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Patient - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Patient : adj
1: enduring trying circumstances with even temper or
characterized by such endurance; "a patient smile";
"was patient with the children"; "an exact and patient
scientist"; "please be patient" [ant: impatient]
2: enduring without protest or complaint
(noun)
1: a person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency
patients has grown rapidly"
2: the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is
directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted
by the verb in the clause [syn: affected role, patient
role]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Patient : \Pa"tient\, a. [F., fr. L. patiens, -entis, p. pr. of
pati to suffer. Cf. Pathos, Passion.]
1. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer
or bear.
Patient of severest toil and hardship. --Bp. Fell.
2. Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring
or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against
trouble; long-suffering.
3. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly
diligent; as, patient endeavor.
Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
--Sir I.
Newton.
4. Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty;
not overeager; composed.
Not patient to expect the turns of fate. --Prior.
5. Forbearing; long-suffering.
Be patient toward all men. --1 Thess. v.
14.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Patient : \Pa"tient\, n.
1. ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive
recipient.
Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate
that often involves the agent and the patient.
--Gov. of
Tongue.
2. A person under medical or surgical treatment; --
correlative to physician or nurse.
Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a
pestilent fever. --Sir P.
Sidney.
In patient, a patient who receives lodging and food, as
treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary.
Out patient, one who receives advice and medicine, or
treatment, from an infirmary.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Patient : \Pa"tient\, v. t.
To compose, to calm. [Obs.] ``Patient yourself, madam.''
--Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Patient |
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donseamons: RT @tstitt: T4 Big healthcare headlines in 2010? "The Patient is In" "The Patient will See You Now" <= about time... #hcmktg |
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diabetesalic: @stmawarren Me3. I was like "please dilate it, just 2b sure."He was like, "i've never had a Patient ask me that. Sooo, I got that going 4me |
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pamgreen89: @David_Henrie That's your cue to be Patient and just stay in the same lane. You'll get there eventually!! |
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