transcontinental in English

adjective
1
(especially of a railroad line) crossing a continent.
The third and most challenging joint air defense undertaking of the 1950s was the construction of a transcontinental line along the 70th parallel about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
noun
1
a transcontinental railroad or train.

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1. But the savings disappear on transcontinental travel.

2. Therefore Turkey is a transcontinental country.

3. Big transcontinental enterprises jostle with one another for world markets.

4. The transcontinental pipeline that hit the news last year is only part of the project.

5. The first transcontinental railroad, we were taught to believe, was a huge government success.

6. Yogis seeking transcontinental bliss head these days to Mysore, the City of Palaces, in southern India.

7. The United States Government's land policy, transcontinental railway building and accelerate the development of the western.

8. It was in the middle of the Civil War that Lincoln built the Transcontinental Railroad.

9. But transcontinental status always brought a classical rush to the head of railroad companies.

10. He had deemed the TRANSCONTINENTAL a first-rater, and it paid a cent for ten words.

11. The government had long since perceived that the way west depended on the transcontinental railroad.

12. This time the men were imported as work crews to construct the first transcontinental railroad.

13. The high point in railroad building came with the construction of the first transcontinental system.

14. A computer programmer and an engineer were sitting next to each other on a transcontinental flight.

15. By 18 the first year after the completion of the transcontinental line, the figure was 69

16. Whereas occurrence of generalists is rather transcontinental, the adapted insects are differentiated according to the three regions.

17. The 707 has been used on domestic, transcontinental, and transatlantic flights, and for cargo and military applications.

18. Combined with the American transcontinental railroad completed six months earlier, it allowed the world to be circled in record time.

19. It was the first private airline in Uzbekistan and is owned by SRX Transcontinental (61%) and Igor Smirnov (39%).

20. Beira definition: a port in E Mozambique : terminus of a transcontinental railway from Lobito , Angola , Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

21. However, it made little progress on the transcontinental railway, and struggled to deal with the aftermath of the Panic of 1873.

22. Telegraph cables immediately went out to President Grant and around the country with the news that the transcontinental railroad had been completed.

23. William C. "Big Bill" Hopson He joined the U.S. airmail service on April 14, 1920, and helped set up the transcontinental airmail line.

24. Naps are clearly useful for some people, including shift workers, students, and anyone doing long-haul work, such as pilots on transcontinental runs.

25. (Comment Date Time, NCI Thesaurus) "Well, I've Collected from the Transcontinental," he said in an effort to shift the conversation to a more comfortable subject

26. The railway is often associated with the main transcontinental Russian line that connects hundreds of large and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia.

27. Abert's and Marcy's reports, together with Whipple's 1853 railroad survey report, indicated to federal officials that a route across Indian Territory was not viable for a transcontinental railroad

28. In recent years, Transcontinental became the leading printer in Canada and the country’s largest editor of consumer magazines and local and regional newspapers through a development plan focused on mergers and acquisitions as well as internal growth.

29. CUSTOMIZED OPTIONS In addition to the above leased aircraft we can arrange Aero Medical flights on Large Transport Airliner aircraft that are capable of non-stop transcontinental flights and can be configured for the highest VIP floor plan.

30. Featuring a cabin that is the same width as our flagship Global aircraft, this world-class transcontinental private jet provides maximum mobility—and serenity.The Bombardier Challenger 650 easily seats up to 11 passengers and boasts impressive performance and range.

31. Alcoholic Beverages are complimentary in premium cabins on all flights and in Economy Plus ® on premium transcontinental flights.In international premium cabins, a flight attendant will inform you of the available wine selections from our international premium cabin wine list.

32. The following is a list of sieges of Constantinople, a historic city located in an area which is today part of Istanbul, Turkey.The city was built on the land that links Europe to Asia through Bosporus and connects the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea.As a transcontinental city within the Silk Road, Constantinople had a strategic value for many empires and kingdoms who tried to conqueror it

33. PAnama (/ ˈ p æ n ə m ɑː / PAN-ə-mah, / p æ n ə ˈ m ɑː / pan-ə-MAH; Spanish: Panamá IPA: ()), officially the Republic of PAnama (Spanish: República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country in Central America and South America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south.