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Distemper vs Complaint - What's the difference?

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Distemper is a related term of complaint.


As nouns the difference between distemper and complaint

is that distemper is (veterinary medicine|pathology) a viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh while complaint is a grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern; the act of complaining.

As a verb distemper

is to temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

distemper

English

Noun

(wikipedia distemper) (en noun)
  • (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
  • (archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.
  • * 1719- (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
  • A water-based paint.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • A painting produced with this kind of paint.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
    • (Chaucer)
  • To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Buckminster
    • The imagination, when completely distempered , is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
  • To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
  • * Coleridge
    • distempered spirits
  • To intoxicate.
  • * Massinger
    • The courtiers reeling, / And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered , / But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing.
  • To paint using distemper.
  • To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
    • to distemper colors with size

    Conjugation

    (en-conj-simple)

    complaint

    English

    (wikipedia complaint)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern; the act of complaining.
    • I have no complaints about the quality of his work, but I don't enjoy his company.
  • (legal) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based;
    The purpose is to give notice to the adversary of the nature and basis of the claim asserted.
  • (legal) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.
    However, court proceedings, such as a trial, cannot be instituted until an indictment or information has been handed down against the defendant.
  • A consumer complaint.
  • A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
    • Don't come too close, I've got this nasty complaint .

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