I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
passive resistance (= a way of protesting against something or opposing a government without using violence )
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Suffragettes resorted to passive resistance as the only weapon at their disposal.
passive resistance
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They tried to achieve their aims by passive resistance.
passive smoking
passive smoking (= breathing in smoke from other people’s cigarettes )
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the risks of passive smoking
passive voice
passive (= having the person or thing that the action is done to as the subject )
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Passive verbs may be necessary, but use them sparingly.
sb's passive vocabulary (= the words they can understand but do not use )
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Your passive vocabulary is much larger than your active vocabulary.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
relatively
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Underlying the sequence is a view of the learner as a relatively passive recipient of instruction.
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First, talking politics is an active form of political participation; mass media exposure is relatively passive .
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Measures of female aggression tend to be relatively passive , pencil and paper responses.
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Dominating such studies has been a tendency to perceive objects as being reflective in a relatively passive sense.
too
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I think a great problem is that parenting has become way too passive .
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Whether bound for work or college, this research suggests, many students are too passive .
■ NOUN
acceptance
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This school is too awful to deserve passive acceptance .
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Analytical reading of history texts should never permit a passive acceptance of other people's interpretations of the past.
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Yet because of their passive acceptance of the ministrations of their neighbours they become the focus of attention.
form
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Animacy is, however, only one of the factors which influences selection of a passive form to describe a particular situation.
recipient
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Underlying the sequence is a view of the learner as a relatively passive recipient of instruction.
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Simultaneously, women were conceptualised as the passive recipients of scientific manipulation.
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No longer passive recipients of instruction, pupils are encouraged to be active collaborators in the learning process.
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However, the railways are not passive recipients of such political pressure, but political actors and manipulators in their own right.
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The directly concerned populations are invariably viewed as passive recipients of plans.
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These reformers, however, were not passive recipients of a message from on high.
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Often they are organized by younger people who merely expect ageing members to be passive recipients of organized events.
resistance
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The Magdalen College affair, for example, provides a classic example of passive resistance .
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Nor could Edna forgive Jane her offensive passive resistance .
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Within the classroom too teachers have to live with an active or passive resistance to their best efforts.
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Open negativism turns into stony passive resistance .
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There was great resentment, and considerable passive resistance .
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But passive resistance doesn't work.
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You can either hit these germs with an antibiotic, or paralyse your bowels and win through passive resistance .
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Chancellor Cuno's government proclaimed a policy of passive resistance , which entailed unlimited subsidies to the population of the Ruhr.
role
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Roles Inspection by its nature casts teachers and schools in a passive role.
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The passive role of television viewers simply heightens its effect.
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The Independent Companies were therefore forced into a more passive role which nevertheless made a contribution to the main forces' campaigns.
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We ourselves had only a passive role .
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The female adopts a more passive role in conception than the male, and physiologically she has less to do.
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He had performed here many times in the past and the passive role was hard to take.
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The therapeutic approach has tended to cast Disabled people in very passive roles , initiated and controlled by non-Disabled professionals.
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Mrs Bloggs plays a passive role , adjusting to the situation.
sentence
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As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing, it is reasonable to ask why we need both.
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Subjects were told whether to produce an active or a passive sentence to describe the picture, and production latency was measured.
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In a literary essay, however, you should be cautious about leaving out the actor in a passive sentence .
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No distinction is made, for example, between active versus passive sentences .
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Another method of making a passive sentence active is to change the subject of the verb.
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The second advantage of passive sentences is that they have a different word order from active sentences.
smoking
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Or it may have been through passive smoking .
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This means that several hundred of the 40,000 deaths from lung cancer each year may be caused by passive smoking .
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An analysis of the 1987 survey was undertaken to estimate the dose-response relations of height and respiratory symptoms to passive smoking .
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The tobacco industry requested that Stivoro be stopped from propagating its position on passive smoking .
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Specialist medical evidence in the case showed that he had developed lung cancer as a result of active and passive smoking .
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Cotinine in the urine is a reliable indicator that the subject has been exposed to passive smoking .
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The authors conclude that the risk of respiratory conditions resulting from passive smoking , although small, is not negligible. 2.
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Their wickedness was emphasised by several large posters detailing the dangers of both active and passive smoking .
victim
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None the less, neither governments nor peoples are simply passive victims .
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You can become a passive victim of situations that are far beyond your control.
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We are not passive victims of the television set.
voice
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This hypothesis requires further analysis of the passive voice before it can be considered confirmed however.
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But, serious accidents can happen along the way when you use the passive voice .
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In the passive voice the subject does not do the action: it suffers the action.
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His prose is filled with active verbs and metaphors, instead of the passive voice and jargon frequently churned out by academics.
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Like most great rules, the rule against the passive voice has exceptions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
active/passive voice
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But, serious accidents can happen along the way when you use the passive voice .
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Explain the difference between the passive and active voice and wordy and concise word use as objectively as possible.
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In the active voice the subject of the sentence does the action.
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In the passive voice the subject does not do the action: it suffers the action.
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Secrets of the Passive Voice Revealed!
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This hypothesis requires further analysis of the passive voice before it can be considered confirmed however.
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Truth: Passive and active voice address a structural issue only-the relationship between the actor and the action in the sentence.
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Use only the active voice for procedures and employ it as much as possible for descriptions and operations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Emma plays far too passive a role in group discussions.
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The story's main female character is shown as an attractive but rather passive woman.
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The student's role in a traditional classroom learning environment is a passive one.
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You're too passive , Harry. You should just tell her you don't want to go.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An analysis of the 1987 survey was undertaken to estimate the dose-response relations of height and respiratory symptoms to passive smoking.
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Duffy refuses to fall into the trap of spoon-feeding the material to passive students, which only increases their passivity.
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Explain the difference between the passive and active voice and wordy and concise word use as objectively as possible.
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For decades it has cowed public employees, left them docile, passive , and bitter.
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Heat-sensing passive infra-red detectors with a fifty-feet range.
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Her licentiousness was entirely passive , reflecting not her own desires but those of the man she was with.
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The second, 1 Cor 6: 9-11, speaks about both the active and the passive participants in homosexual activity.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However subsequent research has shown that both negatives and passives are used in response to the presence of particular pragmatic factors.
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In fact, the passive has two particular advantages and these provide the reasons for its most characteristic uses.
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The number of passives produced in response to the different pictures varied considerably.
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When the acted-upon was thematic, 155 passives were produced, but when the actor was thematic, only 44 were produced.