patient
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
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 *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”).
Inflected forms:
form: more patient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most patient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: patients
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
pos: adj
examples: Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.
Asari Cultural VI: Due to our lifespan-sometimes reaching 1,000 years of age-we are patient in our decisions, and prefer long-term solutions over short-term gains.
gloss: Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
pos: adj
examples: patient endeavour
a patient wait
patient analysis
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
“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.
In contrast, the Westminster Gazette in 1912 was much more positive about railway staff, praising the "...army of porters hustling and bustling hither and thither with barrows groaning under the weight of bags and baggage and... the ever-patient and long-suffering guards, courteously giving information and advice to the querulous passengers... to the porter the Christmas season means a continuous round of heavy labour, extremely tiring to both nerves and temper, and this fact the public too often seem either to forget or ignore."
gloss: Physically able to suffer or bear.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
pos: noun
examples: Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.
At the veterinary clinic, caring for the patients successfully and dealing with the patients’ owners successfully are both necessary skills.
The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
gloss: The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
pos: noun
examples: The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
The number of a first or second person participant is generally marked for both agent and patient in all aspects.
Since we have argued that the absolutive argument in Dyirbal is the grammatical subject of its clause, we must conclude that in the antipassive construction the agent replaces the patient as grammatical subject.
gloss: One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
pos: noun
examples: Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.
For it seems clear that the subject of change is the changed, i.e. the patient -- on one proviso. the proviso is that there be an agent or changer.
How does a person change from a patient to an agent in shaping and living a course of life?
According to the tradition, when an agent acts on a patient, the change is located in the patient. If the patient reacts on the agent, then the agent is a patient in the new relation.
The starting point is that all events involve an agent and a patient. Agents and patients are modelled as (material or non-material) objects, and can therefore be represented as points in conceptual spaces.
Related words: passion
passionate
passive
passivity
patience
-end
Derived words: omnipatient
overpatient
patient as Job
patiently
unpatient
copatient
cyberpatient
heartsink patient
index patient
inpatient
interpatient
intrapatient
mental patient
nonpatient
outpatient
patientcare
patient contact
patienthood
patient information leaflet
patientive
patientless
patientlike
patientness
patient of something
patient role
patient under investigation
patient zero
pseudopatient
superpatient
telepatient
trans patient
transpatient
walking patient
xenopatient
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