Sekirov Dictionary

patient

/ˈpɛjʃənt/

noun 3
adjective 3
forms 5

noun3

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a person or an animal that a doctor or a nurse takes care of
- 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.
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The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
- The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
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One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
- Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient. — 1658

adjective3

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calm and willing to wait, without getting angry when things are slow or difficult
- Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.
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steady and careful in work or effort over a long time, without giving up
- 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.
(no longer used) having a body strong enough to bear pain, cold or hard conditions

forms

patients · more patient · patienter · most patient · patientest

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