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Definitions: Patient |
PatientAdjective1. 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". 2. Enduring without protest or complaint. Noun1. A person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "patient" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Patient (The). Albert IV., Duke of Austria. (1377-1404.) (See Helena. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | . . the dentist can learn. . . professed attitude of the -- with regard to a new denture. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A person who is ill or who is undergoing treatment for disease. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A person who is being exposed to ionising radiation for medical purposes. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Slang | One's tits on. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the United States of America patients will be able to seek protection under the Patients' Bill of Rights. The recent passage of the McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Patients' Bill of Rights was a critical step in the path to providing comprehensive protections to all Americans in health plans.
The House of Representatives and Senate passed differing versions of the Patients' Bill of Rights. Although both bills would provide patients key rights such as prompt access to emergency care and specialists , only the Senate-passed measure would provide patients with adequate means to enforce their rights.
The Senate-passed Patients' Bill of Rights confers a broad array of rights on patients. The bill would ensure that patients have the right to:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Patient."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PAS | English | Patient administration system | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: PatientSynonym: Passive. (additional references) |
| Antonym: impatient (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Content | Adjective: content, contented; satisfied; Verb: at ease, at one's ease, at home; with the mind at ease, sans souci, sine cura, easygoing, not particular; conciliatory; unrepining, of good comfort; resigned; (patient); cheerful. |
Disease | Martyr to disease; cripple; " the halt the lame and the blind"; valetudinary, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber. |
Excitability | Meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering. |
Resentment | Phrase: one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili bile jecur; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo; " beware the fury of a patient man "; furor arma ministrat; ira furor brevis est; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius; "What, drunk with choler? ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You dumbasses. I'm a mental patient. I'm supposed to act out! (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples) Dad has a patient who thinks he shits trout. (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan) I thought moms were supposed to be nice, and sweet, and patient. I know loan-sharks that are more forgiving than you. (The Ref; writing credit: Marie Weiss and Richard LaGravenese. Starring Denis Leary as Gus, Judy Davis as Caroline Chasseur and Kevin Spacey as Lloyd Chasseur.) We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease. (Patch Adams; writing credit: Patch Adams; Maureen Mylander) A thousand apologies, O Patient One. (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) | |
Lyrics | I've tried so hard, hard to be patient ("Stop in the Name of Love"; performing artist: The Supremes) | |
Clever | Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch. (references; author: unknown) The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993. (references; author: unknown) I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Patient Be Patient (1944) The Patient Vanishes (1941) Patient Porky (1940) The Patient in Room 18 (1938) While the Patient Slept (1935) | |
Song Titles | Patient Man (performing artist: Greg Jacobs) Looking Through Patient Eyes (performing artist: P.M. Dawn) | |
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 | Pictured is a head x-ray taken by a CAT scanner. This diagnostic technique uses computers to organize thousands of x-rays, taken by a rotating machine around the patient. When first applied in the 1970's it revolutionized detection of brain tumors.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Physician examing pediatric patient whose is receiving chemotherapy.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Histopathologic brain tissue from a rabies patient displaying the pathognomonic finding of Negri Bodies within the neuronal cytoplasm, and stained using H&E stain.Credit: CDC. |  | Bipolar staining of a plague smear prepared from lymph aspirated from an adenopathic lymph node, or bubo, of plague patient.Credit: CDC. |
