Antonym: extensive. Similar words: extensive, intensity, offensive, expensive, defensive, inexpensive, intense, apprehensive. Meaning: [ɪn'tensɪv] n. a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies. adj. 1. characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form 2. tending to give force or emphasis 3. of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor.
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211. Strangely enough, this question has not received intensive consideration in the literature of any major discipline.
212. Farming More intensive agriculture has led to increased concentrations of nitrate in groundwater in many areas.
213. It was discovered in the cardiac intensive care unit where 10 children were recovering from open-heart surgery.
214. We do not expect doctors to run an intensive care unit simply by measuring the pulse rates of their patients.
215. More complicated models for the simulation of cardiac arrhythmias are available for nurses specialising in intensive care work.
216. The difficulty here is that modern methods of farming are highly intensive and sometimes artificial.
217. Intensive negotiations are under way to try to prevent Mr Trimble from carrying out his threat.
218. Mr Dye is in intensive care with head injuries while Mr Nolan has chest injuries.
219. Environmental improvement would mean the closure of some labour intensive plants which could not be economically cleaned up, the company said.
220. We drove through one of the most intensive areas of banana cultivation on the way back.
221. Some natural sciences, confident of the uniformity of their objects of study, have adopted the intensive design.
222. The complex and intensive developments in this general field in the 1970s can be seen by taking this panel as an illustration.
223. This protocol differed from previous protocols, in that more intensive systemic antimetabolite therapy was given before and during radiotherapy. Sentencedict.com
224. Their intensive questioning, in fact, seems to coincide with two other developments in the lexicon.
225. For example, one cost centre may be highly mechanized whilst another may be labour intensive.
226. The concentration on intensive cotton and rice cultivation has led to a build-up of pollution from fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.
227. Last night Suzanne was critically ill in intensive care at Withington Hospital.
228. His contribution lay firstly in his intensive field research, quite novel by the standards of his time.
229. Applicability Intensive school-to-work experiences, such as apprenticeships, are not for every student.
230. After two days of intensive defensive-oriented workouts, the Celtics came out Wednesday night and again played appalling defense.
231. The report is the first of its kind and is the result of eighteen months of wide-ranging and intensive research and debate.
232. Infusion of 50 to 100 mEq per 12 hours requires very close monitoring, usually in an intensive care setting.
233. The brightest areas are those of intensive cultivation, and intermediate shades represent grassland and sugar beet.
234. With current trends emphasising the need for healthy hair, more and more women are including intensive conditioners in their haircare routine.
235. I had seen two of them in the intensive care unit during my tour.
236. A massive, intensive look at the schools, it came to the same conclusions.
237. Her son remained in guarded condition Monday in an intensive care unit.
238. Before the days of intensive quarrying, natural rock outcrops were of great significance.
239. Pat is working as a midwife in an intensive care unit for premature babies.
240. For the moment, Becky remains in intensive care, after falling from her horse on Saturday.
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