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A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.
Henry Cloud

Meaning of "passively" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PASSIVELY

passively  [ˈpæsɪvlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PASSIVELY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Passively is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES PASSIVELY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Passive

Passive may refer to: ▪ "Passive", by A Perfect Circle ▪ Passive voice, a grammatical voice common in many languages ▪ Passive house, a standard for energy efficiency in buildings ▪ Passive psi, psychic abilities involving cognition ▪ Passive language, a language from which an interpreter works ▪ Passivity a property of engineering systems, particularly in analog electronics and control systems ▪ Passivity, the condition of submitting to the influence of one's superior or superiors ▪ Passive–aggressive behavior, resistance to following through with expectations in interpersonal or occupational situations ▪ Passivation, process of making a material "passive" in relation to another material prior to using the materials together...

Definition of passively in the English dictionary

The definition of passively in the dictionary is without saying or doing anything.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PASSIVELY


adhesively
ədˈhiːsɪvlɪ
aggressively
əˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
comprehensively
ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪvlɪ
conclusively
kənˈkluːsɪvlɪ
decisively
dɪˈsaɪsɪvlɪ
defensively
dɪˈfɛnsɪvlɪ
dismissively
dɪsˈmɪsɪvlɪ
excessively
ɪkˈsesɪvlɪ
exclusively
ɪkˈskluːsɪvlɪ
expansively
ɪkˈspænsɪvlɪ
explosiveness
ɪkˈspləʊsɪvlɪ
extensively
ɪkˈstɛnsɪvlɪ
impassively
ɪmˈpæsɪvlɪ
impressively
ɪmˈprɛsɪvlɪ
intensively
ɪnˈtɛnsɪvlɪ
massively
ˈmæsɪvlɪ
offensively
əˈfɛnsɪvlɪ
progressively
prəˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
recursively
rɪˈkɜːsɪvlɪ
successively
səkˈsɛsɪvlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PASSIVELY

passions
Passiontide
passivate
passivation
passive
passive balance of trade
passive disobedience
passive euthanasia
passive obedience
passive resistance
passive restraint
passive safety
passive smoker
passive smoking
passive vocabulary
passive-aggressive
passiveness
passivism
passivist
passivity

WORDS THAT END LIKE PASSIVELY

actively
alternatively
collaboratively
collectively
comparatively
competitively
creatively
cumulatively
effectively
inductively
lively
lovely
negatively
objectively
positively
qualitatively
quantitatively
relatively
respectively
selectively
tentatively

Synonyms and antonyms of passively in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «passively» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PASSIVELY

Find out the translation of passively to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of passively from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «passively» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

被动
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pasivamente
570 millions of speakers

English

passively
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निष्क्रिय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بشكل سلبي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пассивно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

passivamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অক্রিয়ভাবে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

passivement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pasif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tatenlos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

受動的に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

수동적
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Passively
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thụ động
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பரபரப்பின்றி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निष्क्रीयपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pasif
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

passivamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pasywnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пасивно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pasiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παθητικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

passief
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

passivt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

passivt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of passively

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PASSIVELY»

The term «passively» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.468 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PASSIVELY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about passively

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10 QUOTES WITH «PASSIVELY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word passively.
1
Corazon Aquino
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
2
Henry Cloud
A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.
3
Charles Hodge
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
4
James Weldon Johnson
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
5
Tony Judt
I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me.
6
Andrew Luck
The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right.
7
John Maeda
As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.
8
Will Self
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.
9
Andy Taylor
To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.
10
Bradley Whitford
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PASSIVELY»

