Client vs. Patient — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Client and Patient
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Client
A person or organization using the services of a lawyer or other professional person or company
Insurance tailor-made to a client's specific requirements
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.
Client
(in a network) a desktop computer or workstation that is capable of obtaining information and applications from a server
Workstation clients are going to be easy to install
Patient
Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness
Tried to remain patient when the airline announced the flight was delayed.
Client
(in ancient Rome) a plebeian under the protection of a patrician.
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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.
Client
The party for which professional services are rendered, as by an attorney.
Patient
Tolerant; understanding
An unfailingly patient leader and guide.
Client
A customer or patron
Clients of the hotel.
Patient
Persevering; constant
With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive.
Client
A person using the services of a social services agency.
Patient
Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.
Client
One that depends on the protection of another.
Patient
Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance
“My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries” (Laurence Sterne).
Client
A client state.
Patient
One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.
Client
(Computers) A computer or program that can download files for manipulation, run applications, or request application-based services from a file server.
Patient
(Linguistics) A noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action. Also called goal.
Client
A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
Patient
(Obsolete) One who suffers.
Client
(computing) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
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.
Client
A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.
Patient
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
Patient endeavour
A patient wait
Patient analysis
Client
(legal) A person who employs or retains an attorney to represent him or her in any legal matter, or one who merely divulges confidential matters to an attorney while pursuing professional assistance without subsequently retaining the attorney.
Patient
(obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
Client
A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.
Patient
A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
Client
A dependent; one under the protection of another.
I do think they are your friends and clients,And fearful to disturb you.
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.
Client
One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.
Patient
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Client
A person who seeks the advice of a lawyer
Patient
Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
Patient of severest toil and hardship.
Client
Someone who pays for goods or services
Patient
Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
Client
(computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
Patient
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
Patient
Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
Not patient to expect the turns of fate.
Patient
Forbearing; long-suffering.
Be patient toward all men.
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.
Patient
A person under medical or surgical treatment; - correlative to physician or nurse.
Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever.
Patient
To compose, to calm.
Patient
A person who requires medical care;
The number of emergency patients has grown rapidly
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
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
Patient
Enduring without protest or complaint
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