comply
verbEtymology
From Italian complire, Catalan complir (“to complete, fulfil; to carry out”), Spanish cumplir (“to complete, fulfil”), (alternatively from Old French compli), from Latin complēre, from compleō (“to finish, complete; to fulfil”), from com- (prefix indicating completeness of an act) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, near; by, with”)) + pleō (“to fill; to fulfil”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). The word is very close to the French verb complaire which means to satisfy or to please. The word is also cognate with Old French complir (“to accomplish, complete; to do”) (modern French accomplir (“to accomplish, achieve”)). Compare complete, compliment.
Definitions
To yield assent
To yield assent; to accord; to acquiesce, agree, consent; to adapt oneself, to conform.
- comply with rules
- comply fully
- failure to comply
To accomplish, to fulfil.
To be ceremoniously courteous
To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
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To enfold
To enfold; to embrace.
- And then a rug of carded wooll, / Which, spunge-like, drinking in the dull / Light of the moon, seem'd to comply, / Cloud-like, the daintie deitie.
The neighborhood
- neighboraccomplish
- neighborcomplete
- neighborcompliment
Derived
compliable, compliance, compliancy, compliant, complier, complyingly, no comply, recomply, wilco
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at comply. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at comply. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at comply
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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