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passive
(encz) | passive,pasivní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
passive
(encz) | passive,trpný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Passive
(gcide) | Passive \Pas"sive\, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See
Passion.]
1. 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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The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.
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The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas. --Locke.
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2. 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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The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger.
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3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong
affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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4. (Med.) 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.
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Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to
the return of the blood from the affected part.
Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It
is then not easily acted upon by acids.
Passive movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to
exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part.
Passive obedience (as used by writers on government),
obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a
duty in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the
activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul
remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of
grace.
Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form
of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of
some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,
she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is
assailed by slander.
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Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
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passive
(wn) | passive
adj 1: lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the
passive order may be traced to a disinclination to
inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith [syn:
passive, inactive] [ant: active]
2: peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive
resistance" [syn: passive, peaceful]
3: expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of
the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor
passive sentences" [ant: active]
n 1: 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" [syn: passive voice, passive]
[ant: active, active voice] |
PASSIVE
(bouvier) | PASSIVE, com. law. All the sums of which one is a debtor. It is used in
contradistinction to active. (q.v.) By active debts are understood those
which may be employed in furnishing assets to a merchant to pay those which
he owes, which are called passive debts.
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impassive
(mass) | impassive
- pokojný |
impassively
(mass) | impassively
- pokojne |
impassiveness
(mass) | impassiveness
- ľahostajnosť |
impassive
(encz) | impassive,apatický adj: lukeimpassive,klidný adj: lukeimpassive,lhostejný adj: lukeimpassive,netečný adj: luke |
impassively
(encz) | impassively,apaticky adv: lukeimpassively,klidně adv: lukeimpassively,lhostejně adv: lukeimpassively,netečně adv: luke |
impassiveness
(encz) | impassiveness,apatie n: lukeimpassiveness,lhostejnost n: lukeimpassiveness,netečnost n: luke |
passive air defense
(encz) | passive air defense, n: |
passive immunity
(encz) | passive immunity, n: |
passive matrix display
(encz) | passive matrix display, n: |
passive protection
(encz) | passive protection,pasivní ochrana [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
passive resistance
(encz) | passive resistance,pasivní odpor luke |
passive resister
(encz) | passive resister, n: |
passive solar energy
(encz) | passive solar energy,pasivní solární energie [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
passive source
(encz) | passive source, n: |
passive transport
(encz) | passive transport, n: |
passive trust
(encz) | passive trust, n: |
passive use value
(encz) | passive use value,pasivní užitná hodnota [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
passive voice
(encz) | passive voice,trpný rod [lingv.] Ritchie |
passively
(encz) | passively,pasivně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
passiveness
(encz) | passiveness, |
passive millimeter wave
(czen) | Passive Millimeter Wave,PMMW[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
Impassive
(gcide) | Impassive \Im*pas"sive\, a.
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible;
unmoved.
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Impassive as the marble in the quarry. --De Quincey.
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On the impassive ice the lightings play. --Pope.
-- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
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Impassively
(gcide) | Impassive \Im*pas"sive\, a.
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible;
unmoved.
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Impassive as the marble in the quarry. --De Quincey.
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On the impassive ice the lightings play. --Pope.
-- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
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Impassiveness
(gcide) | Impassive \Im*pas"sive\, a.
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible;
unmoved.
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Impassive as the marble in the quarry. --De Quincey.
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On the impassive ice the lightings play. --Pope.
-- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]impassiveness \im*pas"sive*ness\ n.
an absence of emotion.
Syn: apathy, impassivity.
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impassiveness
(gcide) | Impassive \Im*pas"sive\, a.
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible;
unmoved.
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Impassive as the marble in the quarry. --De Quincey.
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On the impassive ice the lightings play. --Pope.
-- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]impassiveness \im*pas"sive*ness\ n.
an absence of emotion.
Syn: apathy, impassivity.
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Passive
(gcide) | Passive \Pas"sive\, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See
Passion.]
1. 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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The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.
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The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas. --Locke.
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2. 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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The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger.
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3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong
affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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4. (Med.) 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.
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Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to
the return of the blood from the affected part.
Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It
is then not easily acted upon by acids.
Passive movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to
exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part.
Passive obedience (as used by writers on government),
obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a
duty in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the
activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul
remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of
grace.
Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form
of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of
some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,
she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is
assailed by slander.
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Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
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Passive aeroplane
(gcide) | Passive balloon \Pas"sive bal*loon"\ or Passive aeroplane
\Pas"sive a"["e]r*o*plane\
One unprovided with motive power.
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Passive balloon
(gcide) | Passive balloon \Pas"sive bal*loon"\ or Passive aeroplane
\Pas"sive a"["e]r*o*plane\
One unprovided with motive power.
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Passive congestion
(gcide) | Passive \Pas"sive\, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See
Passion.]
1. 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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The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.
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The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas. --Locke.
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2. 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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The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger.
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3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong
affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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4. (Med.) 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.
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Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to
the return of the blood from the affected part.
Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It
is then not easily acted upon by acids.
Passive movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to
exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part.
Passive obedience (as used by writers on government),
obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a
duty in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the
activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul
remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of
grace.
Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form
of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of
some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,
she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is
assailed by slander.
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Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
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Passive flight
(gcide) | Passive flight \Passive flight\
Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the
use of motive power.
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Passive hyperaemia
(gcide) | Hyperaemia \Hy`per*[ae]"mi*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. "ype`r over +
a"i^ma blood.] (Med.)
A superabundance or congestion of blood in an organ or part
of the body.
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Active hyper[ae]mia, congestion due to increased flow of
blood to a part.
Passive hyper[ae]mia, interchange due to obstruction in the
return of blood from a part. -- Hy`per*[ae]"mic, a.
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Passive iron
(gcide) | Passive \Pas"sive\, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See
Passion.]
1. 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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The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.
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The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas. --Locke.
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2. 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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The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger.
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3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong
affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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4. (Med.) 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.
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Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to
the return of the blood from the affected part.
Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It
is then not easily acted upon by acids.
Passive movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to
exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part.
Passive obedience (as used by writers on government),
obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a
duty in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the
activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul
remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of
grace.
Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form
of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of
some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,
she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is
assailed by slander.
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Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
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Passive movement
(gcide) | Passive \Pas"sive\, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See
Passion.]
1. 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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The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.
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The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas. --Locke.
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2. 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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The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger.
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3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong
affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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4. (Med.) 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.
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Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to
the return of the blood from the affected part.
Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It
is then not easily acted upon by acids.
Passive movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to
exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part.
Passive obedience (as used by writers on government),
obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a
duty in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the
activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul
remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of
grace.
Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form
of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of
some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,
she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is
assailed by slander.
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Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
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Passive obedience
(gcide) | Obedience \O*be"di*ence\, n. [F. ob['e]dience, L. obedientia,
oboedientia. See Obedient, and cf. Obeisance.]
1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient;
compliance with that which is required by authority;
subjection to rightful restraint or control.
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Government must compel the obedience of individuals.
--Ames.
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2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority;
dutifulness. --Shak.
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3. (Eccl.)
(a) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman
Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who
submit to the authority of the pope.
(b) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by
a prior.
(c) One of the three monastic vows. --Shipley.
(d) The written precept of a superior in a religious order
or congregation to a subject.
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Canonical obedience. See under Canonical.
Passive obedience. See under Passive.
[1913 Webster]Passive \Pas"sive\, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See
Passion.]
1. 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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The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.
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The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas. --Locke.
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2. 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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The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger.
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3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong
affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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4. (Med.) 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.
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Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to
the return of the blood from the affected part.
Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It
is then not easily acted upon by acids.
Passive movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to
exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part.
Passive obedience (as used by writers on government),
obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a
duty in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the
activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul
remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of
grace.
Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form
of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of
some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,
she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is
assailed by slander.
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Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
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passive power
(gcide) | Power \Pow"er\, n. [OE. pouer, poer, OF. poeir, pooir, F.
pouvoir, n. & v., fr. LL. potere, for L. posse, potesse, to
be able, to have power. See Possible, Potent, and cf.
Posse comitatus.]
1. Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the
faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for
action or performance; capability of producing an effect,
whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of
great power; the power of capillary attraction; money
gives power. "One next himself in power, and next in
crime." --Milton.
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2. Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength,
force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in
moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in
producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm. "The power
of fancy." --Shak.
