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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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... pretend to know just enough to keep his end up with Thos. J. Brown, who, disguised as a corporal, really runs the business. "Our Mr. Brown," as Ross calls him, is one of those nice old gentlemen who wear large spectacles and cultivate specialist knowledge on the intensive system. Owing to his infallibility in all details and upon all occasions he was much sought after in peace time by the larger commercial houses. When War broke out our Mr. Brown disdained peace. He made at once for the Front; but his aged legs, though encased in ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 27, 1917 • Various

... course, happen that several weak nations unite and form a superior combination in order to defeat a nation which in itself is stronger. This attempt will succeed for a time, but in the end the more intensive vitality will prevail. The allied opponents have the seeds of corruption in them, while the powerful nation gains from a temporary reverse a new strength which procures for it an ultimate victory over numerical superiority. The history of Germany is an eloquent ...

— Germany and the Next War • Friedrich von Bernhardi

... been said, it was by adopting this principle of self-intensive refrigeration that Professor Dewar was able to liquefy hydrogen. More recently the same result has been attained through use of the same principle by Professor Ramsay and Dr. Travers at University College, London, who are to be credited also with first publishing a detailed ...

— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams

... lot 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 ...

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

... regrettable that, with the great resources of the foundation, more explicit statistics concerning the movement could not have been compiled. It is this aspect of the subject which in consequence calls for further treatment. Without the scientific pretensions, therefore, of Mr. Epstein's intensive study of the Negro migrant or Dr. Woodson's historical survey, the book, as a capable popular treatment of the public questions and social issues involved in the recent migration of the Negro population, serves ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various

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