What's the difference between continental and mainland?
Continental
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a continent.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money.
(n.) A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a university student in the early 1980s and a political journalist for most of the 1990s and beyond, I was aware of the issues surrounding Britain's continental occupation.
(2) The other is a flamboyant showman who delights in peroxide mohicans and driving a variety of fast cars – most notably, perhaps, an army camouflage Bentley Continental GT.
(3) The management team gets changed, amid much hilarity when a continental breakfast of croissants and fruit is brought in.
(4) In a speech to Atlantic Bridge members in New York in November 2002, Fox warned "the natural desire to avoid conflict has been reinforced by an innate pacificism in many sections of western society, especially in continental Europe".
(5) If backloading is not approved, this "floor price" could mean that UK businesses pay more for their emissions than continental European competitors.
(6) Of the seven patients, six are fully continente day and night (two with CI and one with anticholinergic drugs) and one has a diurnal continence no more than two hours.
(7) The postneonatal mortality risk (28 to 364 days) was highest among continental Puerto Ricans (RR = 1.2) and lowest among Cuban-Americans (RR = 0.6).
(8) The character of intrapopulational chromosome polymorphism of continental and island populations of Apodemus peninsulae is discussed.
(9) Green was able to use new Civil Rights laws to challenge Continental Airlines in court, which had refused to hire him in 1957 even though (with 9 years of military training) he was the most qualified of a cohort of pilots they interviewed.
(10) In both studies, approximately 2,200 adults who had been selected from probability samples of households in the continental United States were interviewed.
(11) A geologist and native Texan, the patient had traveled extensively in south-central Texas, but not outside of the continental United States.
(12) Subsequently we have seen fewer tourists in continental Europe, particularly Chinese tourists”.
(13) The incident has cast an unflattering light on South Africa's ambitions to project itself as a continental power and raised questions about its support for Bozizé, a deeply unpopular figure who himself came to power in a coup a decade ago.
(14) But her comments at the Goldman Sachs event a month later go further in warning about the dangers to the British economy from businesses relocating to continental Europe.
(15) Two intravitreal Taenia cysts were removed intact by pars plana vitrectomy from a 59-year-old woman who had never left the continental United States.
(16) There have not yet been any cases reported of local transmission of the Zika virus in the continental US, but there have been 820 cases that were acquired from travel to areas with active Zika outbreaks or through sexual transmission.
(17) A variety of marine biota, including zooplankton, sargassum, surface plankton, squid, shrimp, and fish collected along the south Texas Outer Continental Shelf, were analyzed for Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb, Cr, Ni, Fe, and Mn.
(18) Demand also sank in other major continental markets, falling 14.5% in France, 13.9% in Spain and 4.9% in Italy.
(19) The FTSE finished the day at 5845, down 26 points, while continental stock markets also fell.
(20) These challenges include: declining demand for power in the UK, currently falling at 1% a year as energy-saving measures take effect; a three-fold jump in the UK’s interconnection capacity with continental Europe by 2022, massively increasing the country’s ability to import cheaper supplies; and “a litany of setbacks” in Finland, France and China for EdF’s European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) model, the same type as planned for Hinkley Point.
Mainland
Definition:
(n.) The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was shown that the patient was infected with the Australian mainland domestic strain.
(2) Although essentially all children tested were exposed to reoviruses, Mainland Cuna Indians had the highest geometric mean titers of antibody, followed by Chocó, Guaymi, and Island Cuna Indians in descending order.
(3) But – as Cameron's visit has shown – many activists on the mainland want foreign leaders to raise abuses, regardless of their own records.
(4) Using these new data, the prevalence of type 1 diabetes mellitus was estimated at 1.4% of patients on dialysis therapy in mainland France, and 5.5% for type 2 diabetes mellitus.
(5) Evidence suggests that among mainland-born decedents.
(6) I think, and many other scientists think, it could be quite an important meeting point for seals coming from mainland Europe because it’s one of most eastern sandbanks of its type.
(7) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) died young, had a public career for only 10 years, had no workshop, bequeathed no drawings and left no pupils, and the only places he travelled to outside mainland Italy were the Mediterranean speck of Malta and, briefly, Sicily.
(8) Moreover, they are the most complete crania of such great age discovered on the Asian mainland.
(9) She went on to deliver a stark warning that leaving the single market would deter international investors from Britain and lead major companies to question whether they should relocate to mainland Europe.
(10) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(11) To examine the background of excessive salt intake by the people who live in the northeastern district of the mainland of Japan, statistical analysis was carried out on salt consumption with nutritional status with data from the National Nutrition Survey of Japan and prefectural reports.
(12) He accuses the Labor party of "building the detention centre revolution" whilst in government and celebrates the recent announcement of six detention centres on the Australia mainland.
(13) Join a guided mud walk from the mainland to one of the islands off the coast.
(14) This would make it a credible threat to targets as far away as the US mainland.
(15) This level of susceptibility is higher than that found in most temperate countries and mainland populations, and similar to descriptions in a few island and rural populations in the tropics.
(16) Hagenbeck’s zoo would be a celebration of the German colonial project and its spoils, from German South-West Africa (present-day Namibia) to German East Africa (present-day Burundi, Rwanda and mainland Tanzania).
(17) Those stranded in Greece since detentions began in March sometimes pay smugglers to take them to the Greek mainland and then reach Macedonia on foot, since Macedonia’s new fence does not line the whole border.
(18) The former Australian Greens leaders Bob Brown and Christine Milne have written to Malcolm Turnbull’s government calling for remote firefighting assistance from the mainland.
(19) The rocky islets lie roughly equidistant between the Japanese and South Korean mainland in a stretch of water referred to as the East Sea by Koreans.
(20) The Ioannou family were originally fishermen, and still bring in the catch and cook it fresh to order • +30 22270 31487 Don't miss Just to the south of Limni is the monastery of Ayiou Nikolaou Galataki, set on the wooded slopes of the mountains overlooking the mainland.