 | Neisseria gonorrhoeae was among the differential diagnostic etiologic agents. However, the gram negative diplococci, here associated with these epithelial cells, were found in a male patient who had no signs of urethritis.Credit: CDC. |  | Mucormycosis is a dangerous fungal infection usually occurring in the immunocompromised patient, affecting the regions of the eye, nose, and through its growth and destruction of the periorbital tissues, it will eventually invade the brain cavity.Credit: CDC. |
 | Master Sgt. Joe Sanfilippo tends to an 'injured' patient during the Self-Aid and Buddy Care test at Top Dollar 2000 in Gulfport, Ms. Assisting is 1st Lt. Amy Austgen and looking on in the back is Staff Sgt. Heesoon Bartlett. All three are members of the. |  | Educating a patient about the importance of early detection of eye disease.Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health. |
 | A questionnaire about how well a patient sees helps to determine how low vision affects a patient's quality of life.Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health. |  | Using an occluder, the patient covers one eye while reading with the uncovered eye. This test helps to measure reading vision.Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | Why should there not ba a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? |
Francis Bacon | Cure the disease and kill the patient. |
Homer | The fates have given mankind a patient soul. |
Horace Mann | Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Wise to resolve, patient to perform. |
John Dryden | Beware the fury of a patient man. |
Lord Mansfield | God help the patient. |
Thomas Fuller | The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. |
William Shakespeare | Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi] |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | Now the trumpet summons us again--not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need--not as a call to battle, though embattled we are --but as a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"--a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | All this time, Roger Chillingworth was looking at the minister with the grave and intent regard of a physician towards his patient. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | What he had learned in medicine was rather to be a patient than a physician. |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | Beware the fury of a patient man. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He had long been patient, pleading with the sinful soul, giving it time to repent, sparing it yet awhile. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have Some patient leisure to excuse myself. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Patient requests surgery. (references) | |
One moment the patient can move easily. (references) | ||
Be patient and continue to work together. (references) | ||
Business | In the State of Victoria, for example, patient co-payments have been introduced. (references) | |
This is unusual since many foreign HCPs serve primarily Western patient populations. (references) | ||
HAD care is available 24 hours a day, and is supervised by a physician chosen by the patient. (references) | ||
Economic History | Korea | Products that present the best export prospects for U.S. exporters include various high-tech medical products, including sterilizers, rehabilitation equipment, respiration equipment, orthopedic joints, diagnostic ultrasound scanners, magnetic resonance imaging systems, patient monitors, computer tomography scanners, catheters, artificial kidneys and dialysis machines, suture, suture needles, general surgical instruments, operation tables, ophthalmic equipment, endoscopes, intraocular lenses, artificial heart valves and dental equipment and supplies. (references) |
Bangladesh | Added to these difficulties are such problems as corruption, labor militancy, uncertain law and order situation, poor infrastructure, inadequate commercial laws and courts, and policy instability (i.e., policies being altered at the behest of special interests.) However, companies that have been patient and managed to persevere through these impediments have done well in generating good rates of return, as profit margins tend to be high for well-managed companies in many of the sectors open to foreign investment. (references) | |
