PASSIVE
\pˈasɪv], \pˈasɪv], \p_ˈa_s_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of PASSIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb; "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"
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expressing thatthe subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor passive sentences"
By Princeton University
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the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb; "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"
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(grammar) passive voice
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
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Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
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Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.
By Oddity Software
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Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
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Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
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Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.
By Noah Webster.
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Suffering without resisting; not acting but acted upon; as, a passive disposition; submissive; in grammar, indicating that form of the transitive verb which asserts that the subject is acted upon.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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PASSIVELY.
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Pertaining to a form of verb that represents the subject of the verb as the object of the action.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Same etymon as Passion. An epithet for diseases which seem owing to a greater or less diminution of the strength, or which are without apparent reaction. Thus, passive hemorrhages are such as supervene in debilitated individuals, or under conditions in which increased action of the arteries can scarcely be presumed. The term passive has, also, been given to aneurisms of the heart with extenuation of the parietes; in opposition to active aneurisms, with thickness of the parietes- hypertrophy.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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