Intensive
adjective
Involving a lot of effort or activity directed to something in a small amount of time.
She underwent intensive training for the marathon.
Often appears as...
- intensive care
- intensive treatment
adjective
Being in or requiring extreme care or a high amount of attention.
The patient is in intensive care now.
Often appears as...
- intensive care unit
- intensive monitoring
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Medical
adjective
Involving or using a lot of energy, strength, or concentration.
This is an intensive workout routine.
Often appears as...
- intensive labor
- intensive study
adjective
Relating to or denoting an agent or force excessively applied or acting within its field of power.
Chemicals with intensive properties such as acidity may cause harm.
Often appears as...
- intensive forces
- intensive properties
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Scientific
adjective
Involving a lot of effort or activity directed to something in a small amount of time.
She underwent intensive training for the marathon.
Often appears as...
- intensive care
- intensive treatment
adjective
Being in or requiring extreme care or a high amount of attention.
The patient is in intensive care now.
Often appears as...
- intensive care unit
- intensive monitoring
Usage tips
Medical
adjective
Involving or using a lot of energy, strength, or concentration.
This is an intensive workout routine.
Often appears as...
- intensive labor
- intensive study
adjective
Relating to or denoting an agent or force excessively applied or acting within its field of power.
Chemicals with intensive properties such as acidity may cause harm.
Often appears as...
- intensive forces
- intensive properties
Usage tips
Scientific
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Time Crunch
Used when time is limited and much has to be achieved; often associated with stress or urgency.
The team's intensive preparations before the project deadline created a lot of pressure.
Pro Tip 2/3Deep Focus
Implies a deep level of concentration or dedication towards a particular task or goal.
Learning a new language requires intensive study.
Pro Tip 3/3High Impact
Activities marked by 'intensive' are often pivotal and have significant outcomes or effects.
The intensive training session dramatically improved her athletic performance.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Crunch
Used when time is limited and much has to be achieved; often associated with stress or urgency.
The team's intensive preparations before the project deadline created a lot of pressure.
Pro Tip 2/3Deep Focus
Implies a deep level of concentration or dedication towards a particular task or goal.
Learning a new language requires intensive study.
Pro Tip 3/3High Impact
Activities marked by 'intensive' are often pivotal and have significant outcomes or effects.
The intensive training session dramatically improved her athletic performance.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Crunch
Used when time is limited and much has to be achieved; often associated with stress or urgency.
The team's intensive preparations before the project deadline created a lot of pressure.
Pro Tip 2/3Deep Focus
Implies a deep level of concentration or dedication towards a particular task or goal.
Learning a new language requires intensive study.
Pro Tip 3/3High Impact
Activities marked by 'intensive' are often pivotal and have significant outcomes or effects.
The intensive training session dramatically improved her athletic performance.
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The Atlantic slave...
The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land. American Natives were enslaved, but many died from new diseases, while others effectively resisted.
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Avoiding desertification...
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Chimps have feelings and...
have studied chimpanzees intensively for decades. We know the extraordinary cognitive capabilities that they have, and they also resemble the kind that human beings have. And so we chose chimpanzees, and we began to then canvass the world
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Peter Saul: Let's talk...
I was called down to the ward to see him. His is the little hand. I was called down to the ward to see him by a respiratory physician. He said, "Look, there's a guy down here. He's got pneumonia, and he looks like he needs intensive care.
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Beautiful Butterfly...
into one of those but in the long term we will have to produce food sustainably and government schemes are now encouraging farmers to restore intensively farmed land for wildlife farmland that encourages butterflies is
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Adorable Baby Animal...
this small intensive care unit with other rescued baby rhinos petronel is pleased with the progress he's making you know he at one stage will have to fight for territory so he needs to be strong in character he
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How your emotions change...
or an intensive lifestyle that included a low-fat vegetarian diet, moderate aerobic exercise, group psychosocial support and stress management advice. The researchers found that the lifestyle patients
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How the world’s tallest...
helped buildings shed weight, and stretch to new heights. But steel frames required intensive labor to produce, often under poor working conditions. And when they were finished,
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The power of vulnerabilit...
