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Word: Passive
Speech Type: Adjective
late Middle English (in passive (sense 2 of the adjective), also in the sense ‘(exposed to) suffering, acted on by an external agency’): from Latin passivus, from pass- ‘suffered’, from the verb pati
ˈpasɪv
accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance
Short Definition:accepting what happens without active response
Examples:- the women were portrayed as passive victims
denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them).
Short Definition:denoting verbs in which the subject undergoes action of verb
(of a circuit or device) containing no source of electromotive force
Short Definition:containing no source of electromotive force
Examples:- a passive optical network is to be installed in 2000 homes
(of a metal) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide.
Short Definition:(of metal) made unreactive
Word: Passive
Speech Type: Noun
ˈpasɪv
a passive form of a verb.
Short Definition:passive verb
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