passive : Idioms & Phrases


passive air defense

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.
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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.
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passive resistance

  • noun peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate
    nonviolence; nonviolent resistance.
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passive resister

  • noun a reformer who believes in passive resistance
    non-resistant.
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passive source

  • 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

  • noun transport of a substance across a cell membrane by diffusion; expenditure of energy is not required
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passive trust

  • 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.
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passive voice

  • 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
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