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adjective

Intensive adj.

Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.

Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense. (Obs.)

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

(Agric.) 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.

noun

Intensive n. That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.

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"Intensive" Quotes from Famous Books

... men go down to the sea and sow their wild oats in the wicked ports, returning periodically, between voyages, to live the old intensive morality, to court till ten o'clock, to sit under the minister each Sunday, and to listen at home to the same stern precepts that the elders preached to them from the time they were laddies. Much they learned of women in the ends of the earth, these seafaring ...

— The Strength of the Strong • Jack London

... of the child naturally operates at the beginning with much more extensive, and therefore less intensive, notions than those of adults, with notions which the adult no longer forms. But the child does not, on that account, proceed illogically, although he does proceed awkwardly. Some ...

— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer

... some sections farms are being enlarged so as to permit the more extensive use of labour-saving machinery and the more economical handling of live stock, in other sections, particularly in counties adjacent to the Great Lakes, large farms are being cut up into smaller holdings and intensive production of fruits and vegetables is now the practice. This, of course, results in a steady increase in land values and is followed by an increase in rural population. The farmers of Ontario are putting forth every effort ...

— History of Farming in Ontario • C. C. James

... and continued for a year. Each camp lasted for three months, where during twelve hours a day the candidates for commissions, chiefly college graduates and young business men, were put through the most intensive drill and withering study. All told, more than eighty thousand commissions were granted through the camps, and the story of the battlefields proved at once the caliber of these amateur officers and the ...

— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour

... evidence to support our belief that it was during the brief period after Castro returned, probably late in 1590, and relieved Cobo of his executive responsibilities, and June 1592 when he left for Japan, that Cobo began intensive plans for the production of bilingual texts. His recorded interest in such books, his influence with the Chinese, his energy and his own linguistic aptitude would naturally have stimulated him to undertake the task. Whether he actually began ...

— Doctrina Christiana • Anonymous

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