Canada | In 1998, TPP introduced new regulations, which classify medical devices into four categories depending on the level of potential risk to the patient. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nepal | On December 9, Maoists destroyed a clearly marked Red Cross ambulance, carrying an elderly female patient in an ambush in Kalika, Bardiya District. (references) |
Ukraine | Within 3 days after forcible confinement to a hospital, a patient must be examined by three doctors. (references) | |
Political Economy | India | U.S. firms are advised to be patient and take a long-term view in this market. (references) |
Trade | Taiwan | The United States has called on Taiwan to adopt measures that will recognize the value of the technology embodied in U.S. medical devices, or to otherwise adopt market-based approaches, such as patient co-payment, which permits adequate market access for higher quality, higher priced devices. (references) |
Bolivia | There has been special preference for used/refurbished medical equipment, such as medical diagnostic systems, optical instruments, anesthesia apparatus, operating room furniture, patient room furniture, other hospital furniture, and surgical instruments and apparatus. (references) | |
Travel | Qatar | Prior to undergoing surgery, a resident expatriate patient is requested to donate blood. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy. Moses Mendlessohn having fallen ill sent for a Christian physician, who at once diagnosed the philosopher's disorder as trichinosis, but tactfully gave it another name. "You need and immediate change of diet," he said; "you must eat six ounces of pork every other day." "Pork?" shrieked the patient -- "pork? Nothing shall induce me to touch it!" "Do you mean that?" the doctor gravely asked. "I swear it!" "Good! -- then I will undertake to cure you." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Weil | This is a very powerful drug that has been used for rheumatoid arthritis. I have to tell you I saw one patient at our clinic in University of Arizona, a university professor, woman, who had very severe rheumatoid arthritis, went on enbrill. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | I can not but hope that by the same process of friendly, patient, and persevering deliberation all constitutional objections will ultimately be removed. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Long and patient reflection has strengthened the opinions I have heretofore expressed to Congress on this subject, and I deem it my duty on the present occasion again to urge them upon the attention of the Legislature. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Our nation is patient and steadfast. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Patient" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.94% of the time. "Patient" is used about 5,360 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80.94% | 4,338 | 2,274 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 18.9% | 1,013 | 7,297 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.17% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,360 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "patient" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Patient | Last name | 130 | 69,269 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Patient Infosystems, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "patient": a patient ♦ aids patient ♦ be beside patient ♦ be patient ♦ be patient of ♦ bring a patient through ♦ cancer patient ♦ compulsory patient ♦ Continuity of Patient Care ♦ discharged patient ♦ heart patient ♦ In patient ♦ keep a patient going ♦ mental patient ♦ out patient ♦ pacemaker patient ♦ pacer patient ♦ Patient Acceptance of Health Care ♦ Patient Admission ♦ Patient Advocacy ♦ patient at a spa ♦ Patient Care ♦ Patient Care Management ♦ Patient Care Planning ♦ Patient Care Team ♦ Patient Compliance ♦ Patient Credit and Collection ♦ Patient Discharge ♦ patient dose ♦ Patient Education ♦ Patient Escort Service ♦ Patient Freedom of Choice Laws ♦ Patient Identification Systems ♦ patient is between life and death ♦ Patient Isolation ♦ Patient Isolators ♦ patient monitor ♦ patient of ♦ Patient Participation ♦ Patient Readmission ♦ Patient Satisfaction ♦ Patient Selection ♦ Patient Self-Determination Act ♦ Patient Simulation ♦ Patient Transfer ♦ patient who undergone surgery ♦ Progressive Patient Care ♦ risk patient ♦ seriously ill patient ♦ sound the lungs of a patient ♦ transplant patient ♦ xenotransplanted patient. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "patient": patient-area, patient-care, Patient-Centered Care, patient-centred, patient-doctor, patient-driven, patient-friendly, patient-led, patient-list, patient-neglect, patient-nurse, patient-orientated, patient-physician. | |
