1With extreme concentration or effort; very thoroughly or vigorously.
he worked intensively through the summer
the government campaigned intensively for foreign investment
Example sentencesExamples
The building was open to, and intensively used by, the entire populace.
Beethoven's sketches have been more intensively studied than those of any other composer.
To use the Internet intensively, faculty must attend to delivery management systems.
During his years in Paris, he experimented intensively with lithography.
The close theoretical kinship between painting and poetry has long been noted and intensively examined.
I studied intensively with a wonderful ballet teacher in Boston.
I always reflect long and intensively by myself in my quiet little house.
Maybe contemporary art will be studied more intensively.
The Agriculture Department has been intensively negotiating for years to reopen that market.
Some chief ministers ought to go through this paper very intensively.
1.1With the aim of achieving maximum agricultural production within a limited area.
the coastal lowlands are intensively cultivated
intensively farmed beef cattle are often fed high-grain diets
Example sentencesExamples
Pressure has been placed on New Zealand farms to farm more intensively in order to reduce costs.
The French countryside is still pastoral and not all of it is as intensively cultivated as ours.
Eleven years after the dairyman switched to become a learner of how to manage a herd on intensively managed pasture, he's much happier.
Some grass species can be harvested very intensively to achieve dairy-quality forage.
Irrigated wheat that is intensively managed is at greatest risk because the moisture necessary for infection is often supplied by the irrigation.
These innovations permit greater tracks of land to be farmed more intensively by fewer farmers.
Southeastern soils have been intensively cropped and are prone to drought and erosion.
We plant intensively, a new row each week, with high crop turnover.
Organic chickens are far more likely to contain the area's most common food poisoning bacteria than intensively reared birds, according to their research.
Using early planted spring cereal crops to control the effects of wind has been gaining popularity for intensively managed crops in recent years.
Definition of intensively in US English:
intensively
adverbɪnˈtɛnsəvliinˈtensəvlē
1With extreme concentration or effort; very thoroughly or vigorously.
he worked intensively through the summer
the government campaigned intensively for foreign investment
Example sentencesExamples
The building was open to, and intensively used by, the entire populace.
To use the Internet intensively, faculty must attend to delivery management systems.
I always reflect long and intensively by myself in my quiet little house.
I studied intensively with a wonderful ballet teacher in Boston.
The Agriculture Department has been intensively negotiating for years to reopen that market.
Maybe contemporary art will be studied more intensively.
Some chief ministers ought to go through this paper very intensively.
During his years in Paris, he experimented intensively with lithography.
The close theoretical kinship between painting and poetry has long been noted and intensively examined.
Beethoven's sketches have been more intensively studied than those of any other composer.
1.1With the aim of achieving maximum agricultural production within a limited area.
the coastal lowlands are intensively cultivated
intensively farmed beef cattle are often fed high-grain diets
Example sentencesExamples
The French countryside is still pastoral and not all of it is as intensively cultivated as ours.
These innovations permit greater tracks of land to be farmed more intensively by fewer farmers.
Pressure has been placed on New Zealand farms to farm more intensively in order to reduce costs.
Using early planted spring cereal crops to control the effects of wind has been gaining popularity for intensively managed crops in recent years.
Organic chickens are far more likely to contain the area's most common food poisoning bacteria than intensively reared birds, according to their research.
We plant intensively, a new row each week, with high crop turnover.
Eleven years after the dairyman switched to become a learner of how to manage a herd on intensively managed pasture, he's much happier.
Irrigated wheat that is intensively managed is at greatest risk because the moisture necessary for infection is often supplied by the irrigation.
Some grass species can be harvested very intensively to achieve dairy-quality forage.
Southeastern soils have been intensively cropped and are prone to drought and erosion.