Patient vs Mast - What's the difference?
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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
A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.
In naval tradition, a mast is a non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those in his command.
The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.
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(of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit.
(agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles.
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Patient is a initialism of mast.
As a noun patient
is patient, someone who receives therapeutic treatment.As a pronoun mast is
.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 .
Antonyms
* agentDerived terms
* inpatient * outpatient * patient role * patient of somethingSee also
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mast, from (etyl) , Irish adhmad.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
{{der3, foremast , mainmast , masthead , mizzenmast , before the mast}}See also
(other terms) * boom * crow's nest * flagpole * spar * top, maintop, foretop, mizzentop * tower * column * pole * pylon * towerEtymology 2
(etyl) , from West Germanic; probably related to meat.Noun
(en noun)- He would begin to pick up the seed-cases or mast , squeeze each one with his fingers to see if it were fertile, and drop it if it were not.
- Oak-mast , and beech, and cornel fruit, they eat.
- Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast .
