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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

... of "backyard farms," "Intensive gard'ning"—"how to raise All vegetables that you need On ten square feet in twenty days." We figure fortunes that six hens Will bring us—if we keep 'em penned; And yet, when farmers are the butt Of jokes, who ...

— With the Colors - Songs of the American Service • Everard Jack Appleton

... and a few thousand others like me represent not only an alternative way of life—all Suspendeds do that—but we possess more intensive knowledge for rehabilitating society after Central's collapse. That collapse may come much sooner than we've been expecting. When it does we're going to have enormous hordes of paras milling around, helplessly waiting ...

— Cerebrum • Albert Teichner

... The period of intensive chemical warfare may be regarded as the proof of the German experiment of 1915-1916. Shed of their trial nature, the chemical weapons played a logical and increasingly dominating part in the campaign. They were surely destined to play a much more prominent part had the period of ...

— by Victor LeFebure • J. Walker McSpadden

... shipbuilding, and other manufactures lessens the British import under these heads into Ireland, it will increase that of coal, iron, steel, and machinery. And Ireland, without trenching on the needs of her home market, is capable of much more intensive exploitation as a food-exporting country. Economically the two nations are joined in relations that ought to be relations of mutual profit, were they not eternally poisoned by political oppression. With this virus removed, the natural balance ...

— The Open Secret of Ireland • T. M. Kettle

... the Malays and so many savage tribes, afraid of the moonlight—the "luna-cy" danger in those strange color-strained rays, whose power must be greater than we realize. Beyond the monkey roosted Robert, the great macaw, wide-awake, watching me with all that broadside of intensive gaze of which only a parrot ...

— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe

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