continent

continent

1. joka pidättää virtsaa t. ulostetta

2. pidättyväinen (erit. seksistä)

Liittyvät sanat: mainland

Synonyymisanakirja

continent

puhdas, selibaatissa, pidättyväinen, Manner-Eurooppa, Afrikka, manner, mantere.

Rimmaavat sanat

continent rimmaa näiden kanssa:

management, understatement, establishment, vol-au-vent...

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Englannin sanakirja

continent (englanti > suomi)

1. maanosa, manner

continent englanniksi

1. puhekieltä land Land (as opposed to the water).

2. 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

The carkas with the streame was carried downe, / But th'head fell backeward on the continent.

3. puhekieltä A large contiguous landmass considered independent of its islands, peninsulas etc. Specifically, the Old World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa. See Continent the Continent.

4. Each of the main continuous land-masses on the earth's surface, now generally regarded as seven in number, including their related islands, continental shelf|continental shelves etc.

5. Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one's bodily needs or passions, especially sex, urination and/or defecation.

6. Shakespeare

Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.

7. 2009, (w), A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 119:

A celibate himself, he was of the opinion that marriage was something of a concession to human frailty, to save from fornication those who could not be continent, so it was better to marry than to burn with lust.

8. Not interrupted; connected; continuous.

a continent fever

9. Berrewood

The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disjoined by sea of all that coast.

10. puhekieltä Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.

Which is not tomb enough and continent/To hide the slain? (Shakespeare: Hamlet, 4.4.)

11. (l)

12. (inflection of)

13. (l) (gloss)

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