Difference between Continental and Transcontinental

CONTINENTAL vs TRANSCONTINENTAL: NOUN

A native or an inhabitant of a continent, specifically of the continent of Europe.
Someone from "the continent".
A piece of paper money issued by the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
A soldier in the American army during the American Revolution.
A native of the continental United States living or working in Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands.
An inhabitant of the mainland of Europe; a European.
An inhabitant of a continent.
A member of the Continental army.
Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war (hence the expression "not worth a continental")
In American history, a soldier of the regular army of the revolted colonies in the war of independence.
A piece of the Continental currency, paper money issued under authority of the Continental Congress. See Continental, a., 3.
A soldier in the Continental army. See continental, a., 3.

Of or relating to or characteristic of a continent
Of or pertaining to or typical of Europe
Of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the Revolutionary War
Of or relating to the mainland of Europe; European.
Of or relating to the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolution.
Used as an intensive.
Being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe
Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England.
Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.
See under Congress.
Characteristic of the style of continental Europe, as opposed to British.
In the main part of a country or region, as opposed to on one of its islands.
Of or relating to a continent or continents.
Of or pertaining to a continent.
The blockade of Great Britain ordered by Napoleon by the decree of Berlin, Nov. 21, 1806; the object being to strike a blow at the maritime and commercial supremacy of Great Britain, by cutting her off from all intercourse with the continent of Europe.

Relating or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a continent; entitled to be considered a continent.
Characteristic of a continent: opposed to insular: as, a continental climate. See below.
Specifically, of or belonging to the continent, as distinguished from adjacent islands, and especially to the continent of Europe: as, the continental press; the continental Sunday.
Inclined to favor a strengthening of the general government and an increase of unity among the colonies.

Across the continent; on the other side of a continent: as, a transcontinental journey; transcontinental railways.

Inland, Metropolitan, Pan, Onshore, Mainland, Subcontinent, Crustal, Seaboard, Hemispheric, African, Continents, Intercontinental, Continent, Continent wide, Transcontinental

Airmail, Nonstop, Westward, Rail, Interstate, Mainline, Overland, Intercity, Transpolar, Interurban, Transpacific, Transatlantic, Transnational, Intercontinental, Continental

Inland, Metropolitan, Pan, Onshore, Mainland, Subcontinent, Crustal, Seaboard, Hemispheric, African, Continents, Intercontinental, Continent, Continent wide, Transcontinental

Airmail, Nonstop, Westward, Rail, Interstate, Mainline, Overland, Intercity, Transpolar, Interurban, Transpacific, Transatlantic, Transnational, Intercontinental, Continental

One crisis was the socalled Newburgh Conspiracy, with its implied threat by Continental Army officers against the Continental Congress.
What Is a Continental Breakfast, and What Makes It Continental?
If the two plates involved in the process contain continental crust, it is called a continental collision.
Some large continental islands are broken off the main continental shelf, but still associated with the continent.
Continental and American legal systems, although the place of victims remains greater in the Continental tradition.
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Just as the Continental Army produced its own heroes, so did the newborn Continental Navy.
United States Continental Congress, Charles Thomson, John Dunlap, and Continental Congress Broadside Collection.
For Lufthansa, continental means: All continental European routes plus Casablanca and Marrakech.
The continental margin is made up three distinct landform types: the continental shelf; the continental slope; and the continental rise.

Sabu then made a transcontinental visit to the coast.
Transcontinental product, with lie flat suites in Business Class.
Even long transcontinental flights can be dirt cheap.
Lehmann Asks Supreme Court to Advance Transcontinental Case.
Enabling Act and the routes of transcontinental railways.
Great individual entertainment screen for long transcontinental flights.
The Transcontinental Railroad honors the history and technology of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Even before the transcontinental railroad from Omaha to Sacramento was completed, Congress authorized a second transcontinental railroad from Duluth to Seattle.
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Funding for three transcontinental railroads was enacted in the Transcontinental Railroad Act.