passively
advEtymology
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In a passive manner
In a passive manner; without conscious or self-directed action.
- Water flowed passively between tanks via the siphon.
- Due to this pressure aortic and pulmonary valves are opened passively and due to relaxation blood is sucked from the venae cavae into the atrium.
In an acquiescent manner
In an acquiescent manner; resignedly or submissively.
- Paradoxically, the same faculty who complain about busyness are most likely to end up waiting passively. While they acquiescently wait to write, they busy themselves with other, often trivial, activities.
- They were not waving at him but sat passively as if waiting to hear if what he had to say would be derogatory to their previous relationship.
In the passive voice
In the passive voice; having a passive construction.
- Statements phrased in an active voice, with a few outcome-oriented goals, improve school performance more than those stated passively with either multiple goals or goals focused on processes or behaviors.
The neighborhood
- neighborpassive
- neighborpassiveness
- neighborpassivisation
- neighborpassivization
- neighborpassivise
- neighborpassivize
- neighborpassivity
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at passively. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at passively. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at passively
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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