Agent vs. Patient — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Agent and Patient
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Agent
A person who acts on behalf of another person or group
In the event of illness, a durable power of attorney enabled her nephew to act as her agent
Patient
A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, psychologist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health care provider.
Agent
A person or thing that takes an active role or produces a specified effect
Universities are usually liberal communities that often view themselves as agents of social change
Patient
Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness
Tried to remain patient when the airline announced the flight was delayed.
Agent
One that acts or has the power or authority to act.
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Patient
Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance
Responded to the accusations with a patient smile.
Agent
One empowered to act for or represent another
An author's agent.
An insurance agent.
Patient
Tolerant; understanding
An unfailingly patient leader and guide.
Agent
A means by which something is done or caused; an instrument.
Patient
Persevering; constant
With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive.
Agent
A force or substance that causes a change
A chemical agent.
An infectious agent.
Patient
Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.
Agent
A representative or official of a government or administrative department of a government
An FBI agent.
Patient
Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance
“My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries” (Laurence Sterne).
Agent
A spy.
Patient
One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.
Agent
(Linguistics) The argument that expresses the means or cause of an action or event described by a phrase or clause. The noun John is the agent in the clause John threw the ball.
Patient
(Linguistics) A noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action. Also called goal.
Agent
To act as an agent or representative for
Who will agent your next book?.
Patient
(Obsolete) One who suffers.
Agent
To act as an agent or representative.
Patient
(of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.
Agent
One who exerts power, or has the power to act
Patient
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
Patient endeavour
A patient wait
Patient analysis
Agent
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to do the business of another
Patient
(obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
Agent
A person who looks for work for another person
Patient
A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
Agent
Someone who works for an intelligence agency
Patient
The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
Agent
An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect
Patient
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Agent
(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
Patient
Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
Patient of severest toil and hardship.
Agent
(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
Patient
Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
Agent
(gambling) A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff.
Patient
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
Agent
Acting; - opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.
Patient
Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
Not patient to expect the turns of fate.
Agent
One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill.
Patient
Forbearing; long-suffering.
Be patient toward all men.
Agent
One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
Patient
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient.
Agent
An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect, such as a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.
Patient
A person under medical or surgical treatment; - correlative to physician or nurse.
Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever.
Agent
A chemical substance having biological effects; a drug.
Patient
To compose, to calm.
Agent
An active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect;
Their research uncovered new disease agents
Patient
A person who requires medical care;
The number of emergency patients has grown rapidly
Agent
A substance that exerts some force or effect
Patient
The semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
Agent
A representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations
Patient
Enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance;
A patient smile
Was patient with the children
An exact and patient scientist
Please be patient
Agent
A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
Patient
Enduring without protest or complaint
Agent
Any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau
Agent
The semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the hapening denoted by the verb in the clause
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