Patient vs. Calm — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Patient and Calm
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Definitions
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.
Calm➦
Not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions
She had to keep calm at all costs
His voice was calm
Patient➦
Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness
Tried to remain patient when the airline announced the flight was delayed.
Calm➦
(of the weather) pleasantly free from wind
The night was clear and calm
Patient➦
Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance
Responded to the accusations with a patient smile.
Calm➦
The absence of strong emotions; calm feelings
His usual calm deserted him
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Patient➦
Tolerant; understanding
An unfailingly patient leader and guide.
Calm➦
The absence of wind
In the centre of the storm calm prevailed
Patient➦
Persevering; constant
With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive.
Calm➦
Make (someone) tranquil and quiet; soothe
I took him inside and tried to calm him down
Patient➦
Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.
Calm➦
Nearly or completely motionless; undisturbed
The calm surface of the lake.
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Patient➦
Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance
“My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries” (Laurence Sterne).
Calm➦
Not excited or agitated; composed
The president was calm throughout the global crisis.
Patient➦
One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.
Calm➦
An absence or cessation of motion; stillness.
Patient➦
(Linguistics) A noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action. Also called goal.
Calm➦
A condition of no wind or a wind with a speed of less than 1 knot (1.15 miles per hour; 1.9 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.
Patient➦
(Obsolete) One who suffers.
Calm➦
Tranquility or serenity
"an unaccustomed reticence that I took to be the calm that follows rage" (Jeanne Marie Laskas).
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.
Calm➦
To make or become calm or quiet
A warm bath will calm you. After the storm, the air calmed.
Patient➦
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
Patient endeavour
A patient wait
Patient analysis
Calm➦
(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
Patient➦
(obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
Calm➦
(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
Patient➦
A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
Calm➦
(of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
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.
Calm➦
Without wind or storm.
Patient➦
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Calm➦
(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
Patient➦
Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
Patient of severest toil and hardship.
Calm➦
(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
Patient➦
Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
Calm➦
A period of time without wind.
Patient➦
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
Calm➦
(transitive) To make calm.
To calm a crying baby
To calm the passions
Patient➦
Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
Not patient to expect the turns of fate.
Calm➦
(intransitive) To become calm.
Patient➦
Forbearing; long-suffering.
Be patient toward all men.
Calm➦
Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.
The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
A calm before a storm is commonly a peace of a man's own making.
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.
Calm➦
To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.
To calm the tempest raised by Eolus.
Patient➦
A person under medical or surgical treatment; - correlative to physician or nurse.
Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever.
Calm➦
To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.
Passions which seem somewhat calmed.
Patient➦
To compose, to calm.
Calm➦
Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.
Now all is calm, and fresh, and still.
Patient➦
A person who requires medical care;
The number of emergency patients has grown rapidly
Calm➦
Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.
Such calm old age as conscience pureAnd self-commanding hearts ensure.
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
Calm➦
Steadiness of mind under stress;
He accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity
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
Calm➦
Make calm or still;
Quiet the dragons of worry and fear
Patient➦
Enduring without protest or complaint
Calm➦
Make steady;
Steady yourself
Calm➦
Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation;
After the fight both men need to cool off.
It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again.
Calm➦
Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to;
The patient must be sedated before the operation
Calm➦
Not agitated; without losing self-possession;
Spoke in a calm voice
Remained calm throughout the uproar
Calm➦
Characterized by absence of emotional agitation;
Calm acceptance of the inevitable
Remained serene in the midst of turbulence
A serene expression on her face
She became more tranquil
Tranquil life in the country
Calm➦
(of weather) free from storm or wind;
Calm seas
Calm➦
Marked by freedom from agitation or excitement;
The rioters gradually became calm and slowly dispersed
