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单词 intensive
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intensiveadj.n.

Brit. /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtɛnsɪv/
Etymology: < French intensif, -ive (14–15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) = Italian intensivo , medieval or modern Latin intensīvus , < intens- , participial stem of intendĕre to stretch, strain: see intend n., intense adj. Late Latin had the parallel extensīvus extensive adj.
A. adj.
1. Of very high degree or force, vehement: = intense adj. 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective]
hardOE
heavyc1000
highOE
highlyOE
stourc1275
largec1330
intensec1400
violent1430
profoundc1450
vehementc1485
intensive1526
advanceda1533
vengeable1532
Herculean1602
well-advanced1602
deep1605
dense1732
abysmal1817
intensitive1835
holy1837
high-level1860
major1942
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. eiiiiv It shalbe to euery christen man or woman more intensyue & feruent, than is the naturall loue.
1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 225 It was strange to see what intensiue loue euery one did beare vs.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iii. iii. 263 A very intensiue pleasure followes the passion, or displeasure.
1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision viii. 27 Call yonder Planet, Mercury, Whom such intensive Heat Will not Evaporate.
2. Strenuously directed upon something (quot. 1605); strained, earnest, eager, intent; = intense adj. 3. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [adjective] > characterized by attention
studiousa1425
intensive1605
unwanderinga1864
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > of action: involving or requiring vigour > carried out or proceeding with vigour
stiffc1250
busyc1275
greatc1275
sternc1275
smart?a1400
stark1489
thronga1525
vigorous1524
stout1582
intensive1605
spiritful?1611
warm1627
intense1645
mettlesome1645
spirited1670
mettled1682
sturdy1697
energetic1700
vivid1702
robustful1800
toughish1840
lively1844
full out1920
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Mm2 Fascination is the power and act of Imagination, intensiue vpon other bodies, than the bodie of the Imaginant. View more context for this quotation
a1628 J. Preston Mount Ebal (1638) 5 It is nothing else but an intensive bending of the mind unto Christ.
a1639 H. Wotton Parallel betweene Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham (1641) 1 Being almost tyred..with that assiduous attendance, and intensive circumspection.
1671 A. Woodhead in tr. Life St. Teresa Pref. 12 Intensive thinking is tedious, and tires.
3.
a. Of, relating, or pertaining to intensity, or degree of intrinsic strength, depth, or fullness, as distinguished from external spatial extent or amount; of or pertaining to logical intension.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > degree or relative amount of a quality, action, etc. > [adjective]
intensive1604
gradational1842
gradal1872
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > of or relating to intensity of degree
intensive1604
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical classification > [adjective] > relating to logical intension
comprehensive1725
intensive1798
intensional1883
intensionalist1948
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 293 In every obiect of delight there is a certaine intensive goodnes and perfection, and there is an extensive.
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 61 The intensive infinity of the satisfaction for the sinnes of the world.
1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie i. i. 3 Concomitants, we may call, that almost illimited power, both Intensive, in sole Ordination; Jurisdiction..As also Extensive, over so vast a Diocesse.
1649 Jeanes Wks. Heaven on Earth in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxlv. 7 There must be an intensive greatness in our praises, in regard of the degree, fervour and heat of them.
1698 J. Keill Exam. Theory Earth (1734) 169 The part immerged of each Cylinder, bears the same proportion to the whole Cylinder, that the intensive gravity of the Cylinder bears to the intensive gravity of the Fluid.
1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 25 585 Were we endeavouring to characterize this work, in the dialect peculiar to Professor Kant, we should observe, that its intensive, like its extensive, magnitude is small.
1845 R. C. Trench Fitness Holy Script. iv. 69 The record of an intensive as well as extensive development.
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. xi. 442–3 In all phenomena the Real has intensive quantity or degree.
b. Having the quality or character of intensity.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > of or relating to intensity of degree > having the quality of intensity
intensive1836
high-level1860
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. vi. 231 Justice is an intensive exercise of holiness.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxiv. 100 Hearing is, however, much less extensive in its sphere of knowledge or perception than sight; but in the same proportion is its capacity of feeling or sensation more intensive.
1899 Q. Rev. Oct. 492 Friends whose reciprocal intensive criticism fanned each other's interest into flame.
4. Having the property of making intense; intensifying; esp. in Grammar, expressing intensity; giving force or emphasis; = intensative adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [adjective] > intensifying
intensive1608
enhancive1853
ascensive1857
intensative1872
elative1906
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [adjective] > intensifying > intensified
intensive1608
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 54 Aristophanes deriueth it from Alpha, an intensiue Particle, and Spizo which signifieth to extend.
