18) In addition to the embassy attack they are believed to have co-ordinated or supported a string of other deadly attacks including assaults on Kabul's high-end Serena and Intercontinental hotels, a bombing of the Indian embassy, and several kidnappings.
(19) The drinks conglomerate Diageo and Intercontinental Hotels Group come closest with 45.5% female directors.
(20) Updated at 2.46pm BST 2.37pm BST Van Gaal's silverware collection is an impressive one: Ajax Champions League: 1995 UEFA Cup: 1992 UEFA Super Cup: 1995 Eredivisie: 1994, 1995, 1996 Intercontinental Cup: 1995 Johan Cruyff Shield: 1993, 1994, 1995 KNVB-Beker: 1993 Barcelona Primera Division: 1998, 1999 Copa Del Rey: 1998 UEFA Super Cup: 1997 AZ Alkmaar Eredivisie: 2009 Bayern Munich Bundesliga: 2010 DFB-Pokal: 2010 DFB-Supercup: 2010 Other honours World Soccer Manager of the Year: 1995 Dutch Sports Coach of the Year: 2009 German Football Manager of the Year: 2010 2.35pm BST Ryan Giggs will be Van Gaal's No2 but there has been no word yet as to whether he will be retiring as a player .