intensive
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sɪv adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or characterized by intensity: intensive questioning.
2.
tending to intensify; intensifying.
3.
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.”
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| —adj | |
| 1. | involving the maximum use of land, time, or some other resource: intensive agriculture; an intensive course |
| 2. | (usually in combination) using one factor of production proportionately more than others, as specified: capital-intensive; labour-intensive |
| 3. | agriculture Compare extensive involving or farmed using large amounts of capital or labour to increase production from a particular area |
| 4. | denoting or relating to a grammatical intensifier |
| 5. | denoting or belonging to a class of pronouns used to emphasize a noun or personal pronoun, such as himself in the sentence John himself did it. In English, intensive pronouns are identical in form with reflexive pronouns |
| 6. | of or relating to intension |
| 7. | physics Compare extensive of or relating to a local property, measurement, etc, that is independent of the extent of the system |
| —n | |
| 8. | an intensifier or intensive pronoun or grammatical construction |
| in'tensively | |
| —adv | |
| in'tensiveness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
It would also tend to be more labor-intensive and less fuel-intensive, important since fuel will now get scarcer forever.
Making paper is an emission-intensive process on its own.
Current methods for removing nitrate wastes from ground-water are energy-intensive, expensive, and not always effective.
The goal of intensive insulin therapy is to keep blood glucose levels as close to normal as possible.
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