passive


Definition: Meaning of, passive in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈpasɪv /

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  1. someone who is passive tends to accept things that happen to them or things that people say to them, without taking any action [↪  impassive]
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  2. technical a passive verb or sentence has as its subject the person or thing to which an action is done, as in 'His father was killed in a car accident.'
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  1. the passive technical the passive form of a verb, for example 'was destroyed' in the sentence 'The building was destroyed during the war.'
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passive used in phrases

  • passive air defense (noun)
    1. air defense by the use of deception, dispersion or protective construction
  • passive immunity (noun)
    1. as by injection of antiserum as through the placenta to an unborn child an impermanent form of acquired immunity in which antibodies against a disease are acquired naturally or artificially
  • passive matrix display (noun)
    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 resistance (noun)
    1. a way of protesting against something or opposing a government without using violence
  • passive resister (noun)
    1. a reformer who believes in passive resistance
  • passive smoking (noun)
    1. the act of breathing in smoke that is in the air around you when someone else is smoking cigarettes
  • passive source (noun)
    1. an informant who is not assigned to obtain specific intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever information he or she has
  • passive transport (noun)
    1. transport of a substance across a cell membrane by diffusion; expenditure of energy is not required
  • passive trust (noun)
    1. a trust in which the trustee performs no active duties
  • passive voice (noun)
    1. the PASSIVE 2
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