Casualties vs Patient - What's the difference?
casualties | patient |
English plurals
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Collective tally of injuries and fatalities of an event.
Content to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
* Sir Isaac Newton
(obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
* Bishop Fell
A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
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(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.
* Gov. of Tongue
As nouns the difference between casualties and patient
is that casualties is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals while patient is a person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.As an adjective patient is
content to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.casualties
English
(wikipedia casualties)Noun
(head)- On July 8, an American C-47 crashed into a mountain west of Wiesbaden, killing everyone on board, the mission's first casualties .
Anagrams
*patient
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- 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
Synonyms
* composedAntonyms
* impatient * antsyDerived terms
* patientlyNoun
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- Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient .