Rely vs Comply - What's the difference?
rely | comply |
To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend.
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, title= To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform.
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(label) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
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(label) To fulfill; to accomplish.
(label) To enfold; to embrace.
* (1591-1674)
As verbs the difference between rely and comply
is that rely is to rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend while comply is to yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform.rely
English
Verb
Norway 0-1 England, passage=Hodgson also has Wayne Rooney to call on once he has served a two-match suspension at the start of the tournament - and it is abundantly clear England will rely as heavily as ever on his ability to shape the outcome of important games.}}
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
Derived terms
* rely on * rely upon * reliable * relianceAnagrams
*comply
English
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.