Discover the use of passively in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to passively and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Examining Cost Effectiveness of Actively and Passively ...
passively managed wetlands in southern Illinois, 2005 and 2006....................97 2.6 Estimated average seed biomass (kg/ha), standard errors (SE), and range of common waterfowl foods on actively and passively managed wetlands in southern ...
Amanda K. Pankau, 2008
2
Evaluation of Pigs Passively Immunized Against Porcine ...
Antibody rate of decay study To determine the rate at which passively administered antibody would decay post injection, a non-challenge study was conducted in which pigs were passively immunized with immune plasma into the peritoneal ...
Laura Kaniewski, 2007
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The Normal Dispersion Regime in Passively Mode-locked Fiber ...
In this chapter, a passively mode-locked fiber laser operating at 1μm is described , providing also the basis for the experiments with two saturable absorbers presented in chapter6. The chapter will start with the introduction of the experimental ...
Axel Rühl, 2008
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Complement, Passively Administered Antibodies, and Disease ...
Kileen Louise Mershon. 24. Kozel, T.R., Opsonization and Phagocytosis of Cryptococcus neoformans. Archives of Medical Research, 1993. 24(3): p. 21 1- 218. 25. Washburn, R.G., et al., Differences in Cryptococcus neoformans Capsular ...
Kileen Louise Mershon, 2008
5
Heat and Mass Transfer in Passively Aerated Compost
A novel mathematical model was proposed for the statistical comparison of temperature histories from composting trials, based on a modified Gompertz function that includes nonlinear, time-correlated effects.
Shouhai Yu, 2007
6
Flying Insects and Robots
Passively. Stable. Hovering. Flapping. Micro-Air. Vehicle. Floris. van. Breugel,. Zhi. Ern. Teoh,. and. Hod. Lipson ... the first passively stable 24 g hoverer capable of hovering flapping flight at a Reynolds number similar to insects (Re = 8,000).
Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mandyam V. Srinivasan, 2009
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Parenterally-administered, Passively Targeted Pulmonary Drug ...
The analysis of the data indicated that the novel targeting drug delivery system showed advantages in lung cancer therapy in the experimental model.
Pi-Yun Chao, 2006
8
Science of Composting
Design of Passively Aerated Compost Piles: Vertical Air Velocities between the Pipes Nancy J. Lynch and Robert S. Cherry - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory P.O. Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-2203 Abstract Our goal is to develop ...
Marco de Bertoldi, 1996
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The Handbook of Photonics, Second Edition
All of the passively Q-switched microlasers mentioned above operate on the ~ 1.06-um Nd3+ transition. Passively Q-switched microchip lasers operating on the 1.32-um (Keller 1996), 0.946-um (Zayhowski et al. 1996), and 1.074-um ...
Mool C. Gupta, John Ballato, 2006
10
Emotions Of Normal People
A second set of physiological relationships seems also to be present. The mother submits passively to the presence of the other organism within her own, by passively dominating all environmental influences which might tend to injure or attack ...
Marston, William Moulton, Marston William Moulton, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PASSIVELY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term passively is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rain catchment systems catching on
... including active harvesting that involves funneling rainwater into a large cistern for landscaping, directing water passively through berms and ... «Arizona Daily Sun, Jul 15»
2
Go global to build the perfect portfolio
Cheap index funds, which passively shadow various benchmarks, like the S&P 500 or the S&P/TSX composite, typically produce better results ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
3
Cellphone knows if you're depressed
We'll be able to passively and objectively measure behavior without a patient having to report this every day," said lead author Sohrob Saeb, ... «The Columbian, Jul 15»
4
Dan Morain: Newsom takes high road on marijuana
“I could sit back passively and abdicate responsibility, as so many politicians do,” Newsom said. “Or I could take some damned responsibility. «Sacramento Bee, Jul 15»
5
After 25 years, ADA still helping many Americans
Either passively or actively.” But “we're not there yet,” Brown said. The future goal would be to eliminate the phrase “people with disabilities” all ... «Grand Island Independent, Jul 15»
6
Cowardly act to judge victim on the Internet
... to criticize the city and the police and to make passively racist comments not aware that people who knew her may very well be reading this? «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
7
Hanging Yakub Memon will be a travesty of justice: Pakistan's ISI …
Prima facie this establishes the fact that even if anger and fear may have prompted the Memons to aid (or passively support) the bombings ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
8
Pride, marriage equality, and LGBTIQ liberation in the Philippines
Instead of passively accepting possible arrest, its clientele made up mostly of gay men, drag queens, butch dykes, and transgender people, ... «InterAksyon, Jul 15»
9
Ignoring Syrian Holocaust, Palestinian Ethnic Cleansing, the Zionist …
Crimes of this nature occur nearly every day as the world watches passively. According to human rights observers, more than 30,000 people in ... «Al-Jazeerah.info, Jul 15»
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Former Time Warner Chief Jerry Levin On Louisiana Theater …
Is there something here you think can mobilize Hollywood to not sit passively after another tragedy has touched the movie business? LEVIN: ... «Deadline, Jul 15»

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