passive : Idioms & Phrases
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passive air defense
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noun air defense by the use of deception or dispersion or protective construction
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Passive congestion
(Med.) , congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part.
Webster 1913
passive immunity
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noun 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)
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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.
Webster 1913
passive matrix display
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noun 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
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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.
Webster 1913
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.
Webster 1913
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.
Webster 1913
passive resistance
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noun peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate
nonviolence; nonviolent resistance.
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passive resister
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noun a reformer who believes in passive resistance
non-resistant.
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passive source
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noun an informant who is not assigned to obtain specific intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever information he or she has
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passive transport
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noun transport of a substance across a cell membrane by diffusion; expenditure of energy is not required
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passive trust
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noun a trust in which the trustee performs no active duties
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Passive verb , ∨ 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.
Webster 1913
passive voice
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noun 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
passive.
- `The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice
- `The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive