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  2. 26. According to EtymOnline, the phrase continental breakfast is from 1911: 1818 as a purely geographical term, from continent + -al (1). In reference to the European mainland (as opposed to Great Britain), recorded from 1760. Continental breakfast (the kind eaten on the continent as opposed to the kind eaten in Britain) is from 1911.

  3. Pangaea is a hypothetical supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart during the Triassic and Jurassic Periods. An example of Pangaea is a massive continent that contained Eurasia, North America, India, Australia, Antarctica, Africa and South America. - https://www ...

  4. Is there a word for "a variety of breakfast foods"

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    In the UK there are two generally types of breakfast platter: "continental breakfast" is a bit like what you describe and common in hotels: a selection of cold, comparatively healthy things like yoghurts, fruit, ham, cheese, bread, tomatoes, cucumber, cold hard-boiled eggs, croissants, cereals etc. Then there's "cooked breakfast" aka "Full ...

  5. "Lunch" vs. "dinner" vs. "supper" — times and meanings?

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    Breakfast is a very early morning hot meal to start the day. Brunch became known as a combination late breakfast/early lunch. Lunch was solely the noonday meal. Tea time is the same as coffee time served with cake or cookies in the late afternoon. Supper is the main meal for a family at end of the day.

  6. As for time of day, my dialect has two sets of word. One refers to the clock and one refers to the sky. The set of words that refers to the clock is: midnight (exactly 12:00 am), morning (from 12:01 am to 11:59 am), noon (exactly 12:00 pm), afternoon (from 12:01 pm to 6:00 pm), evening (from 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm).

  7. 11. complimentary: free on the house - "With compliments from the house". complementary: to go with something. Share. Improve this answer. edited May 26, 2020 at 19:27. answered Mar 3, 2011 at 20:18. mplungjan. 30k 5 82 116.

  8. What is the single-word category name for such things as...

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    Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner are called Meals. Non-meal light food consumption is generally called Snacks even if you're eating something that would normally be a dessert item. - Hellion; Meals. the food served and eaten especially at one of the customary, regular occasions for taking food during the day, as breakfast, lunch, or supper.

  9. etymology - The origins and usages of "waffle" - English Language...

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    Merriam-Webster offers. intransitive verb 1: equivocate, vacillate “waffled on the important issues”; also : yo-yo, flip-flop “she waffled when asked what she thought of her sister's new boyfriend”. Origin of WAFFLE. frequentative of obsolete woff to yelp, of imitative origin First Known Use: 1868.

  10. Consist of means to be composed or made up of, while consist in means: To have the thing mentioned as the only or most important part. Tolerance consists in respecting other people’s opinions. Share. Improve this answer. edited Mar 19, 2012 at 0:59. answered Mar 19, 2012 at 0:53. Daniel. 57.8k 76 261 381.

  11. In Blansett v Continental Airlines Inc (2004) 379 F 3d 177 (US Court of Appeals), a passenger on a trans-Atlantic flight in June 2001 suffered DVT [deep vein thrombosis] which left him disabilitated. By that date many international carriers (it appears about half of them) provided passengers with information about DVT, but many, including ...