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3. Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted
upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as,
great power of endurance.
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Power, then, is active and passive; faculty is
active power or capacity; capacity is passive power.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
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4. The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the
exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion;
sway; command; government.
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Power is no blessing in itself but when it is
employed to protect the innocent. --Swift.
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5. The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual
invested with authority; an institution, or government,
which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe;
hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
"The powers of darkness." --Milton.
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And the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
--Matt. xxiv.
29.
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6. A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
--Spenser.
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Never such a power . . .
Was levied in the body of a land. --Shak.
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7. A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o? good
things. [Colloq.] --Richardson.
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8. (Mech.)
(a) The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or
mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other
machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an
engine of twenty horse power.
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Note: The English unit of power used most commonly is the
horse power. See Horse power.
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(b) A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical
energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand
power, etc.
(c) Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as,
the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a
weight at the other end.
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Note: This use in mechanics, of power as a synonym for force,
is improper and is becoming obsolete.
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(d) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a
motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
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Note: Power is used adjectively, denoting, driven, or adapted
to be driven, by machinery, and not actuated directly
by the hand or foot; as, a power lathe; a power loom; a
power press.
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9. (Math.) The product arising from the multiplication of a
number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and
a cube is third power, of a number.
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10. (Metaph.) Mental or moral ability to act; one of the
faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as,
the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing,
fearing, hoping, etc. --I. Watts.
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The guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of
my powers, drove the grossness . . . into a
received belief. --Shak.
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11. (Optics) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any
optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and
usually in the microscope, the number of times it
multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an
object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it
multiplies the apparent surface.
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12. (Law) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an
interest vested either in himself or in another person;
ownership by appointment. --Wharton.
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13. Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the
business was referred to a committee with power.
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Note: Power may be predicated of inanimate agents, like the
winds and waves, electricity and magnetism,
gravitation, etc., or of animal and intelligent beings;
and when predicated of these beings, it may indicate
physical, mental, or moral ability or capacity.
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Mechanical powers. See under Mechanical.
Power loom, or Power press. See Def. 8
(d), note.
Power of attorney. See under Attorney.
Power of a point (relative to a given curve) (Geom.), the
result of substituting the coordinates of any point in
that expression which being put equal to zero forms the
equation of the curve; as, x^2 + y^2 - 100 is the
power of the point x, y, relative to the circle x^2 +
y^2 - 100 = 0.
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Passive prayer
(gcide) | Passive \Pas"sive\, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See
Passion.]
1. 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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The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.
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The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas. --Locke.
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2. 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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The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger.
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3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong
affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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4. (Med.) 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.
[1913 Webster]
Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to
the return of the blood from the affected part.
Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It
is then not easily acted upon by acids.
Passive movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to
exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part.
Passive obedience (as used by writers on government),
obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a
duty in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the
activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul
remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of
grace.
Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form
of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of
some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,
she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is
assailed by slander.
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Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
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passive trust
(gcide) | Trust \Trust\, n. [OE. trust, trost, Icel. traust confidence,
security; akin to Dan. & Sw. tr["o]st comfort, consolation,
G. trost, Goth. trausti a convention, covenant, and E. true.
See True, and cf. Tryst.]
1. Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity,
justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another
person; confidence; reliance; reliance. "O ever-failing
trust in mortal strength!" --Milton.
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Most take things upon trust. --Locke.
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2. Credit given; especially, delivery of property or
merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange
without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or
buy goods on trust.
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3. Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or
contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief. "Such
trust have we through Christ." --2 Cor. iii. 4.
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His trust was with the Eternal to be deemed
Equal in strength. --Milton.
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4. That which is committed or intrusted to one; something
received in confidence; charge; deposit.
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5. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is
confided; responsible charge or office.
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[I] serve him truly that will put me in trust.
--Shak.
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Reward them well, if they observe their trust.
--Denham.
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6. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance;
hope.
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O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. --Ps.
lxxi. 5.
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7. (Law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the
devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the
profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an
estate held for the use of another; a confidence
respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed
the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the
cestui que trust.
