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单词 compliant
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Definition of compliant in English:

compliant

adjective kəmˈplʌɪəntkəmˈplaɪənt
  • 1Disposed to agree with others or obey rules, especially to an excessive degree; acquiescent.

    (尤指过分)服从的,遵从的;顺从的

    a compliant labour force

    顺从的劳动力。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was compliant to a point in my physical training.
    • At issue are those 15 days and whether the media was too compliant and trusting in generally agreeing to government blackout requests.
    • Were they too docile and too compliant, and did they fail to ask the skeptical questions and raise the objections they should have in the run-up to war?
    • Children are amazingly docile and compliant, obediently following the instructions of their elders as if they know no other way.
    • His anxiety proneness seems less pronounced now than it was in 1985, but in spite of this he proved to be abnormally suggestible, compliant and acquiescent.
    • If humans were generally always compliant to authority then ‘minimise hierarchy’ would present no problem.
    • The group is also concerned that excessive medication may be used to to make residents more compliant.
    • As soon as the band stops being compliant to what the record label needs them to churn out or start to under-perform they are sacked.
    • This is not a complaint about the dancers: they were talented, compliant to the choreography, energetic and committed.
    • Structured finance is extraordinarily flexible and, by its very nature, compliant to the wants and needs of the marketplace.
    • Has your student gone from predictably polite and compliant to moody and disagreeable?
    • Instead of saying this, however, I nodded like the compliant little girl he wanted me to be.
    • Ryan quickly learned the rules: stay silent, be compliant, don't look up, don't look out the window, don't speak unless spoken to.
    • As a bonus, the ingrained discipline and level of fitness of a dancer makes them generally compliant to hold poses for longer periods than the average client or model, without discomfort or complaint.
    • Lucia observed that he was compliant to the point of being a pushover.
    • You are logical and compliant but only to a degree.
    • Perhaps he had expected to find her still a compliant little girl, but he seemed visibly taken aback by her anger.
    • I did not form the view that he was excessively compliant.
    • Once that was done, they were supposed to revert to docile, compliant citizens, content to cooperate with allies no longer supportive of their aspirations.
    • Government employment figures, compliant journalists and even the public might start to believe that the vast profits made by the company are being used for ‘investing in people’.
    Synonyms
    acquiescent, amenable, biddable, tractable, complaisant, accommodating, cooperative, adaptable
    obedient, docile, manageable, malleable, pliable, pliant, flexible, submissive, dutiful, tame, meek, yielding, easily handled, like putty in one's hands, controllable, unresisting, unassertive, passive, governable, persuadable, manipulable
    informal, dated milky
    rare persuasible
  • 2often compliant withMeeting or in accordance with rules or standards.

    依从的;按照的,遵照的;符合的

    food that is compliant with safety regulations

    符合安全规定的食品。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For their part, consumers were to be informed, respectful, and compliant with the rules governing the purchase of goods in state and cooperative stores.
    • The source said the initiative would not suggest any changes to the measures used to assess whether national budgets were compliant with the rules of the stability pact.
    • Tests for dissolved oxygen were carried out at each freshwater site and all nine were compliant with the national standard set for this parameter.
    • As Opera is compliant with current web-design standards, there's no problem with it being able to display the vast majority of pages.
    • Producers are generally familiar with them and are compliant with the standards set in implementing them in Ireland.
    • All products resulting from this agreement will be compliant with ANSI T11 standards.
    • Nations fully compliant with the minimum standards in combating trafficking are graded tier one, while those unwilling and unable to counter the problem are graded tier three.
    • He said 75 disabled bays in the city are now compliant with the technical rules.
    • These new devices are fully compliant with previous official standards, so you can integrate them into your 802. 11g or b network without any problems.
    • Building software compliant with public standards will enable connectivity and interoperability even of diverse systems.
    • A statement released by the council yesterday explained that the water is now fully compliant with bathing water standards.
    • The fuel is kept in specially designed containers compliant with international standards.
    • All public water supplies in Laois were also fully compliant with the standards for ammonium, nitrate, nitrite, odour, pH and turbidity.
    • Another challenge is keeping track of materials used in all components all the way through the supply chain so that a company can prove the product is compliant to the regulations.
    • In addition, be aware that products compliant to the same standard may vary dramatically in performance.
    • The Food Safety Authority of Ireland is urging food businesses to be 100 per cent compliant with food safety legislation.
    • But a survey of chief executives last month found that one in six said their trusts would not be compliant with the new rules by the time they came into effect.
    • We accept that the consequence of becoming compliant with this standard is that more time must be spent on the way in which we record the outcome of our dealing with the public.
    • The FSAI has now stated that this business is fully compliant with all regulations and there was no threat to public health at any time.
    • The cars, of course, had been fitted with new exhaust systems, to make them compliant with anti-pollution regulations.
  • 3Physics Medicine
    Having the property of compliance.

