retentive in English

adjective
1
(of a person's memory) having the ability to remember facts and impressions easily.
Orwell's strong retentive memory for poetry is also suggested in a 1942 review of the first three of Eliot's Four Quartets.
2
(of a substance) able to absorb and hold moisture.
Soils tend to be high in acid with a predominance of clay (25 per cent and more), low in pH, but well drained and moisture retentive .

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1. Is good intention affection how retentive?

2. She has an amazingly retentive memory.

3. He had a very retentive memory.

4. He has a very retentive memory.

5. Retentive elements in the anterior region incrrease anchorage.

6. Synonyms: Anal retentive Antonyms: oral a stage in psychosexual development when

7. Soil should be rich and moisture retentive, but free-draining.

8. Antonyms for Amnemonic include long, photographic, retentive, recollective, tenacious and retaining

9. Gerry Conlon : What I advert most most my immatureness is retentive your hand.

10. He is a scholar who has wide learning and a retentive memory.

11. Virgos have highly retentive minds and therefore make excellent editors, researchers and teachers.

12. So, as moisture retentive agent, fucoidan would be well applied in the future.

13. He had a highly retentive memory and was an accomplished and lively speaker.

14. Dolores Umbridge: [ standing with her Inquisitorial unit retentive Cho river hostage ] Get them!

15. Are replacing “clasps” with “retentive/Clasping materials…devices”, “laboratory” with “indirect”, “chairside” with “direct

16. This gives a moisture retentive medium, but allows excess water to drain from the roots.

17. In this setting, efforts should also be made to correct the underlying sodium retentive disorder.

18. Conclusion It's practical to utilize human mandible as the model to measure retentive force of clasps.

19. All solutions, particularly large-volume parenterals, are passed through a bacteria-retentive filter; if possible, this filtering

20. Don't you think Adrian's a bit anally retentive? Look how obsessively orderly everything is in his garage.

21. 19 Don't you think Adrian's a bit anally retentive? Look how obsessively orderly everything is in his garage.

22. The pores between silt particles are so small and retentive of water that tightly packed silt can not be emptied by drainage.

23. 7 The pores between silt particles are so small and retentive of water that tightly packed silt can not be emptied by drainage.

24. Both of the timer LOGO! and STEP7 have the function of on-delay, off-delay, retentive on-delay and edge-triggered interval time-delay. LOGO!

25. Guanidyl acetic acid chitosan has been synthesized with self-made chitosan and 1-chloro-glycocyamine, and its hydroscopicity and moisture retentive ability have been measured consequently.

26. Aligner Aligners are certainly more hygienic than fixed appliances by virtue of the fact that they are removed for eating and so are not food retentive, and they afford the ability to brush and floss an unencumbered natural dentition before replacing them in the mouth

27. The Washington wine industry is built on irrigation, and its Cleverest players have continually sought out less extreme sites to plant their vines—cooler expositions, higher elevations, more water-retentive soils—as well as dramatically improved their selections of clones and rootstocks to match their various sites.