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8. An equitable right or interest in property distinct from
the legal ownership thereof; a use (as it existed before
the Statute of Uses); also, a property interest held by
one person for the benefit of another. Trusts are active,
or special, express, implied, constructive, etc. In a
passive trust the trustee simply has title to the trust
property, while its control and management are in the
beneficiary.
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9. A business organization or combination consisting of a
number of firms or corporations operating, and often
united, under an agreement creating a trust (in sense 1),
esp. one formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the
supply and price of commodities, etc.; often,
opprobriously, a combination formed for the purpose of
controlling or monopolizing a trade, industry, or
business, by doing acts in restraint or trade; as, a sugar
trust. A trust may take the form of a corporation or of a
body of persons or corporations acting together by mutual
arrangement, as under a contract or a so-called
gentlemen's agreement. When it consists of corporations it
may be effected by putting a majority of their stock
either in the hands of a board of trustees (whence the
name trust for the combination) or by transferring a
majority to a holding company. The advantages of a trust
are partly due to the economies made possible in carrying
on a large business, as well as the doing away with
competition. In the United States severe statutes against
trusts have been passed by the Federal government and in
many States, with elaborate statutory definitions.
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Syn: Confidence; belief; faith; hope; expectation.
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Trust deed (Law), a deed conveying property to a trustee,
for some specific use.
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Passive verb
(gcide) | Passive \Pas"sive\, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See
Passion.]
1. 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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The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.
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The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas. --Locke.
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2. 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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The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger.
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3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong
affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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4. (Med.) 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.
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Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to
the return of the blood from the affected part.
Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It
is then not easily acted upon by acids.
Passive movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to
exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part.
Passive obedience (as used by writers on government),
obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a
duty in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the
activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul
remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of
grace.
Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form
of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of
some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,
she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is
assailed by slander.
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Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
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Passive voice
(gcide) | Passive \Pas"sive\, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See
Passion.]
1. 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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The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.
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The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas. --Locke.
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2. 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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The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger.
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3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong
affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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4. (Med.) 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.
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Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to
the return of the blood from the affected part.
Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It
is then not easily acted upon by acids.
Passive movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to
exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part.
Passive obedience (as used by writers on government),
obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a
duty in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the
activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul
remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of
grace.
Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form
of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of
some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,
she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is
assailed by slander.
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Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
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vox, vocis, akin to Gr. ? a word, ? a voice, Skr. vac to say,
to speak, G. erw[aum]hnen to mention. Cf. Advocate,
Advowson, Avouch, Convoke, Epic, Vocal, Vouch,
Vowel.]
1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by
human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered
considered as possessing some special quality or
character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low
voice.
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He with a manly voice saith his message. --Chaucer.
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Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.
--Shak.
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Thy voice is music. --Shak.
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Join thy voice unto the angel choir. --Milton.
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2. (Phon.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or
song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels;
sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished
from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and
also whisper.
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Note: Voice, in this sense, is produced by vibration of the
so-called vocal cords in the larynx (see Illust. of
Larynx) which act upon the air, not in the manner of
the strings of a stringed instrument, but as a pair of
membranous tongues, or reeds, which, being continually
forced apart by the outgoing current of breath, and
continually brought together again by their own
elasticity and muscular tension, break the breath
current into a series of puffs, or pulses, sufficiently
rapid to cause the sensation of tone. The power, or
loudness, of such a tone depends on the force of the
separate pulses, and this is determined by the pressure
of the expired air, together with the resistance on the
part of the vocal cords which is continually overcome.
Its pitch depends on the number of aerial pulses within
a given time, that is, on the rapidity of their
succession. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5,
146, 155.
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3. The tone or sound emitted by anything.
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After the fire a still small voice. --1 Kings xix.
12.
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Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? --Job xl.
9.
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The floods have lifted up their voice. --Ps. xciii.
3.
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O Marcus, I am warm'd; my heart
Leaps at the trumpet's voice. --Addison.
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4. The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the
voice.
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5. Language; words; speech; expression; signification of
feeling or opinion.
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I desire to be present with you now, and to change
my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. --Gal. iv.
20.
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My voice is in my sword. --Shak.
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Let us call on God in the voice of his church. --Bp.
Fell.
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6. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
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Sic. How now, my masters! have you chose this man?
1 Cit. He has our voices, sir. --Shak.
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Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice
Of holy senates, and elect by voice. --Dryden.
