亚洲网紅露点

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transcontinental

[ trans-kon-tn-en-tl ]

adjective

  1. passing or extending across a continent:

    a transcontinental railroad.

  2. on the other, or far, side of a continent.


transcontinental

/ 藢迟谤忙苍锄办蓲苍迟瑟藞苍蓻苍迟蓹濒 /

adjective

  1. crossing a continent
  2. on or from the far side of a continent
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藢迟谤补苍蝉肠辞苍迟颈藞苍别苍迟补濒濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 迟谤补苍蝉顎卌辞苍路迟颈路苍别苍顎僼补濒路濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of transcontinental1

An Americanism dating back to 1850鈥55; trans- + continental
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Example Sentences

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The Public Utilities Commission was created as the Railroad Commission in the late 1870s, after the completion of the transcontinental railroad.

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鈥淗arry Young鈥 made his way to Woodland, which had developed a busy Chinatown populated by immigrants who had come to work on the transcontinental railroad.

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To the south, its territory extends to Interstate 40, a major transcontinental trucking route; its 140-mile stretch from Barstow to Needles has no first responders stationed between the two cities.

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In 鈥淓uropapa,鈥 he raps about a transcontinental journey that is also tribute to his parents, who both died when Klein was young.

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In the mid-1800s, it was Chinese workers who built the western leg of the transcontinental railroad across the Sierra Nevada.

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