Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - patience
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Patience
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1. If you have patience, you are able to stay calm and not get annoyed, for example when something takes a long time, or when someone is not doing what you want them to do. He doesn’t have the patience to wait... It was exacting work and required all his patience. ? impatience N-UNCOUNT 2. If someone tries your patience or tests your patience, they annoy you so much that it is very difficult for you to stay calm. He tended to stutter, which tried her patience... PHRASE: V inflects
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1.
noun Date: 13th century 1. the capacity, habit, or fact of being patient 2. chiefly British solitaire 2 ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 calm endurance of hardship, provocation, pain, delay, etc. 2 tolerant perseverance or forbearance. 3 the capacity for calm self-possessed waiting. 4 esp. Brit. a game for one player in which cards taken in random order have to be arranged in certain groups or sequences. Phrases and idioms have no patience with 1 be unable to tolerate. 2 be irritated by. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L patientia (as PATIENT) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. терпение, терпеливость I have no patience with him —- разг. он меня выводит из терпения to be out of patience with smb. —- потерять всякое терпение с кем-либо to try smb.'s patience —- испытывать чье-либо терпение his patience was severely tried —- его терпение подверглось жестокому испытанию to put smb. out of patience —- выводить кого-либо из терпения to exercise patience —- проявлять терпение, терпеть 2. настойчивость, упорство to labour with patience —- упорно трудиться 3. карт. псьянс to play patience —- раскладывать пасьянс Id: the patience of Job —- терпение Иова; ангельское терпение Id: patience of a monument —- воплощенное терпение ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) терпение, терпеливость; I have no patience with him - он меня выводит из терпения; I am out of patience with him - я потерял с ним всякое терпение 2) настойчивость 3) cards пасьянс; - play patience the patience of Job - ангельское терпение Syn: forbearance, long-suffering, masochism, resignation, stoicism, sufferance Ant: anger, impatience, militancy, restiveness, sadism ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 the ability to wait calmly for a long time and accept delays without becoming angry or anxious (You'll need patience if you want to be served in this shop. | Marianna listened to his story with patience.) 2 the ability to accept trouble and other people's annoying behaviour without complaining or becoming angry (have no patience with) (She has no patience with time-wasters. | lose patience (with) (=stop being patient and get angry)) (I'm beginning to lose patience with you people. | the patience of Job/the patience of a saint (=very great patience when someone is annoying you) | try sb's patience (=make someone lose their patience)) (Henry began to try Isabel's patience with his negative attitude.) 3 the ability to continue to give your attention to work that is difficult or tiring (have the patience to do sth) (I wouldn't have the patience to sit sewing all day.) 4 BrE a card game for one player; solitaire (3) AmE ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 12c., from O.Fr. pacience, from L. patientia, from patiens, prp. of pati "to suffer, endure." Meaning "card game for one person" is from 1816. Patient (adj.) is first attested c.1350, from L. patientem, acc. of patiens. Noun sense of "suffering or sick person" is from c.1385, from O.Fr. pacient (n.), from the adj., from L. patientem. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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