Ending with "patient": doctor-patient, ex-patient, nurse-patient, out-patient, staff-patient. | |
Containing "patient": Dentist-Patient Relations, doctor-patient relation, Hospital-Patient Relations, in-patient unit, nurse-patient relation, Nurse-Patient Relations, physician-patient privilege, Physician-Patient Relations, Professional-Patient Relations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
patient | 394 |
the english patient | 293 |
patient care | 188 |
love is patient | 139 |
patient education | 139 |
wig for cancer patient | 133 |
patient right | 132 |
patient scheduling | 131 |
patient bill of right | 118 |
kind love love patient | 107 |
patient lift | 99 |
first patient | 93 |
patient safety | 82 |
patient advocate | 64 |
patient satisfaction | 59 |
american home patient | 57 |
patient financing | 52 |
patient satisfaction survey | 46 |
cancer patient | 42 |
patient survey | 34 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "patient"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | geduldig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pacient (case), këmbëngulës (assiduous, difficult, dogged, emphatic, exacting, insistent, lingering, persevering, persistent, pressing, rebellious, tenacious, unremitting, unyielding, up and coming, urgent), i sëmurë (ailing, bad, case, compulsive, diseased, down, ill, invalid, morbid, noisome, pathological, seedy, sick, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), i durueshëm (bearable, easy, endurable, tolerable, tol-lol), i duruar (meek, placable, tolerant, uncomplaining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حليم (meek), طويل الأناة, صامد (durable, fireproof, immovable, proof, recusant, resistant, staunch), صبور (long-suffering), المريض, الزبون (client, shopper), الصابر, الصبور. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | старателен (assiduous, careful, painstaking, studious, thorough), усърден (assiduous, diligent, hard, industrious, mettled, mettlesome, painstaking, sedulous, strenuous, studious, thorough, warm), упорит (asinine, constant, defiant, die hard, dogged, flinty, gritty, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard core, hard set, hardheaded, hard-shell, importunate, incompliant, indomitable, insistent, intractable, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, piggish, purposeful, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stolid, stout, stouthearted, strenuous, sturdy, tenacious, tough, unpliant, unremitting, unwearing, wilful, wrongheaded), търпелив (enduring, tolerant, uncomplaining, unmurmuring), който търпи, който допуска, болен (ailing, bad, diseased, ill, invalid, punk, sick, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), пациент (inmate, subject), издръжлив (enduring, hard bitten, proof, reliable, resistant, seaworthy, spunky, stout, strong, tough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 患者 (sufferer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pasiáns, pacient, trpìlivý (gentle, long-suffering, uncomplaining), nemocný èlovìk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | patient, tålmodig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | patiënt, zieke. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | paciento, pacienca, malsanulo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sjúklingur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پذیرش (Acceptance, Admission, Assent, Reception), مریض (Morbid, Sick), صبور, ازروی بردباری , شکیبا (Tolerant), بیمار (Bedridden, Ill, Sick, Unhealthy), بردبار (Meek, Tolerant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | potilas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | patient. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | pasjint, ferduldich. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Patient (inpatient), geduldig (meek, patiently, tolerating, uncomplaining, uncomplainingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νοσηλευόμενοσ, υπομονητικόσ, υπομονετικόσ, άρρωστοσ (ill, sick), ασθενείς, ασθενήσ (ailing, feckless, ill, infirm, piping, pithless, sick, unwell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חול" (ill, infirm, inmate, sick, unfit, unwell), ארוך אפים (forbearing), סבלן, סבל י. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | türelmes (broad, forbearing, large minded, long-suffering, permissive, suffering, tolerant, uncomplaining), páciens (a patient), beteg (a patient, ailing, bad, be ill, be poorly, crook, dicky, diseased, ill, invalid, sick, to be ill, to be out of health, to be under the weather, to feel crummy, to feel ill, unsound, unwell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | þolinmóður. