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Definition: Extensively |
ExtensivelyAdverb1. In a widespread way; "oxidation ponds are extensively used for sewage treatment in the Midwest". 2. To a great extent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "extensively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Space | Adverb: extensively; Adjective: wherever; everywhere; far and near, far and wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land; under the sun, in every quarter; in all quarters, in all lands; here there and everywhere; from pole to pole, from China to Peru, from Indus to the pole, from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end; on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass; to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | She's a very sophisticated woman, and she has traveled extensively. She's been to Hawaii (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) I was in the water closet of the Bournemouth express when it quite unaccountably exploded, thereby extensively damaging the rest of the train (The Wrong Box; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Lloyd Osbourne) | |
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 | Cleanup of a sandy spit adjacent to Southwest Pass levee following oil spill. This area is used extensively as cattle pasture despite its inaccessibility from land. Cattle are brought in by barge. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Roles of geofabric cloth (white) and geogrid (black) on the beach. These materials were used extensively in the restoration. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Figure 13. Bouquet de la Grye sounder, invented by the French hydrographic engineer Anatole Bouquet de la Grye in 1869. The main point about this device was a new type of weight release mechanism, based on the action of spring released at the moment that the weight contacted the bottom. This method was used extensively on cable survey ships. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Acrylic painting of a pair of canvasbacks by Bruce Miller, 4365 Enchanted Point, Mound, MN 55364. Miller, a professional artist and avid outdoorsman, studied art at St. Cloud State University and has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the United States. He started painting wildlife in 1980 and took third place in the 1991 Federal Duck Stamp Contest. Other honors received in 1993 include being named Artist of the Year for both the Michigan Wildlife Art Festival in Detroit and the Wildlife and Western Art Show in Minneapolis. Miller also won the 1993 Minnesota Pheasant Habitat Stamp Contest and was commissioned to design the 1993 New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Virginia State Duck Stamps. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
 | Underway near Boston Light, Massachusetts, 6 January 1945. Photographed from a Squadron ZP-11 blimp. Completed in 1905 as the German passenger liner Amerika, this ship served as USS America during World War I. She was extensively modernized in 1942-1943. Credit: NAVY. |  | Empty cattle cars on siding at Willcox, Arizona. Ranching is extensively developed around Willcox. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Óbidos castle" by Luis Alves Commentary: "This castle was extensively restored after suffering severe damage in the 1755 earthquake, the mutitowered complex-one of the finest medieval castles in Portugal- displays both Arabic and Manueline elements. Parts of the castle have been used has a Hotel" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Sleep disorders have been classified extensively. (references) | |
Aspartame has been extensively tested for safety. (references) | ||
The effectiveness of these strategies has not been extensively evaluated. (references) | ||
Business | Furniture dealers that have big show rooms use the local newspapers extensively to promote their products. (references) | |
Emphasis is placed on both the private and the public sector to employ information technology extensively. (references) | ||
In comparison with EU, this import is extensively lower (USD 7 million), however the machines are less expensive. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | The Government and anti-Ahmadi religious groups have used this provision extensively to harass Ahmadis. (references) |
Bulgaria | Parliament deliberated extensively during the year on a proposed law that would regulate religious organizations. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | The citizenship issue was debated extensively during the year, and many citizens challenged the citizenship of other Ivoirians. (references) | |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Rice, the staple cereal, is cultivated extensively. (references) |
Somalia | Arabic, English, and Italian also are used extensively. (references) | |
Thailand | The national AMC has been reviewed extensively, and analysts are divided. (references) | |
Human Rights | Dominican Republic | His neighborhood, the El Capotillo barrio, extensively protested the shooting. (references) |
Burma | The military Government interferes extensively and arbitrarily in the lives of citizens. (references) | |
Malta | New detention cells, which were extensively refurbished and upgraded, are in use at police headquarters. (references) | |
Political Economy | REPUBLIC OF KOREA | Collective bargaining is practiced extensively in virtually all sectors of the Korean economy. (references) |
Canada | Laws extensively protect the well-being of workers and provide for workers' freedom of association. (references) | |
HONDURAS | The U.S. Embassy has worked extensively to assist these citizens, most of whose cases are being litigated in Honduran courts. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kuwait | The Assembly extensively amended many Amiri proposals in 2000 and during the year. (references) |
Singapore | Nonetheless, the opposition continued to criticize what it describes as the long-ruling PAP's abuse of its incumbency advantages to extensively handicap opposition parties. (references) | |
Algeria | The conduct of the campaign--although regulated as to the use of languages other than Arabic, and as to the timing, location, and duration of meetings--was free, and all candidates traveled extensively throughout the country. (references) | |
Trade | Brazil | The Manaus Free Trade Zone is the most extensively developed. (references) |
Malaysia | While EXIMBANK and SBA financing has not been used extensively in the past, it now is being used more frequently. (references) | |
Burma | Hondi is an extensively used illegal remittance system operated by unofficial moneychangers in and outside of Burma. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | Business cards are used extensively. (references) |
Honduras | Additionally, telex service is extensively used in Honduras. (references) | |
Bolivia | Although Aymara and Quechua are also spoken extensively, Spanish is understood in all but the most remote parts of Bolivia. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cuba | The Ministry of Agriculture used "voluntary labor" by student work brigades extensively in the farming sector. (references) |
Portugal | The Constitution provides for collective bargaining, and it is practiced extensively in the public and private sectors. (references) | |
Panama | Many children also are involved extensively in subsistence agriculture producing coffee and sugar; they work with their families or are employed by independent plantations. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Lawrence Lindsey | Oh, I don't think so. I mean, the Social Security commission was very explicit. They urged the Congress to debate this extensively for a year. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | But although the establishment of a permanent system of naval defense appears to be requisite, I am sensible it can not be formed so speedily and extensively as the present crisis demands. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The depressed state of our navigation is to be ascribed in a material degree to its exclusion from the colonial ports of the nation most extensively connected with us in commerce, and from the indirect operation of that exclusion. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | There has, indeed, rarely been a period in the history of civilized man in which the general condition of the Christian nations has been marked so extensively by peace and prosperity. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | I allude to the materials which this subject has afforded for sinister appeals to selfish feelings, and the opinion heretofore so extensively entertained of its adaptation to the purposes of personal ambition. |
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| "Extensively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Extensively" is used about 890 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 890 | 8,005 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "extensively": extensively-researched, extensively-travelled. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
extensively hawaii in koa used wood | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "extensively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | në mënyrë të gjerë, gjerësisht (at length, broadly, generally, popularly, widely). (various references) | |
Arabic | على نحو متسع. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разширено, обширно (spaciously). (various references) | |
Chinese | 广泛地. (various references) | |
Czech | znaènì (considerably, greatly, substantially), rozsáhle. (various references) | |
Finnish | laajalti (widely). (various references) | |
French | méthode très répandu, largement. (various references) | |
German | ausgiebig (affluent, extensive, rich, substantial, wealthy, well-off). (various references) | |
Greek | εκτεταμένα (vastly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | alaposan (exhaustively, heartily, hot, jolly, like old boots, profusely, radically, regularly, roundly, sorely, soundly, substantially, thoroughly, throughly, to be up in a subject, to talk sg out). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 広く (far and wide, universally, widely), 手広く (on an extensive scale, widely). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひろく (confidential papers, far and wide, secret notes, universally, widely), てびろく (on an extensive scale, widely). (various references) | |
Korean | 광대하게. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | extensivelyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | extensivamente, consideravelmente (considerably, pretty, quite, substantially). (various references) | |
Russian | широко (abroad, broadly, freely, sweepingly, wide, widely), во все стороны (right and left), пространно (amply, at large, large). (various references) | |
Scottish | ròram (dealing extensively with a family in provisions). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | obimno (amply, largely). (various references) | |
Spanish | extensivamente, extensamente (fully, wide, widely). (various references) | |
Swedish | utbrett (widespread). (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างกว้างขวาง (broadly). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaygın olarak, uzatılmış olarak, geniş olarak (broadly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | широко (abroad, amply, broad, broadly, loosely, open-mindedly, wide, widely), надто докладно. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | late. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "extensively": coextensively. (additional references) | |
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"Extensively" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: extensify, extensivelly, ostensively. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "extensively" (pronounced ikste"nsivlē) |
| 8 | -t e" n s i v l ē | intensively. |
| 7 | -e" n s i v l ē | comprehensively, defensively, expensively, inexpensively, offensively. |
| 5 | -s i v l ē | aggressively, cohesively, compulsively, conclusively, decisively, derisively, effusively, excessively, exclusively, explosively, impassively, impressively, impulsively, inconclusively, massively, obsessively, passively, persuasively, progressively, reflexively, successively. |
| 4 | -i v l ē | accumulatively, actively, administratively, affectively, affirmatively, alternatively, appreciatively, assertively, attentively, attractively, authoritatively, collectively, comparatively, competitively, consecutively, conservatively, constructively, cooperatively, creatively, cumulatively, deceptively, definitively, distinctively, effectively, exhaustively, figuratively, furtively, imaginatively, instinctively, intuitively, legislatively, negatively, objectively, positively, preemptively, productively, prohibitively, prospectively, protectively, provocatively, qualitatively, relatively, respectively, retroactively, retrospectively, seductively, selectively, sensitively, substantively, tentatively. |
| 3 | -v l ē | bravely, gravely, lively, lovely, naively, plaintively, quantitatively. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-l-n-s-t-v-x-y" | |
-2 letters: extensile, extensive. | |
-3 letters: enlistee, selenite, televise, veinlets. | |
-4 letters: eeliest, elevens, evenest, evilest, eyelets, lievest, lisente, setline, seventy, sextile, sixteen, steelie, stelene, syenite, sylvine, sylvite, telexes, tensely, tensile, tensive, veinlet, velites, vixenly, xylenes, yeelins. | |
-5 letters: eleven, elints, elites, enisle, enlist, ensile, envies, evenly, events, evites, exiles, exines, eyelet, ilexes, inlets, invest, ixtles, lenity, levees, levies. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-l-n-s-t-v-x-y" | |
+2 letters: coextensively. | |
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