continent

continent

englanti

1. joka pidättää virtsaa t. ulostetta

2. pidättyväinen (erit. seksistä)

Liittyvät sanat: mainland

Synonyymisanakirja: continent

continent

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

Katso synonyymisanakirja

Riimisanakirja: continent

continent rimmaa näiden kanssa:

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

Katso riimisanakirja

Käännökset: continent

continent suomeksi

manner, pidättyväinen, pidätyskykyinen

• maanosa, manner

continent englanniksi

Continent

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Shakespeare

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

• 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.

• Not interrupted; connected; continuous.

a continent fever

• 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.

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

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

• (l)

• (inflection of)

• (l) (gloss)

Katso continent englanniksi

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