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pasien, panjang usus, telaten (painstaking, persevering), sabar (endure, resignedly), kalem (cool, relaxed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | foighneach. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | paziente (enduring, forbearing, ill, inmate, long-suffering, sick person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 辛抱強い , 病人 (sick person), 気長 (leisurely), 患者様 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きなが (leisurely), し"ぼうづよい, びょうに" (sick person), か"じゃさま. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 환자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | surransagh (forbearing, in-patient, passive, sufferable, sufferer, supportable, tolerable, tolerant), meen (bland, darling, dear, pet, quiet, sweet), fullynagh, fuillaghtagh (blood shedder, endurable; bloodthirsty, homicide, passive, shedding blood, suffering; sufferable, tolerable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | tålmodig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | pashènt, enfermo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atientpay pacjent. (various references) paciente (enduring, long-suffering, patina, uncomplaining). (various references) pacientes. (various references) perseverent (abiding, dogged, persevering, perseveringly, seductive, sedulous, tenacious, unremitting, unwearied, urgent), pasibil, pacient (case), subiect (cause, copy, fable, material, plot, reason, record, subject, theme, topic), stãruitor (arduous, assiduous, constant, dogged, firm, instant, instantly, persevering, perseveringly, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pleading, pressing, pushing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, tenacious, trusty, urgent, zealous), rezistent (enduring, fast, hard, Hardy, immune, lasting, resistant, stout, strong, tough), rãbdãtor (enduring, patiently, tolerant), ofticos (consumptive, lank, lunger, ramshackle, raw boned, scanty, wasted, weak), bolnav (afflicted, ailing, bad, below the mark, deranged, diseased, ill, invalid, negativist, off the hinges, painful, shaky, sick, suffering, unwell), îngãduitor (compliant, facile, gracious, indulgent, kind, lenient, tolerant, yielding). (various references) больной (ailing, apoplectic, case, diseased, ill, inmate, out of health, sick, sore). (various references) eiridneach. (various references) pacijent, strpljiv, bolesnik, bolesnički. (various references) paciente (meek, tolerating). (various references) sikiman. (various references) mgonjwa. (various references) patient (case), tålig (enduring, heavy duty, long-suffering, proof, uncomplaining), tålmodig (enduring, forbearing, long-suffering, meek). (various references) sabırlı (enduring, long-suffering, tolerant, uncomplaining), hoşgörülü (broad, Clement, complaisant, decent, forgiving, gentle, indulgent, lenient, permissive, tolerant, wide open), hasta (ailing, buff, case, client, diseased, fan, fanatical, ill, in bad health, invalid, poorly, sick, sufferer, under the weather, unsound, unwell, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly), dayanıklı (cast iron, consolidated, durable, enduring, fast, firm, for hard wear, gritty, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, impervious, impregnable, indestructible, invulnerable, keeping, lasting, long lasting, nonperishable, proof, refractory, resistant, resistant to, resolute, runproof, sedulous, serviceable, sturdy, substantial, substantive, supportable, tough, unfading, wiry), ayırt edemeyen kimse. (various references) syrkaw (ill, ill person, illness), sabyrly. (various references) упертий (asinine, bullheaded, churlish, cobby, contumacious, cross-grained, difficile, disobedient, dogged, hard-nosed, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, rebellious, reluctant, restive, rowdy, self-opinionated, set, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), терплячий (bearing), наполегливий (aggressive, emphatic, emphatical, importune, insistent, obstinate, perseverant, persevering, persistent, pressing, sedulous, tenacious, unremitting, urgent), поранений (case, casualty, wounded), паці"нт (case). (various references) phù hợp với (conformable), nhẫn nại (forbearing, long-suffering), người bệnh, kiên nhẫn (forbearing, long-suffering, persevering), bền chí chịu đựng một cách kiên nhẫn có thể nhận. (various references) ymar.hous (dilatory, longsuffering), dioddefwr (sufferer), dioddefgar, claf (ill, sick, sick person), amyneddgar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aegros, aegrotos, aegrotum, aequa, aequae, aequi, aequis, aequo, aequum, aequusque, animaequior, animaequiores, curandi, curandum, infirmi, infirmis, infirmo, infirmos, infirmum, infirmus, longaminus, longanimis, patiens, patientem, patientes, patientia, patientibus, tolerabile, tolerabilius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 12, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Th elpidi caironteV th qliyei upomenonteV th proseuch proskarterounteV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Spe gaudentes in tribulatione patientes orationi instantes |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Sie bliðe on hyhte, geðyldige on hefignesse, getrywlice on gebede. