单词 | intensive |
释义 | intensive/ɪnˈtɛnsɪv /adjective 1Concentrated on a single subject or into a short time; very thorough or vigorous: she undertook an intensive Arabic course eight days of intensive arms talks...
Synonyms thorough, in-depth, concentrated, rigorous, exhaustive, all-out, concerted, thoroughgoing; all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, comprehensive, complete, full, total, all-absorbing; serious, vigorous, strenuous, detailed, minute, close, meticulous, scrupulous, assiduous, conscientious, painstaking, methodical, careful, sedulous, elaborate, extensive, widespread, sweeping, searching, high-pressure, determined, resolute, persistent, insistent 1.1(Of agriculture) aiming to achieve maximum production within a limited area, especially by using chemical and technological aids: intensive farming less intensive, more environmentally friendly forms of farming...
1.2 [usually in combination] (Typically in business and economics) concentrating on or making much use of a specified thing: computer-intensive methods...
2 Grammar (Of an adjective, adverb, or particle) giving force or emphasis.Fernando Pereira emailed an anecdote about intensive use of eh. 3chiefly Physics Denoting a property which is measured in terms of intensity (e.g. concentration) rather than of extent (e.g. volume), and so is not simply increased by addition of one thing to another.Clearly, the intercept differences produced by the intensive properties were substantially smaller than those produced by spatial properties....
noun Grammar An intensive adjective, adverb, or particle; an intensifier.Particles are added, usually as completives and intensives, to two and three-syllable verbs of Latin origin: contract out, divide off/up, level off, measure off/out, select out, separate off/out....
UsageOn the difference between intensive and intense, see intense (usage). Derivativesintensiveness
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'vehement, intense'): from French intensif, -ive or medieval Latin intensivus, from intendere (see intend). Rhymes |
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