different between patient vs passive
patient
English
Etymology
From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to hate, hurt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pe???nt/
- Hyphenation: pa?tient
Adjective
patient (comparative patienter or more patient, superlative patientest or most patient)
- (of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
- Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
- December 15, 2016, Hettie Judah in the New York Times, Beloved Children’s-Book Characters, in Their Own Immersive World
- “Her personal life and her art were very intertwined: You can’t really separate them,” explains Sophia Jansson. “She mirrored her own a reality onto a fictional reality.” And this is perhaps the nub of the Moomin’s enduring appeal: a combination of adventuresome spirit and philosophy, all of which Jansson derived from close and patient observation, of human relationships and of the natural world alike.
- c. 1692, Sir Isaac Newton, letter to Dr. Richard Bentley
- Whatever I have done […] is due to […] patient thought.
- December 15, 2016, Hettie Judah in the New York Times, Beloved Children’s-Book Characters, in Their Own Immersive World
- (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
- 1661, John Fell, Doctor Henry Hammond, 1810, Christopher Wordsworth (editor), Ecclesiastical Biography, Volume 5, page 380,
- To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution, patient of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it.
- 1661, John Fell, Doctor Henry Hammond, 1810, Christopher Wordsworth (editor), Ecclesiastical Biography, Volume 5, page 380,
Synonyms
- composed
Antonyms
- impatient
- antsy
- macrophobic
Derived terms
- patiently
Related terms
- passion
- passionate
- passive
- passivity
- patience
Translations
Noun
patient (plural patients)
- A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
- (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
- One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
- c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue
- Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.
- c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue
Antonyms
- (linguistics, grammar): agent
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- -end
Further reading
- patient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- patient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- antipet
Danish
Etymology
From Latin pati?ns (“suffering”), the present active participle of patior (“to suffer”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [p?a???n?d?]
Noun
patient c (singular definite patienten, plural indefinite patienter)
- patient (person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person)
Inflection
Derived terms
See also
- klient
References
- “patient” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Middle French patient, from Old French patient, borrowed from Latin pati?ns, patientem
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.sj??/
Adjective
patient (feminine singular patiente, masculine plural patients, feminine plural patientes)
- patient
- Antonym: impatient
Derived terms
- patiemment
- patienter
Related terms
- patience
Noun
patient m (plural patients, feminine patiente)
- a patient, an outpatient
Further reading
- “patient” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Adjective
patient
- Alternative form of pacient
Noun
patient
- Alternative form of pacient
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin patiens, patientem.
Noun
patient m (oblique plural patienz or patientz, nominative singular patienz or patientz, nominative plural patient)
- (medicine) patient
Descendants
- Middle French: patient
- French: patient
- ? Middle English: pacient, paciente, pacyent, patient
- English: patient
- Norman: pâcient
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
patient c
- a patient
Declension
Related terms
- långvårdspatient
- patientavgift
- patientförening
Anagrams
- aptiten
patient From the web:
- what patients say what doctors hear
- what patient mean
- what patient information is protected by hipaa
- what patients should be evacuated first
- what patient care technician do
- what patients should be considered infectious
- what patient preparation is required for an ecg
passive
English
Etymology
From Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”); compare patient.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: p?s?-?v, IPA(key): /?pæs.?v/
- Rhymes: -æs?v
- Hyphenation: pas?sive
Adjective
passive (comparative more passive, superlative most passive)
- Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
- Taking no action.
- He remained passive during the protest.
- (grammar) Being in the passive voice.
- (psychology) Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
- (finance) Not participating in management.
- (aviation) Without motive power.
- a passive balloon; a passive aeroplane; passive flight, such as gliding and soaring
- (electronics) Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
- (passive provision) Where allowance is made for a possible future event.
- Antonym: active
Synonyms
- inactive
- idle
- disinterested
- uninvolved
Antonyms
- active
- aggressive
Derived terms
Related terms
- passion
- passionate
- patience
- patient
Translations
Noun
passive (plural passives)
- (grammar) The passive voice of verbs.
- (grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.
- (marketing) A customer who is satisfied with a product or service, but not keen enough to promote it by word of mouth.
- 2014, Roy Barnes, Bob Kelleher, Customer Experience For Dummies (page 266)
- If you want to improve your organization's NPS, you need to follow up with your detractors, passives, and promoters to understand why they answered your question as they did and what you can do better in the future.
- 2014, Roy Barnes, Bob Kelleher, Customer Experience For Dummies (page 266)
- (electronics) Any component that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
- 2001, The Virginia Engineer (volume 50, page 20)
- Reductions In Both Size And Weight Offered By Integrated Passives
You may not know it yet, but if you're like most consumers, you want integrated passives.
- Reductions In Both Size And Weight Offered By Integrated Passives
- 2010, Sridhar Canumalla, Puligandla Viswanadham, Portable Consumer Electronics: Packaging, Materials, and Reliability
- The components include active devices such as logic, memory, processors, etc.; passives such as capacitors, resistors, crystal oscillators, inductances, etc.; […]
- 2001, The Virginia Engineer (volume 50, page 20)
Translations
Further reading
- passive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- passive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- pavises
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.siv/
Adjective
passive
- feminine singular of passif
Verb
passive
- first-person singular present indicative of passiver
- third-person singular present indicative of passiver
- first-person singular present subjunctive of passiver
- third-person singular present subjunctive of passiver
- second-person singular imperative of passiver
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
passive
- inflection of passiv:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pas.?si.ve/, [pas.si?.ve]
- Hyphenation: pas?sì?ve
Adjective
passive f pl
- feminine plural of passivo
Anagrams
- spesavi
Middle English
Adjective
passive
- Alternative form of passyf
Noun
passive
- Alternative form of passyf
passive From the web:
- what passive transport
- what passive voice
- what passive income
- what passive mean
- what passive income means
- what passive income is not taxed
- what passive voice means
- what passive voice in writing
you may also like
- patient vs passive
- patience vs passive
- delicious vs delicacy
- delight vs delicacy
- delicatessen vs delicacy
- confusion vs confusing
- confusing vs confuse
- confusion vs confused
- confusing vs confused
- confuse vs confused
- precipitousness vs precipice
- precipitously vs precipice
- antediluvian vs diluvial
- pullover vs over
- overturn vs over
- overshot vs over
- overshoot vs over
- overreach vs over
- overly vs over
- overland vs over