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in⋅ten⋅sive

[in-ten-siv]

–adjective

1.	of, pertaining to, or characterized by intensity: intensive questioning.

2.	tending to intensify; intensifying.

Medicine/Medical.

a.	increasing in intensity or degree.

b.	instituting treatment to the limit of safety.

4.	noting or pertaining to a system of agriculture involving the cultivation of limited areas, and relying on the maximum use of labor and expenditures to raise the crop yield per unit area (opposed to extensive ).

5.	requiring or having a high concentration of a specified quality or element (used in combination): Coal mining is a labor-intensive industry.

6.	Grammar. indicating increased emphasis or force. Certainly is an intensive adverb. Myself in I did it myself is an intensive pronoun.

–noun

7.	something that intensifies.

8.	Grammar. an intensive element or formation, as -self in himself, or Latin -tō in iac-tō, “I hurl” from iacō, “I throw.”

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < ML intēnsīvus. See intense, -ive

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Language Translation for : intensive

Spanish:

intensivo,

German:

intensiv,

Japanese:

集中的な

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in·ten·sive (ĭn-těn'sĭv) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Of, relating to, or characterized by intensity: intensive training. See Usage Note at intense.
Grammar Tending to emphasize or intensify: an intensive adverb.
Possessing or requiring to a high degree. Often used in combination: research-intensive; labor-intensive.
Relating to or being a method especially of land cultivation intended to increase the productivity of a fixed area by means of an increase in capital and labor.
Physics Having the same value for any subdivision of a thermodynamic system: intensive pressure.

n. Grammar
A linguistic element, such as the adverb extremely or awfully, that provides force or emphasis. Also called intensifier.

in·ten'sive·ly adv., in·ten'sive·ness n.

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intensive
adjective
1.	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"
2.	tending to give force or emphasis; "an intensive adverb"
3.	of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor; "intensive agriculture"; "intensive conditions" [ant: extensive]
noun
1.	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" [syn: intensifier]

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Intensive

In*ten"sive\, a. [Cf. F. intensif. See Intense.]

1. Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified. --Sir M. Hale.

2. Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.

3. (Gram.) Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb or preposition.

Intensive

In*ten"sive\, n. That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.

Intensive

In*ten"tive\, a. [OE. ententif, OF. ententif, fr. L. intentivus intensive. See Intent, n., and cf. Intensive.] Attentive; intent. [Obs.] --Spenser.

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