Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Adjektiivit
- Content to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
- Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
- (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
Substantiivit
- A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
- (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
- One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Esimerkit
- Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.
- patient endeavour
- Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
- patient of severest toil and hardship
- The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[...]real kidneys[...]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
- The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
- Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | patients |
| Komparatiivi | patienter |
| Komparatiivi | more patient |
| Superlatiivi | patientest |
| Superlatiivi | most patient |