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ioiynge in hope, pacient in tribulacioun, bisy in preier, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Reioyce in hope. Be paciet in tribulacion. Continue in prayer. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing earnest in prayer; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 12, Verse 12 |
| Bulgarian | Бъдете единомислени един към друг; не давайте ума си на високи неща, но предавайте се на скромни неща; не считайте себе си за мъдри. |
| Cebuano | Pagkalipay kamo diha sa inyong paglaum, pagpailub kamo sa panahon sa kagul-anan, lumahutay kamo sa pag-ampo. |
| Chinese | 在 指 望 中 要 喜 樂 ． 在 患 難 中 要 忍 耐 。 禱 告 要 恆 切 ． |
| Croatian | U nadi budite radosni, u nevolji strpljivi, u molitvi postojani! |
| Danish | værer glade i Håbet, udholdende i Trængselen, vedholdende i Bønnen! |
| Dutch | Verblijdt u in de hoop. Zijt geduldig in de verdrukking. Volhardt in het gebed. |
| Finnish | Olkaa toivossa iloiset, ahdistuksessa kärsivälliset, rukouksessa kestävät. |
| French | Réjouissez-vous en espérance. Soyez patients dans l`affliction. Persévérez dans la prière. |
| German | Seid fröhlich in Hoffnung, geduldig in Trübsal, haltet an am Gebet. |
| Haitian Creole | Pandan n'ap tann lan, fè kè n' kontan. Se pou nou gen anpil pasyans nan mitan soufrans nou yo. Pa janm sispann lapriyè. |
| Hungarian | A reménységben örvendezõk; a háborúságban tûrõk; a könyörgésben állhatatosak; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hendaklah Saudara berharap kepada Tuhan dengan gembira, sabarlah di dalam kesusahan, dan tekunlah berdoa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | sambil bersukacita di dalam pengharapan, bersabar di dalam sengsara dan bertekun di dalam doa. |
| Italian | Siate lieti nella speranza, forti nella tribolazione, perseveranti nella preghiera, |
| Korean | 소 망 중 에 즐 거 워 하 며 환 난 중 에 참 으 며 기 도 에 항 상 힘 " 며 |
| Latvian | Esiet priecîgi cerîbâ, pacietîgi bçdâs, pastâvîgi lûgðanâ! |
| Maori | Kia hari i runga i te tumanako; kia manawanui ki te whakapawera; kia u ki te inoi; |
| Modern Greek | εις την ελπιδα χαιροντες, εις την θλιψιν υπομενοντες, εις την προσευχην προσκαρτερουντες, |
| Norwegian | Vær glade i håpet, tålmodige i trengselen, vedholdende i bønnen. |
| Portuguese | alegrai-vos na esperança, sede pacientes na tribulação, perseverai na oração; |
| Rumanian | Bucurayi-vq kn nqdejde. Fiyi rqbdqtori kn necaz. Stqruiyi kn rugqciune. |
| Shuar | Ukunam Yus tsankatramkattajnia nu Enentáimtusrum warastarum. Wáitiakrumsha katsuntratarum. Tuke iniaitsuk Ashí Túrunamujai Yus áujsatarum. |
| Spanish | gozosos en la esperanza, pacientes en la tribulación, constantes en la oración; |
| Swahili | Tumaini lenu liwaweke daima wenye furaha; muwe na saburi katika shida na kusali daima. |
| Swedish | Varen glada i hoppet, tåliga i bedrövelsen, uthålliga i bönen. |
| Thai | จงชื่นชมยิน"ีในความหวัง จงอ"ทนต่อความยากลำบาก จงขะมักเขม้นอธิษฐาน |
| Ukrainian | тіштесь наді"ю, утиски терпіть, перебувайте в молитві, |
| Uma | Pakagoe' nono-ta, apa' moroho poncarumakaa-ta hi Pue'. Tari hi rala kasusaa'. Tida mosampaya. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "patient": patienter, patientest, patiently, patients. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "patient": impatient, inpatient, outpatient. (additional references) | |
Words containing "patient": impatiently, inpatients, outpatients. (additional references) | |
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"Patient" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pachent, pacient, paitend, paitent, paitient, parient, Pariente, partement, partient, pashen, pasient, Patane, pateint, patiant, patien, patienc, patiend, patiens, Patijn, patined, patint, pation, pationt, Patiwat, Patuxent, Paytine, perient, petient, pitieth, potient, satient. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "patient" (pronounced pā"shunt) |
| 6 | p ā" sh u n t | impatient. |
| 5 | -ā" sh u n t | abortifacient. |
