Word Finder - passive

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(grammar) The passive voice of verbs.

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(grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.

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A customer who is satisfied with a product or service, but not keen enough to promote it by word of mouth.

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Any component that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.

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Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.

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Taking no action.

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He remained passive during the protest.

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(grammar) Being in the passive voice.

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Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.

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Not participating in management.

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Without motive power.

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a passive balloon; a passive aeroplane; passive flight, such as gliding and soaring

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Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.

He took in her features with passive curiosity.

On the Internet are far fewer passive observers.

They remained passive throughout the war and the neutrality of the country was respected by both armies.

And the passive resistance of those who refused to conform at length gave rise to active opposition.

He was a zealous advocate of the doctrine of passive obedience, and strongly opposed the Toleration Act, declaiming in unmeasured terms against the various Nonconformist sects.

During the reign of her husband, too (1547-1559), Catherine lived a quiet and passive, but observant life.

The Khazars, straitened on every side, remained passive till the danger culminated in the accession of Attila (434).

Employers should consider how to limit passive smoking at work.

Then, agreeing with evolutionism, that things are necessarily determined by forces, but with Leibnitz that body is merely passive,.

The swarthy figure and brilliant costume of the "Moor" when reproduced in wood and picked out in colours produced a very striking effect, and when a small table was supported on the head by the upraised hands the idea of passive service was suggested with completeness.

Cameron was prepared to accept Episcopacy, and was cordially disliked for his adherence to the doctrine of passive obedience.

By virtue of the passive principle the thing is susceptible of motion and modification; it is matter which determines substance (obvia).

The methods of active immunity have been practically applied in preventive inoculation against disease; those of passive immunity have given us serum therapeutics.

Is it true that Asian women are passive, sexless beings forced into arranged marriages?

Consequently a visit to Jerusalem is interpolated in the journey from Tyre to Gaza; and, Alexander, contrary to all expectation, is made to respect the high priest's passive resistance.

This idea contains within it the germ of the modern idea of the subjectivity of sense-given data; perception is not merely a passive reflection of external objects.

Thus if a little diphtheritic sputum were coughed into a person's eye, or some blood containing anthrax bacilli were to touch a raw spot upon the hand, the removal of microbes in either case by washing with simple water might be regarded as a means of passive defence, whilst washing them away with an antiseptic lotion might be regarded as active defence, because the antiseptic would tend not only to remove but to destroy the microbes.

But by the addition of some antiseptic to the ointment its defensive action would be converted from passive to active, and its power to prevent infection would become greater; and if inflammation had already set up in the skin, the addition of opium, belladonna, or cocaine would lessen local pain; and an astringent, either metallic or organic, would restrain inflammation and accelerate repair.

We have also considered in a general way the treatment of local diseases by passive protection, active protection and repair of waste; but both maintenance of health and repair of waste depend very largely upon the condition of the blood.

Exercises, passive and active, are also used in diseases of the joints, as well as massage and baths, but exercises and training are even more important in cases of cardiac disease.

It is the idea of tension or tonicity as the essential attribute of body, in contradistinction to passive inert matter, which is distinctively Stoic. The Epicureans leave unexplained the primary constitution and first movements of their atoms or elemental solids; chance or declination may account for them.

That Zeno and Cleanthes crudely compared this presentation to the impression which a seal bears upon wax, with protuberances and indentations, while Chrysippus more prudently determined it vaguely as an occult modification or " mode " of mind, is an interesting but not intrinsically important detail But the mind is no mere passive recipient of impressions from without, in the view of the Stoics.

Withdrawal from the active duty of the world must lead to passive endurance, and, ere long, complete indifference.

The facts with regard to passive immunity were thus established and were put to practical application by the introduction of diphtheria antitoxin as a therapeutic agent in 1894.

The second - passive immunity - is produced by the transference of a quantity of the serum of an animal actively immunized to a fresh animal; the term is applied because there is brought into play no active change in the tissues of the second animal.

It is by means of them that immunity (passive) can be transferred to a fresh animal.

The antitoxic serum when injected enttinoxic previously to the toxin also confers immunity (passive) against it; when injected after the toxin it has within certain limits a curative action, though in this case its dose requires to be large.

The fact that he not only did nothing to remove existing difficulties, but remained passive while his colleagues took the fatal step which led directly to separation, is in itself clear proof of his entire incapacity.

He had but imitated the policy of Theodosius with regard to the barbarians; but even that great emperor had met with passive opposition from the old Roman families.

Others have held that the self has a complex content, the subject self being, as it were, a fuller expression of the object-self (so Bradley); or again the subject self is the active content of the mind, and the object self the passive content which for the moment is exciting the attention.

As there are active and passive surfaces in the flying animal, so there are, or should be, active and passive surfaces in the flying machine.

The active surfaces in flying creatures are always greatly in excess of the passive ones, from the fact that the former virtually increase in proportion to the spaces through which they are made to travel.

Nature not only distinguishes between active and passive surfaces in flying animals, but she strikes a just balance between them, and utilizes both.

As a rule she reduces the passive surfaces of the body to a minimum; she likewise reduces as far as possible the actively moving or flying surfaces.

While, however, diminishing the surfaces of the flying animal as a whole, she increases as occasion demands the active or wing surfaces by wing movements, and the passive or dead surfaces by the forward motion of the body in progressive flight.

The elytra, moreover, are not wholly passive structures.

When the wings descend they elevate the body, the wings being active and the body passive; when the body descends it contributes to the elevation of the wings,' the body being active and the wings more or less passive.

This is necessary for the simple reason that the body must be active, the air passive.

The "passive resistance" movement, with Dr Clifford as its chief leader, had a large share in the defeat of the Unionist government in January 1906, and his efforts were then directed to getting a new act passed which should be undenominational in character.

Meanwhile "passive resistance" lost its interest, though Dr Clifford and his followers continued to protest against their treatment.

Community of creed, ancient traditional influence, the entire absence of Russian merchants, and t the consequent avoidance of many small commercial rivalries, contributed to bring about a sort of passive preference for Russia, while the bitter disputes that had occurred with Germany on the question of railway finance had left a very hostile feeling.

For the passive voice, a fi is used, with the past participle of the required verb.

The Norman barons had refused to strike a blow for John, and the cities had shown but a very passive and precarious loyalty to him.

His subjects had already begun to murmur; resistance, the early parliaments of his reign had been passive and complaisant; but by 1523 the Commons had been goaded into resistance.

This is said to have been done without Henrys consent; he certainly wished to avoid war with Charles V., and peace was made after six months of passive hostility.

During the revolution of August 177 2, Fersen remained a passive spectator of the overthrow of the constitution, and was one of the first whom Gustavus summoned to his side after his triumph.

Christ's twofold obedience, (a) active and (b) passive, produces jointly a twofold result, (1) satisfaction to the broken moral law, (2) merit, securing eternal life to Christ's people.

In bodies we observe no active agency, only a sustained natural order in the succession of passive sensuous phenomena.

Amid this commotion the king and his ministers remained passive.

The king could not like the new constitution, although, if left to himself, indolence and good nature might have rendered him passive.