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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intercontinental
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an intercontinental flight (=a flight that goes from one continent to another, for example from Europe to Asia)
▪ Passengers on intercontinental flights can reserve seats with extra legroom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Intercontinental trade between North and South America has increased.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even modest-sized nuclear explosions can have effects detectable over intercontinental distances.
▪ Geodesics on a spherical surface are the well known great circle routes which are frequently used by airlines on intercontinental flights.
▪ Last month Putin decided to retire silo-housed intercontinental ballistic missiles as their service lives expire.
▪ Similarly it was thought that the physical characteristics of certain plants had provided firm proof of intercontinental contact.
▪ The deal will eliminate heavy intercontinental missiles and multiple-warhead missiles, the most devastating weapons mankind has ever devised.
▪ The Western hemisphere would soon be in range of and vulnerable to Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, carrying megaton warheads.
▪ The Wyoming was carrying only nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intercontinental

Intercontinental \In`ter*con`ti*nen"tal\, a.

  1. Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce.

  2. Passing between continents or capable of passing between continents; as, an intercontinental ballistic misile; an intercontinental airplane flight.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intercontinental

1825, American English, from inter- + continental. Of missiles, from 1956.

Wiktionary
intercontinental

a. 1 Taking place between two or more continents. 2 Having the ability to travel between continents.

WordNet
intercontinental

adj. extending or taking place between or among continents; "intercontinental exploration"; "intercontinental flights" [ant: continental]

Wikipedia
InterContinental

InterContinental Hotels & Resorts has over 180 hotels, located in more than 60 countries across the globe. In operation for over 60 years, the Intercontinental brand is one of the world’s major luxury hotel and resort brands.

Intercontinental (album)

Intercontinental is an album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass, released in 1970. The album is a collection of mainly swing and Latin jazz standards with the exception of the country/pop hit "Ode to Billie Joe". A highlight of the album is Joe's Blues, a fine example of Joe's musical range, taste and splendid technique. Pass, a virtuoso solo performer, seems quite at ease within the guitar/bass/drums trio format. His signature chord melody style, interspersed seamlessly with bebop and swing single note lines, is heard throughout. Drummer Kenny Clare and bassist Eberhard Weber do a fine job respectively. (This album is notable as a rare example of Eberhard Weber playing straight ahead bass on covers of standards.)

Intercontinental (horse)

Intercontinental (foaled 2000 in England) is a Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who competed in England, France, and the United States.

Bred and raced by Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms, she was sired by Danehill, a multiple Champion sire in England, Ireland, and France and the most successful sire in the history of Australian Thoroughbred racing. Her dam was the outstanding broodmare Hasili, whose sire Kahyasi won the 1988 Irish and Epsom Derbys. Intercontinental is a full sister to Cacique, Banks Hill, and Champs Elysees.

Based in France with trainer André Fabre, Intercontinental made three starts at age two. She won two races and was third in the Group One Grand Critérium. At age three in 2003, she made six starts at racecourses in France and England. Her only win came in the Listed Prix Amandine for three-year-old fillies at Deauville-La Touques Racecourse. She notably ran third to winner Russian Rhythm in the Group One 1,000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse. 1

At age four, Intercontinental was sent to Robert Frankel, Juddmonte Farms' trainer in the United States. For the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer, Intercontinental began 2004 with a win in the Jenny Wiley Stakes 2 at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. She also won the Just A Game Breeders' Cup Handicap at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York and got her first Grade 1 win at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California in the Matriarch Stakes. 3

Usage examples of "intercontinental".

Several blocks past the landscaped magnificence of the Thai Intercontinental Hotel and the sprawl of a four-story shopping mall, the limo turned right and began making its way along the colorful turbulence of one of the dirty, crowded klongs, or canals, which had given Bangkok its reputation as the Venice of the Orient.

But such are the results of the barrier officially known as the Cordilleran Intercontinental Wall, but called by every newspaper after its originator, the Welling Wall.

Jonathan Matson of the Harold Matson Company, Abner Stein of the Abner Stein agency, Nicki Kennedy of the Intercontinental Literary Agency, and the folks at Tuttle-Mori Agency for taking care of the franchise around the world.

United States had more than 50 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 80 missiles on nuclear submarines, 90 missiles on stations overseas, 1,700 bombers capable of reaching the Soviet Union, 300 fighter-bombers on aircraft carriers, able to carry atomic weapons, and 1,000 land-based supersonic fighters able to carry atomic bombs.

We were parked two blocks away from the Intercontinental Hotel, using the shadows between the streetlights to conceal our presence in the dirty black Nissan 4x4.

The energy crises of the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries were ancient history now, but the inland airways were so cluttered with private flitterbugs and helicopters, and the zealots of Decivilization so enthusiastic to crusade against large areas of concrete, that the scope of commercial aviation was now reduced to intercontinental flights.

He flew in from London on TAROM Airlines two days ago, checked into the Intercontinental under the name of de Mendoza.

Dill observed, rather unexpectedly, that had TX worked out, it might have brought peace to the world and not annihilation, because it would have put an end to the doctrine of DEW ("distant early warning"), which was based on the interval of time between the firing of the offender's intercontinental rockets and their appearance on the defender's radar screens at the apogees of suborbital flight.

Although the journey between Amsterdam and The Hague was easily commutable daily, Sanglier took a suite at the Amstel Intercontinental.

Only three hours before, he'd supervised the fueling of all twelve of his CSS-4 intercontinental ballistic missiles, which had never hap­pened before in his memory.

Only three hours before, he'd supervised the fueling of all twelve of his CSS-4 intercontinental ballistic missiles, which had never happened before in his memory.

Cheap intercontinental transit has done its deadly work: all Earth is a crucible, all the gene pools have melted into one indistinguishable fluid.

Many folks speculated on what was in the hangar: Was it the still-unnamed B-1B supersonic intercontinental heavy bomber, getting ready to make its combat debut?

You've got a daughter in the University of California in Santa Barbara, right next to one of the biggest intercontinental ballistic missile bases in the world, the Vanderberry Air Force Base, a number one target for a hydrogen bomb.

I believe that if the B-1 mission has failed-and it has-the next step is either a cruise missile attack from long range, a naval strike force, or an intercontinental ballistic missile attack on Kavaznya.