noun
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Form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built.
adjective
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Thorough; to a great degree; with intensity.
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Demanding; requiring a great amount of work etc.
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This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive.
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Highly concentrated.
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I took a three-day intensive course in finance.
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Stretched; allowing intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
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Characterized by persistence; intent; assiduous.
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(grammar) Serving to give force or emphasis.
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an intensive verb or preposition
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Related to the need to manage life-threatening conditions by means of sophisticated life support and monitoring.
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She was moved to the intensive-care unit of the hospital.
Examples of intensive in a Sentence
In the verbs there are causative, intensive or frequentative, and reciprocal forms.
Apart from mere watering, cultivation is in no way intensive.
Rich strips of alluvial soil, however, seam a cold clay-marl, needing intensive cultivation to become highly productive.
These areas have generally low biodiversity as a result of relatively intensive management.
They don't have to work in intensive care or acute orthopedic inpatients.
Intensive investigations are now ongoing to catch the man responsible for this brutal assault.
He/she may recommend a residential or intensive hospital alcohol rehab program.
Actor Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly's newborn twins are in the neonatal intensive care unit at Cedar's Sinai Medical Center.
Intensive farming methods, the type that most commercial and conventional farms use today, cause erosion of soil and destroy the natural habitat of many different species of animals.
Usually these intensive programs run for six-to-eight weeks.
Intensive compared with moderate blood pressure control did not affect the rate of progression of microalbuminuria to clinical proteinuria in the one available study.
The standards for the Institute register of practicing psychoanalysts are the most intensive and rigorous of any form of psychotherapy in the UK.
Road rage probe after crash A WOMAN had to be treated in intensive care at the weekend after an alleged road rage incident.
No doubt when he returns he'll be straight back into intensive rehearsals for the British Open with Black Dike!
They all indicate that intensive patient education is needed to promote adequate foot care, with an emphasis on continual reinforcement.
Transitions Dance Company offered me the opportunity to grow as a performer through the the intensive experience of creating and performing a varied repertory.
Intensive grazing of pasture and saltmarsh can create a sward that is too short for nesting skylarks.
Frequent and intensive training can also lower immunity and resistance to disease.
They may receive intensive chemotherapy, and in some cases autologous stem cell transplants, such treatments need very skilled nursing and medical care.
For the next fifteen years the school was an intensive psychotherapy unit for about forty primary-age children and twenty adults.
A specific residency might, for example, take the form of a series of intensive workshops.
When the aircraft failed to return an intensive search finally found the wreckage on the Isle of Grain, Kent the next day.
Against the first kind of argument, as formulated by Moses Mendelssohn, Kant advances the objection that, although we may deny the soul extensive quantity, division into parts, yet we cannot refuse to it intensive quantity, degrees of reality; and consequently its existence may be terminated not by decomposition, but by gradual diminution of its powers (or to use the term he coined for the purpose, by elanguescence).
Of the 33,104 farms in the state in 1900, 25,982 were farmed by their owners, 1373 by part owners, 314 by owners and tenants, 2424 by cash tenants, 2396 by share tenants, and 615 by managers; 637 farms had more than 500 acres, 3431 were between 260 and 500 acres, 5512 between 175 and 260 acres, 10,215 between 100 and 175 acres, 6513 between 50 and 100 acres, 3511 between 20 and 50 acres, and 3285 less than 20 acres; and dairy produce was the principal source of income of more than one-half of these (16,700), live stock the principal source of income of 7323 farms, and hay and grain of 2519 farms. The general sterility of the soil except along rivers and the bases of hills has made intensive cultivation always necessary, and the competition of new and rich western farm lands has made the agriculture of Vermont develop further toward specialization in dairying and raising live stock.
Even the earliest forms of intensive cultivation demand the practice of the fundamental processes of husbandry - ploughing, manuring, sowing, weeding, reaping.
It is more particularly in the part of this programme that relates to the internal policy of the papacy, to the subjection of the Church to the Curia, and to the intensive concentration of the ecclesiastical forces in the hands of the leader of Christendom, that Gregory went farthest in the execution of his plan and approached nearest the goal.
No doubt when he returns he'll be straight back into intensive rehearsals for the British Open with Black Dike !
There then followed six months of intensive training at Allahabad getting fit and rehearsing frontier warfare drills.
This is acutely problematic among elderly patients who are frequently unable to tolerate the rigors of more intensive treatment approaches.
Teaching for this consists mainly of intensive instruction in the rudiments of the language.
Snowshoeing, dogsledding, snowmobiling are easy to pick-up, others like cross-country skiing will involve more intensive instruction.
In the squalor of the intensive chicken house infections spread like wildfire.
As many researchers appreciate the banking process for human embryonic stem cell lines is labor intensive and time consuming.
Medical, surgical, trauma, neurological or mixed intensive care units, intermediary care units, or step-down units were allowed.
When his wife was in intensive care after the accident, Jim prayed for some divine intervention.
Generally, it's more difficult, more capital intensive and time consuming to scale a business-to-business model than a consumer one.
He may have been whisked off to the neonatal intensive care unit, and you weren't able to breastfeed or hold him.
The neonatal intensive care units in many hospitals have turned to infant massage as a means of comforting, calming, and also stimulating premature infants.
Kittens that are at least eight weeks old are not as labor intensive as puppies, but there are a few things that new cat owners should know about kitten care.
An interior design internship is much more intensive than other types of internships required by other professions and is carefully regulated.
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Depending on your costume, face makeup ideas for Halloween may be simplistic or intensive.
Feel free to experiment with your favorite shadow, but try to reserve the liquid formula for your base rather than an intensive accent color.
Intensive surveys may be worth as much as 10 or 25 dollars, but most will only be worth few dollars.
No downloading or intensive computer specifications are needed.
Some disadvantages of Aperture are its lack of compatibility with Windows, its price, and its need for intensive resources.
Classic southern cooking uses fewer processed food and is more labor intensive than its northern counterpart.