1751 J. Harris Hermes i. xi. 199 These Comparatives..seem sometimes to part with their relative Nature, and only retain their intensive.
1820 Mair's Lat. Dict. 414 ..is sometimes intensive..and sometimes privative.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 448 (note) The τις is intensive.
5.
a. Economics. Applied to methods of cultivation, fishery, etc., which increase the productiveness of a given area: opposed to extensive in which the area of production is extended.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [adjective]
intensive1832
piscicultural1856
cultural1868
fish-cultural1872
maricultural1903
sea-farming1962
1832 T. Chalmers On Polit. Econ. x. 324 The removal..of the tithes, gives scope both to a more extensive and a more intensive agriculture.
1865 Times 15 Apr. Ruin stares in the face the occupier whose farm premises are inadequate to the requirements of an ‘intensive cultivation’.
1889 Nature 3 Oct. 558/2 The necessity for increased food productions calls for intensive methods.
1899 19th Cent. No. 264. 300 There is little probability of their escaping from being caught..on account of the intensive fishery.
b. Suffixed to nouns to form adjectives with the sense ‘intensively using the thing specified’, as capital-intensive, labour-intensive.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > of or relating to intensity of degree > using (something) intensively
intensive1957
1957 K. A. Wittfogel Oriental Despotism vi. 218 The replacement of labor-intensive irrigation farming by labor-extensive cattle breeding.
1959 Listener 22 Oct. 666/1 We have the highly capital-intensive process of textile manufacture.
1970 Times 2 June (Container Suppl.) p. iii/4 The latest sophisticated container systems add up to a capital-intensive system of some magnitude.
1972 Guardian 29 June 15/5 The developing world..is beginning to see the case for labour-intensive farming.
1973 Nature 6 Apr. 378/2 Economies of scale have been operating in capital-intensive and graduate-intensive industries like chemicals, oil, electric power, steel, and computers.
1973 Nature 6 Apr. 382/3 Intelligence-intensive biology would take its place alongside this intelligence-intensive cosmology.
6. Medicine. Applied to a method of inoculation in which the intensity or strength of the matter introduced is increased in successive operations.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > [adjective] > type of immunotherapy
intensive1888
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Sept. 4/2 He mistook the phials, and made the first inoculation with the intensive matter which should be used for the second.
1894 Lancet 3 Nov. 1049 A guinea-pig which had undergone ‘intensive treatment’ with Dr. Viquerat's serum had died ‘stuffed full of tubercle’.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 709.
7. Subject to intensification; characterized by being intensified.
ΚΠ
1888 J. T. Gulick in Linn. Soc. Jrnl. (Z.) XX. 197 A discussion of the principles of Intensive Segregation, under which name I class the different ways in which other principles combine with Segregation in producing Divergent Evolution.
8. intensive care: a form of medical treatment in which a patient is kept under concentrated and special observation; so intensive-care unit, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [noun] > intensive care
critical care1956
intensive care1963
1963 Lancet 19 Jan. 169/2 Our medical staff found the medical intensive-care unit so valuable that they requested..a separate surgical intensive-care unit.
1965 Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) i. 40 He felt that patient monitoring was essential in the operating theatre and the intensive-care unit.
1965 Listener 16 Sept. 401/1 We would like to see intensive-care units in all large modern hospitals.
1967 Spectator 11 Aug. 159/2 This method of dealing with a serious cardiac emergency..is known as intensive care.
1972 J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) ii. 14 Bart's at Trinity Hospital in intensive care, a single-bed room with a private nurse.
1973 J. Goodfield Courier to Peking x. 123 First, one of the general wards..and then to our new intensive care unit.
B. n.
Something that intensifies; spec. in Grammar an intensive word or prefix: see A. 4.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > that which intensifies
intensive1813
intensative1853
magnificative1875
intensitive1879
elative1906
intensifier1931
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase in intensity > one who or that which
redoubler1611
heightenera1656
intensifier1835
intensive1860
1813 W. Taylor Eng. Synonyms 38 Ætzen or ætschen is to eat into, to corrode; it is the intensive of the verb to eat.
1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 570 The use of mere sound as an accompaniment and intensive of sense.
1888 W. W. Skeat Etymol. Dict. at To- prefix Examples of the addition of al [= all] as an intensive, meaning ‘wholly’.
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