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单词 intercontinental
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Definition of intercontinental in English:

intercontinental

adjectiveˌɪntəkɒntɪˈnɛnt(ə)lˌɪn(t)ərˌkɑn(t)əˈnɛn(t)l
  • Relating to or travelling between continents.

    an intercontinental flight
    intercontinental ballistic missiles
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Of course, this also means affordable, private intercontinental ballistic missiles.
    • The fee charged by British Airways will be 20 euro, the same for European and intercontinental flights.
    • If they had intercontinental ballistic missiles and hydrogen bombs, they'd use those.
    • The proposed system is supposed to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles minutes after launch, while their rocket boosters are still burning.
    • In a fairly short time, it could have an intercontinental capability.
    • One way this could occur is with the development of intercontinental ballistic travel.
    • Well, it's interesting that the way space travel started was through intercontinental missiles and rockets and then we had the shuttle, which looked a bit more like a plane.
    • The world's fastest-growing intercontinental airline will initially launch three non-stop flights a week to the Seychelles.
    • An intercontinental ballistic missile has a range of more than 5,500 km.
    • History has shown it to be an ideal staging post for intercontinental trade.
    • It has 5,286 nuclear warheads and 2,922 intercontinental missiles.
    • It would have been hard to say otherwise of what is obviously an intercontinental epidemic.
    • On intercontinental flights that last as long as 20 hours, four pilots rotate with only one takeoff and one landing to hone their flying skills.
    • The prosecution told the jury the men ran the intercontinental smuggling operation along strict business lines.
    • Even the longest intercontinental flights are briefer than the incubation period of any human infectious disease.
    • Larger rockets to carry nuclear bombs on intercontinental flights were developed during the Cold War.
    • The speed of travel favours intercontinental spread of disease.
    • Two months later, she and he took separate intercontinental flights to Calcutta.
    • Airline travel has now supplanted travel in ocean liners as the principal means of intercontinental travel, and the same three class structure has asserted itself.
    • He has been driving a long time but only for about six months on intercontinental journeys.
    Synonyms
    global, international, world, universal, planetary, pandemic

Derivatives

  • intercontinentally

  • adverb
    • Perhaps he will write a memoir about his experience and tell us how an artist can survive intercontinentally, with all his universal linguistic gifts, tribal and singular.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The apparent inconsistency in its range intercontinentally has been noted above.
 
 

Definition of intercontinental in US English:

intercontinental

adjectiveˌɪn(t)ərˌkɑn(t)əˈnɛn(t)lˌin(t)ərˌkän(t)əˈnen(t)l
  • Relating to or traveling between continents.

    an intercontinental flight
    intercontinental ballistic missiles
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It has 5,286 nuclear warheads and 2,922 intercontinental missiles.
    • History has shown it to be an ideal staging post for intercontinental trade.
    • Larger rockets to carry nuclear bombs on intercontinental flights were developed during the Cold War.
    • Even the longest intercontinental flights are briefer than the incubation period of any human infectious disease.
    • Of course, this also means affordable, private intercontinental ballistic missiles.
    • He has been driving a long time but only for about six months on intercontinental journeys.
    • The proposed system is supposed to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles minutes after launch, while their rocket boosters are still burning.
    • The speed of travel favours intercontinental spread of disease.
    • In a fairly short time, it could have an intercontinental capability.
    • On intercontinental flights that last as long as 20 hours, four pilots rotate with only one takeoff and one landing to hone their flying skills.
    • The prosecution told the jury the men ran the intercontinental smuggling operation along strict business lines.
    • It would have been hard to say otherwise of what is obviously an intercontinental epidemic.
    • Airline travel has now supplanted travel in ocean liners as the principal means of intercontinental travel, and the same three class structure has asserted itself.
    • One way this could occur is with the development of intercontinental ballistic travel.
    • Two months later, she and he took separate intercontinental flights to Calcutta.
    • An intercontinental ballistic missile has a range of more than 5,500 km.
    • The world's fastest-growing intercontinental airline will initially launch three non-stop flights a week to the Seychelles.
    • The fee charged by British Airways will be 20 euro, the same for European and intercontinental flights.
    • If they had intercontinental ballistic missiles and hydrogen bombs, they'd use those.
    • Well, it's interesting that the way space travel started was through intercontinental missiles and rockets and then we had the shuttle, which looked a bit more like a plane.
    Synonyms
    global, international, world, universal, planetary, pandemic
 
 
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