Consumer vs Patient - What's the difference?
consumer | patient |
One who, or that which, consumes.
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(biology) an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
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 consumer and patient
is that consumer is one who, or that which, consumes while patient is patient, someone who receives therapeutic treatment.consumer
English
(wikipedia consumer)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
- This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
Derived terms
* anticonsumer * consumerist * consumerismAntonyms
* (economics) and (biology): producerSee also
biology * carnivore * decomposer * detritivore * first-order consumer * herbivore * omnivore * producer * scavenger * second-order consumer English agent nouns ----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
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
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- Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient .