Comply vs Gel - What's the difference?
comply | gel |
To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
* 1664? , , (Hudibras)
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= *
(label) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
* 1599 , , II. ii. 371:
(label) To fulfill; to accomplish.
(label) To enfold; to embrace.
* (1591-1674)
A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
To become a gel.
To develop a rapport.
As a verb comply
is to yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform.As an initialism gel is
lari, the currency used in georgia.comply
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Verb
(en-verb)- Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply , / Scandalous or forbidden in our law.
- They did servilely comply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images.
- He that complies against his will / Is of his own opinion still.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied .}}
- Let me comply with you in this / garb, lest my extent to the players, which I tell you must / show fairly outwards, should more appear like entertainment / than yours.
- (Chapman)
- Seemed to comply , / Cloudlike, the daintie deitie.
Usage notes
* Usually followed by "with".Antonyms
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(wikipedia gel)Etymology 1
Coined by in the mid 19th century as a clipping of (gelatin), from (etyl)Noun
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}