These are whole-hearted people, living from this deep sense of worthiness. So I wrote at the top of the manila folder, and I started looking at the data. In fact, I did it first in a four-day, very intensive data analysis, where I went back, pulled the interviews, the stories, pulled the incidents. What's the theme? What's the pattern?
Video examples
Meet the Super Cow PIPE...
cooking our babies right that's right without you when you look at this you you can't help thinking of lunch you know is it helping the animal you mean yeah what the animal is as healthy as another intensive producing animal so this is about the most technological that we can get not the most
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The Atlantic slave...
The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land. American Natives were enslaved, but many died from new diseases, while others effectively resisted.
Video examples
Avoiding desertification...
the difficulties has no one threat of the criticism seems to be that it comes from people who don't like the idea of a world that eats a lot of meat and you know your your holistic management allows for intensive grazing of cat how do you how do you frame that how do
Video examples
Chimps have feelings and...
have studied chimpanzees intensively for decades. We know the extraordinary cognitive capabilities that they have, and they also resemble the kind that human beings have. And so we chose chimpanzees, and we began to then canvass the world
Video examples
Peter Saul: Let's talk...
I was called down to the ward to see him. His is the little hand. I was called down to the ward to see him by a respiratory physician. He said, "Look, there's a guy down here. He's got pneumonia, and he looks like he needs intensive care.
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Beautiful Butterfly...
into one of those but in the long term we will have to produce food sustainably and government schemes are now encouraging farmers to restore intensively farmed land for wildlife farmland that encourages butterflies is
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Adorable Baby Animal...
this small intensive care unit with other rescued baby rhinos petronel is pleased with the progress he's making you know he at one stage will have to fight for territory so he needs to be strong in character he
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How your emotions change...
or an intensive lifestyle that included a low-fat vegetarian diet, moderate aerobic exercise, group psychosocial support and stress management advice. The researchers found that the lifestyle patients
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How the world’s tallest...
helped buildings shed weight, and stretch to new heights. But steel frames required intensive labor to produce, often under poor working conditions. And when they were finished,
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Peter Zumthor
Swiss Architect
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.
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Anoushka Shankar
British Musician
Some of the more intensive scrutiny when I was first starting out definitely used to be tough to handle; I was only a teenager, yet was being analysed in newspapers world over, often by people who already had a strong opinion about my privilege before hearing me play.
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Carrie Nugent
American Scientist
There's been a lot of really great intensive research into earthquakes, but we can't predict an earthquake down to the day. We can't predict where a hurricane is going to be a month in advance.
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Warren Christopher
American Statesman
We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Leader
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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Andre Villas-Boas
Portuguese Businessman
My passion for football makes me live it very intensively over 11 months and dedicate myself to that, but I think life allows you to enjoy other things.
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Charles Gwathmey
American Architect
My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.
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Javier Perez de Cuellar
Peruvian Diplomat
The patient is in intensive care but still alive.
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Jim Harrison
American Writer
Riesling? It smells like an intensive care ward.
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Harold Wilson
English Statesman
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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Peter Zumthor
Swiss Architect
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.
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Anoushka Shankar
British Musician
Some of the more intensive scrutiny when I was first starting out definitely used to be tough to handle; I was only a teenager, yet was being analysed in newspapers world over, often by people who already had a strong opinion about my privilege before hearing me play.
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Carrie Nugent
American Scientist
There's been a lot of really great intensive research into earthquakes, but we can't predict an earthquake down to the day. We can't predict where a hurricane is going to be a month in advance.
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Warren Christopher
American Statesman
We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Leader
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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Andre Villas-Boas
Portuguese Businessman
My passion for football makes me live it very intensively over 11 months and dedicate myself to that, but I think life allows you to enjoy other things.
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Charles Gwathmey
American Architect
My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.
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Javier Perez de Cuellar
Peruvian Diplomat
The patient is in intensive care but still alive.
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Jim Harrison
American Writer
Riesling? It smells like an intensive care ward.
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Harold Wilson
English Statesman
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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