passify
/ˈpæsɪfaɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The distinction between the two voices, active and passive, is easy enough to make. The way you "passify" a verb is to start out with some form of the auxiliary "to be" and follow the auxiliary with the past participle of the verb."
- "For non-passive systems, however, passivity-based control techniques cannot be used directly. One way of making nonpassive systems amenable to passivity-based control is to render such systems passive, i.e., to passify them[.]"
- "Finally, [the command] passify does not generate version-optimal programs; the notion of version-optimal passive form, which uses the [...]"
- "A passive investor invests in the market portfolio as if he shared the average belief of the investors. [...] Every investor has the choice to “passify” if he discovers himself to be a loser of the zero sum game."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpæsɪfaɪ/