INTENSIVE
\ɪntˈɛnsɪv], \ɪntˈɛnsɪv], \ɪ_n_t_ˈɛ_n_s_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of INTENSIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
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characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form; "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor-intensive industry"
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of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor; "intensive agriculture"; "intensive conditions"
By Princeton University
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a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
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characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form; "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor-intensive industry"
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of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor; "intensive agriculture"; "intensive conditions"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
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Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense.
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Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb or preposition.
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That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.
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Designating, or pertaining to, any system of farming or horticulture, usually practiced on small pieces of land, in which the soil is thoroughly worked and fertilized so as to get as much return as possible; - opposed to extensive.
By Oddity Software
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Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
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Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense.
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Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb or preposition.
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That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.
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Designating, or pertaining to, any system of farming or horticulture, usually practiced on small pieces of land, in which the soil is thoroughly worked and fertilized so as to get as much return as possible; - opposed to extensive.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Intensively.
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Stretched: admitting of increase of degree: unremitted: serving to intensify: (gram.) giving force or emphasis.
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INTENSIVENESS.
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Something serving to give force or emphasis: specifically, in gram. an intensive particle, word, or phrase.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland