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PRONUNCIATION OF PROTENSIVE

protensive  [prəʊˈtɛnsɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROTENSIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Protensive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PROTENSIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of protensive in the English dictionary

The definition of protensive in the dictionary is having duration.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROTENSIVE


apprehensive
ˌæprɪˈhɛnsɪv
coextensive
ˌkəʊɪkˈstɛnsɪv
comprehensive
ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪv
counteroffensive
ˈkaʊntərəˌfɛnsɪv
defensive
dɪˈfɛnsɪv
distensive
dɪsˈtɛnsɪv
energy-intensive
ˈɛnədʒɪɪnˈtɛnsɪv
expensive
ɪkˈspɛnsɪv
extensive
ɪkˈstɛnsɪv
hypotensive
ˌhaɪpəʊˈtɛnsɪv
inexpensive
ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪv
inoffensive
ˌɪnəˈfɛnsɪv
intensive
ɪnˈtɛnsɪv
normotensive
ˌnɔːməʊˈtɛnsɪv
offensive
əˈfɛnsɪv
ostensive
ɒˈstɛnsɪv
pensive
ˈpɛnsɪv
pretensive
prɪˈtɛnsɪv
suspensive
səˈspɛnsɪv
tensive
ˈtɛnsɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROTENSIVE

protein deficiency
proteinaceous
proteinase
proteinic
proteinous
proteinuria
protend
protense
protension
protensity
protensively
proteoclastic
proteoglycan
proteolyse
proteolysis
proteolytic
proteolytically
proteome
proteomic
proteomics

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROTENSIVE

ascensive
capital-intensive
charm offensive
exclusive
expansive
hyperresponsive
hypertensive
inapprehensive
incomprehensive
irresponsive
labour-intensive
misapprehensive
nonresponsive
on the defensive
peace offensive
prehensive
responsive
self-defensive
the offensive
unoffensive
unresponsive

Synonyms and antonyms of protensive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «protensive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROTENSIVE

Find out the translation of protensive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of protensive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «protensive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

protensive
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

protensive
570 millions of speakers

English

protensive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

protensive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

protensive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

protensive
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

protensive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

protensive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

protensive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Selamat bertahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

protensive
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

protensive
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

protensive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Protes
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

protensive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

protensive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आळशी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

protensive
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

protensive
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

protensive
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

protensive
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

protensive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

protensive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

protensive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

protensive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

protensive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of protensive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTENSIVE»

The term «protensive» is barely ever used and occupies the 201.319 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTENSIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about protensive

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROTENSIVE»

Discover the use of protensive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to protensive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pelicotetics, Or, The Science of Quantity: An Elementary ...
Def. of protensive or ditensive Multiplication. The direction marking factor ee. 315 394. Multiplication tests of equality 318 395. The addition subtraction and multiplication Laws the same for protensives or ditensives as for protensives .... 396.
Archibald Sandeman, 1868
2
Process Intensification: Engineering for Efficiency, ...
The earliest significant work on rotating discs as heat transfer devices was done initially at Newcastle University and then at Protensive Ltd, until recently a PI equipment manufacturer. The data given below from Protensive are important in  ...
David Reay, Colin Ramshaw, Adam Harvey, 2013
3
Lectures on Metaphysics
Time is either protensive or extensive or intensive; protensive insofar as one follows after the other. Extensive concerns the multitude of existing things at the same time; intensive concerns reality. Space occurs only with things, as appearances ...
Immanuel Kant, Karl Ameriks, Steve Naragon, 2001
4
Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as ...
Inspired by the work of the philosopher Edmund Husserl, I call these retensive and protensive conceptions.23 Retensive conception involves retaining awareness of previously realized material and reiterating it at some future point. Protensive ...
Edward W. Sarath, 2013
5
An elementary treatise on logic: including pt. I. Analysis ...
Three Dimen. tensive ; and (3) protensive. Quantity. (1.) Comprehensive, or Extensive Quantity, is the comprehensiveness of the sphere of the con- . comprehen. A A atve. ception. (2.) Intensive Quantity is measured by the amount of matter in ...
W. D. (William Dexter) Wilson, 1870
6
Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought
Consciousness has not only a retentive phase whereby each successive event flows from a previous event but also a protensive aspect. For example, in a musical composition, no individual note (or period of rest, for that matter) stands in ...
Christopher John Murray, 2004
7
Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice
... 126,136, 174,175 fore-structured 88 narrative confirmation of 67 past-informed 67 prefigurative 43, 44 protensive 86 psychological framework 49 recognition's prompting of 62 uncertainties 68, 71 protension 85, 86, 109 protensive projection  ...
Tony Wilson, 2009
8
Ethnographies of the Videogame: Gender, Narrative and Praxis
In other words, within these narratives of gaming are possibilities for change — perhaps the generative or protensive possibilities McNay (2000) acknowledges when she discusses the imagined elements of narrative. In turn, these imagined ...
Dr Helen Thornham, 2013
9
Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and ...
... ofa given novel morethanthey did thesame work when it was eventually published inbook form.Theirheightened enjoymentIser explains interms ofthe protensive tensionprovokedby the strategic interruption ofthenarrative at crucial moments.
Robert C. Allen, 2005
10
The Formless Self
I call this self- awareness a knowing of non-knowing because it is a knowing that comes about not as a refraction of the self bent into the self but only on a position that is, as it were, absolutely straightforward or protensive.9 By "protensive" ...
Joan Stambaugh, 1999

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROTENSIVE»

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Le bonheur n'est pas dans les statistiques
D'après le Kant, «le bonheur est la satisfaction de toutes nos inclinations (tant extensive, quant à leur variété, qu'intensive, quant au degré, et aussi protensive ... «Slate Afrique, Sep 11»

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