| 4 | -sh u n t | beneficent, coefficient, deficient, efficient, inefficient, inpatient, insufficient, omniscient, outpatient, proficient, quotient, sufficient. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-p-t-t" | |
-1 letter: pantie, patent, patine, patten, pattie, pineta. | |
-2 letters: entia, inapt, inept, paint, paten, patin, petit, petti, pieta, pinta, taint, tenia, tinea, titan. | |
-3 letters: ante, anti, etna, nape, neap, neat, nett, nipa, nite, pain, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, pein, pent, pian, pina, pine, pint, pita, tain, tape, tate, teat, tent, tepa, tine, tint. | |
-4 letters: ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, ape, apt, ate, att, eat, eta, nae, nap, net, nip, nit, pan, pat, pea, pen, pet, pia, pie, pin, pit, tae, tan, tap, tat, tea, ten, tet, tie, tin, tip, tit. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, an, at, en, et, in, it, na, ne, pa, pe, pi, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-p-t-t" | |
+1 letter: antitype, patients, patinate, pittance, tinplate, triptane. | |
+2 letters: antitypes, crepitant, impatient, inpatient, paintiest, panettoni, pantheist, patenting, paternity, patienter, patiently, patinated, patinates, pattering, pectinate, pittances, plaintext, potential, tinplates, trepidant, triptanes. | |
+3 letters: anticipate, antilepton, antipoetic, antiseptic, attempting, constipate, deputation, impartment, inaptitude, inpatients, interparty, interplant, intraplate, outpainted, outpatient, palatinate, pantheists, pantsuited, pargetting, parturient, patientest, patterning, pentatonic, plaintexts, poinsettia, portamenti, potentials, potentiate, potentilla, pretasting, psittacine, reputation, spattering, spectating, temptation, thiopental, tripinnate, tryptamine, tympanites. | |
+4 letters: acceptation, antenuptial, anticipated, anticipates, antileptons, antipathies, antipoverty, antipyretic, antiseptics, antistrophe, appointment, attempering, centripetal, constipated, constipates, crepitating, crepitation, deportation, deputations, expatiating, expatiation, expectation, exportation, extirpating, extirpation, impartments, impatiently, impetrating, impetration, importunate, inaptitudes, intemperate, interplants, interpolate, kinetoplast, outpatients, pacesetting, palatinates, pantheistic, parenthetic, partitioned, partitioner, parturients, paternalist, paternities, patternings, pectination, penetrating, penetration, penetrative, penitential, pentlandite, penultimate, permutation, pertinacity, petitionary, poinsettias, pontificate, potentially, potentiated, potentiates, potentiator, potentillas, precipitant, pretreating, psittacines, repartition, reputations, retinopathy, spaghettini, splattering, spontaneity, stephanotis, tapestrying, temptations, thiopentals, trapnesting, trepanation, trepidation, tryptamines, typecasting. | |
+5 letters: acceptations, antientropic, antinepotism, antiparticle, antipathetic, antipredator, antipyretics, antistrophes, appointments, attorneyship, bespattering, crepitations, decapitating, decapitation, deportations, deputization, earsplitting, expatiations, expatriating, expatriation, expectations, explantation, exploitation, exportations, extirpations, impetrations, incapacitate, inspectorate, interpellate, interplanted, interpolated, interpolates, interpolator, kinetoplasts, metropolitan, nuptialities, operationist, pancreatitis, partitioners, paternalists, pathogenetic, pectinations, penetrations, penitentiary, pentapeptide, pentlandites, permutations, perpetrating, perpetration, perpetuating, perpetuation, perturbation, pestilential, petrifaction, pigmentation, placentation, pneumaticity, pontificated, pontificates, postaccident, potentiality, potentiating, potentiation, potentiators, practitioner, preadmitting, preallotting, precipitants, predestinate, presentation, presentative, preventative, privatdocent, privatdozent, protestation, putrefaction, reattempting, repartitions, repatriating, repatriation, repatterning, repetitional, replantation, repristinate, reputational, spaghettinis, stupefaction, superstation, transpontine, trepanations, trephination, trepidations, trichopteran, tripinnately, vituperating, vituperation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 74 69 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- - .. . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110100 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a t i e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0074 0069 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50678675718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Abbreviations 23. Acronyms 24. Derivations | 25. Rhymes 26. Anagrams 27. Orthography 28. Bibliography |
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