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Meanings of retentive in английском
португальский
tenaz Синонимы
Examples for "long"
Examples for "long"
1
The menu read 'Hillsborough Castle'-thename 'Government House' had long since gone.
2
However, EU officials said that African migration presented the greater long-term concern.
3
Public health agencies need a better long-term solution for prevention: a vaccine.
4
However, media attention is never sustained long enough to ask such questions.
5
I've come a long way to hear your answer to that question.
1
S: And most surely he is tenacious in the love of wealth.
2
Thereafter he was to trust the silent and tenacious general through everything.
3
The Latin race has never been tenacious either in politics or commerce.
4
None of the animals of the Phoca genus are tenacious of life.
5
The cause of denominationalism is the tenacious clinging to faith and doctrines.
1
Our data thus demonstrate activations of a memory system independent of recollective experience.
2
Thaddeus felt the scene in his own recollective heart.
3
Marian and I made that all safe, Judy said, with a smile of recollective pleasure.
4
But in the unstoried solitudes of America, the traveller meets with nothing to awaken the sympathy of his recollective feelings.
5
I mention this because Dugald Stewart once was curious to know what sort of memory I had, whether recollective or retentive.
Usage of retentive in английском
1
This will give you an idea of the retentive memory she possesses.
2
The soil should be of a vegetable character and retentive of moisture.
3
The queen reads these accounts carefully and has a most retentive memory.
4
Walnuts will do well providing the soil or subsoil is retentive enough.
5
This is true, no matter how strong the retentive power may be.
6
He would repeat poetry by the hour, having a very retentive memory.
7
He had a very retentive memory for their troubles and their needs.
8
Henry, of the acute eye and retentive mind, took a second look.
9
Another thing which specially attracted my attention was his wonderfully retentive memory.
10
Another thing which especially attracted my attention was his wonderfully retentive memory.
11
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
12
Diana had a fairly retentive memory, and learned poetry without much trouble.
13
No one had a more retentive memory, or a more observant mind.
14
The doctor was a man of wide reading with a retentive, memory.
15
What a wonderfully active and retentive mind that gifted child must have!
16
Anal-retentive players will tighten their sphincters with joy at the level of detail.
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Retentive through the time
Retentive across language varieties
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