Modifying Another Word

• almost: With its array of shops, cafés and bars, it has an almost continental atmosphere.

• usually: Full board consists of breakfast ( usually continental ), lunch and dinner, half board is breakfast and dinner.

• distinctly: The Boatshed has a distinctly continental feel in keeping with its original heritage.

• even: Watch out for occasional markets, which may feature craft, Christmas or even continental themes.

• largely: On Figure 4 is pictured convergence between an oceanic plate and a largely continental plate.

• mostly: The histrionics of today's mostly continental players are a direct result of what began that summer of '74.

Preposition: with

• summer: In the interior of the country, the climate is continental with hot summers and cold, snowy winters.

Modifies a noun

• shelf: By contrast, the continental shelf off the UK is mostly less than 100 m deep.

• breakfast: A cooked or continental breakfast can be enjoyed in an elegant dining room.

• crust: The continental crust in the Himalayas is some 75 kilometers deep.

• drift: They wouldn't even need to wait for continental drift to form handy land bridges - they could just take a plane.

• margin: The oil industry is moving inexorably into deeper water along the continental margins.

• lithosphere: The topic was the continental lithosphere, especially cratons.

Used with adjective complement

• include: Prices for elsewhere, including continental Europe, can be by arrangement.