patient
A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied…A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
» Try to be patient with others.
Versuche, gegenüber anderen geduldig zu sein.
Попробуй быть толерантным к остальным.
Спробуй бути толерантним до інших.
Meaning
3 sensesA person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
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.
Patient, Patientin, Kranker
пацие́нтpaciént, пацие́нткаpaciéntka, больно́йbolʹnój
паціє́нтpacijént, паціє́нткаpacijéntka, хво́рийxvóryj
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.
Patiens
па́циенсpáciens
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
- a person who requires medical care
- 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
Examples
1282 sentencesTry to be patient with others.
Спробуй бути толерантним до інших.
ruПопробуй быть толерантным к остальным.
deVersuche, gegenüber anderen geduldig zu sein.
Is the patient prepared for surgery?
Пацієнт готовий до операції?
ruБольной подготовлен к операции?
deIst der Patient für die Operation vorbereitet?
I can't be patient any longer.
Я не можу більше бути терплячим.
I'm not one of your patients.
Я не один із твоїх пацієнтів.
ruЯ не один из ваших пациентов.
Tom was one of my patients.
Том був одним із моїх пацієнтів.
deTom war einer meiner Patienten.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from LatFrom Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”).
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Forms
plural: patientsSynonyms
2 synonyms- 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:affected rolepatient role
Antonyms
2 antonymsWord family
24 related wordsCollocations
12 patterns- more patient
- little more patient
- be more patient
- to be patient
- as patient as
- been very patient
- a very patient
- very patient man
- dr jackson's patient
- a patient of
- patient man
- is a patient