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7. Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural
language.
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So shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient
unto the voice of the Lord your God. --Deut. viii.
20.
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8. One who speaks; a speaker. "A potent voice of Parliament."
--Tennyson.
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9. (Gram.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating
verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which
is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to
the action which the verb expresses.
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Active voice (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its
subject is represented as the agent or doer of the action
expressed by it.
Chest voice (Phon.), a kind of voice of a medium or low
pitch and of a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in
the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is
produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their
entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces
presented to each other.
Head voice (Phon.), a kind of voice of high pitch and of a
thin quality ascribed to resonance in the head; voice of
the thin register; falsetto. In producing it, the
vibration of the cords is limited to their thin edges in
the upper part, which are then presented to each other.
Middle voice (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its
subject is represented as both the agent, or doer, and the
object of the action, that is, as performing some act to
or upon himself, or for his own advantage.
Passive voice. (Gram.) See under Passive, a.
Voice glide (Pron.), the brief and obscure neutral vowel
sound that sometimes occurs between two consonants in an
unaccented syllable (represented by the apostrophe), as in
able (a"b'l). See Glide, n., 2.
Voice stop. See Voiced stop, under Voiced, a.
With one voice, unanimously. "All with one voice . . .
cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians." --Acts xix.
34.
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Passively
(gcide) | Passively \Pas"sive*ly\, adv.
1. In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.
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2. As a passive verb; in the passive voice.
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Passiveness
(gcide) | Passiveness \Pas"sive*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being passive; unresisting
submission.
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To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being
subject to the power and action of its cause. --J.
Edwards.
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impassive
(wn) | impassive
adj 1: having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not
easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness";
"he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor
concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent
stolid creature who took it all as a matter of
course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but
stolid indifference" [syn: impassive, stolid]
2: deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face
remained expressionless as the verdict was read" [syn:
deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced,
unexpressive] |
impassively
(wn) | impassively
adv 1: in an impassive manner; "he submitted impassively to his
arrest" |
impassiveness
(wn) | impassiveness
n 1: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
[syn: emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness,
phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality] |
passive air defense
(wn) | passive air defense
n 1: air defense by the use of deception or dispersion or
protective construction |
passive immunity
(wn) | passive immunity
n 1: an impermanent form of acquired immunity in which
antibodies against a disease are acquired naturally (as
through the placenta to an unborn child) or artificially
(as by injection of antiserum) |
passive matrix display
(wn) | passive matrix display
n 1: a type of LCD display used for some portable computers;
parallel wires run both vertically and horizontally and
pixels are turned on when the wires intersecting at that
pixel are both energized; "passive matrix displays are
generally inferior to active matrix displays" |
passive resistance
(wn) | passive resistance
n 1: peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing
to cooperate [syn: passive resistance, {nonviolent
resistance}, nonviolence] |
passive resister
(wn) | passive resister
n 1: a reformer who believes in passive resistance [syn: {non-
resistant}, passive resister] |
passive source
(wn) | passive source
n 1: an informant who is not assigned to obtain specific
intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever
information he or she has |
passive transport
(wn) | passive transport
n 1: transport of a substance across a cell membrane by
diffusion; expenditure of energy is not required |
passive trust
(wn) | passive trust
n 1: a trust in which the trustee performs no active duties
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passive voice
(wn) | passive voice
n 1: 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" [syn: passive voice, passive]
[ant: active, active voice] |
passively
(wn) | passively
adv 1: in a passive manner; "he listened passively" [ant:
actively] |
passiveness
(wn) | passiveness
n 1: submission to others or to outside influences [syn:
passivity, passiveness]
2: the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative [syn:
passivity, passiveness] |
passive matrix display
(foldoc) | passive matrix display
A type of liquid crystal display which relies on
persistence to maintain the state of each display element
(pixel) between refresh scans. The resolution of such
displays is limited by the ratio between the time to set a
pixel and the time it takes to fade.
Contrast active matrix display.
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PASSIVE
(bouvier) | PASSIVE, com. law. All the sums of which one is a debtor. It is used in
contradistinction to active. (q.v.) By active debts are understood those
which may be employed in furnishing assets to a merchant to pay those which
he owes, which are called passive debts.
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