passively
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passively
- Passivement.
- Water flowed passively between tanks via the siphon. — (Brian D. Wisenden, "Scents of Danger", dans Animal Signals: signalling and signal design in animal communication, page 369, 2000)
- L’eau coulait passivement entre les réservoirs à travers le 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. — (Klaus Dieter Budras, et al., Anatomy of the Dog, page 188, 2007)
- D’une manière consentante.
- 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. — (Gary A. Olson, Todd W. Taylor, Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, page 218, 1997)
- 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. — (Wallace Collins, Dragon Fire, page 9, 1998)
- (Grammaire) Au passif.
- 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. — (Timothy J. Conlan, Alice M. Rivlin, & Paul L. Posner, Intergovernmental Management for the Twenty-first Century, page 214, 2008)
Apparentés étymologiques
- passive
- passiveness
- passivity
- passivisation, passivization
- passivise, passivize
Prononciation
- (États-Unis) : écouter « passively [Prononciation ?] »
- (Royaume-Uni), (États-Unis) : \ˈpæs.ɪv.li\
- (Australie) : écouter « passively [Prononciation ?] »
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