2006-09-12 20:24:49 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Well, I'd use context clues to identify which word was being used.
2006-09-12 20:32:54 · answer #1 · answered by truthyness 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A doctor has patients and and the patients should show patience in the waiting room. In effect, a patient should be patient.
2006-09-13 03:27:40 · answer #2 · answered by Walter W. Krijthe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Patients are people admitted to a hospital or seeing a doctor. Patience is what you use when dealing with an irritating person.
2006-09-13 03:29:09 · answer #3 · answered by phoenixheat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By how they're spelled. Patients are those in a doctor's care, while patience is what is needed to wait for a favorable outcome.
2006-09-13 03:27:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Patients - people awaiting or under medical care and treatment
Patience - the capacity, habit, or fact of being "patient" - bearing pains or trials calmly or without complain.
2006-09-13 03:30:27 · answer #5 · answered by SassyGurl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By looking at it.. patients looks like patients
and patience looks like patience.
for everything else there is dictionary.
2006-09-13 05:40:17 · answer #6 · answered by Amrendra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
G'day Volcom,
Thanks for your question.
Patients is a plural of patient which means "one who receives medical attention, care, or treatment."
Patience is defined in the American Heritage Dictionary on Yahoo! as "the capacity, quality, or fact of being patient. "
This is patient as an adjective which means"
1. Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness.
2. Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance.
3. Tolerant; understanding: an unfailingly patient leader and guide.
4. Persevering; constant: With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive.
5. Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.
6. Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance: "My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries" (Laurence Sterne).
I have attached sources for your reference.
Regards
2006-09-13 03:34:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
patients r those who r suffering from some disease and patience is the quality that a patient must have to fight with that disease
2006-09-13 03:38:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have asked alot of these word questions on this site today.
I suggest you invest in a good dictionary which will save you time and not make you look a silly as you do at the momement with you daft questions..........
2006-09-13 03:52:43 · answer #9 · answered by nitpicker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A patient or patients is something that you are.
Patience is something that you have.
2006-09-13 03:28:00 · answer #10 · answered by Rvn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SIMPLE...
Patience is a girls name.
Patients are those things which belong to Patience.
2006-09-13 03:30:19 · answer #11 · answered by Pretorian 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