    〔物理,医〕有可塑性的;柔量的

    the conversion of the gel to a much less compliant, rigid glass
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We found that Crs was highly correlated with birth weight and length, with larger babies having more compliant respiratory systems.
    • Tumors are more rigid than normal tissues, and palpation of compliant tissues to look for a rigid tissue mass has been used as a method of cancer detection for some time.
    • It is possible that a more compliant airway is involved in this effect, but this is impossible to determine without having measured airway pressures.
    • After single-lung transplantation for emphysema, ventilation favors the compliant, native lung.
    • The urinary bladder is an intra-abdominal structure with a compliant wall.

Derivatives

  • compliantly

  • adverb
    • I smiled unsurely back at him, and then compliantly replied to his comment about the disgustingness of our cafeteria's food, and soon enough a conversation had started.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘He planted a great collection of trees,’ he says finally, as he compliantly offers his inimitable profile to the photographer.
      • Artists and intellectuals are called upon not to offer critique or alternative visions but to sidle in compliantly amongst the lowest rungs of this same pantheon and so to boost its size and glory.
      • ‘Alright, alright,’ she murmured compliantly, not looking towards the purple-haired boy.
      • He stepped on the brake, and it slowed compliantly.

Rhymes

affiant, Bryant, client, defiant, giant, pliant, reliant

Definition of compliant in US English:

compliant

adjectivekəmˈplīəntkəmˈplaɪənt
  • 1Inclined to agree with others or obey rules, especially to an excessive degree; acquiescent.

    (尤指过分)服从的,遵从的;顺从的

    a compliant labor force

    顺从的劳动力。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Were they too docile and too compliant, and did they fail to ask the skeptical questions and raise the objections they should have in the run-up to war?
    • Lucia observed that he was compliant to the point of being a pushover.
    • This is not a complaint about the dancers: they were talented, compliant to the choreography, energetic and committed.
    • His anxiety proneness seems less pronounced now than it was in 1985, but in spite of this he proved to be abnormally suggestible, compliant and acquiescent.
    • Once that was done, they were supposed to revert to docile, compliant citizens, content to cooperate with allies no longer supportive of their aspirations.
    • Has your student gone from predictably polite and compliant to moody and disagreeable?
    • Perhaps he had expected to find her still a compliant little girl, but he seemed visibly taken aback by her anger.
    • If humans were generally always compliant to authority then ‘minimise hierarchy’ would present no problem.
    • Government employment figures, compliant journalists and even the public might start to believe that the vast profits made by the company are being used for ‘investing in people’.
    • I was compliant to a point in my physical training.
    • Instead of saying this, however, I nodded like the compliant little girl he wanted me to be.
    • Children are amazingly docile and compliant, obediently following the instructions of their elders as if they know no other way.
    • As a bonus, the ingrained discipline and level of fitness of a dancer makes them generally compliant to hold poses for longer periods than the average client or model, without discomfort or complaint.
    • At issue are those 15 days and whether the media was too compliant and trusting in generally agreeing to government blackout requests.
    • You are logical and compliant but only to a degree.
    • The group is also concerned that excessive medication may be used to to make residents more compliant.
    • Structured finance is extraordinarily flexible and, by its very nature, compliant to the wants and needs of the marketplace.
    • I did not form the view that he was excessively compliant.
    • As soon as the band stops being compliant to what the record label needs them to churn out or start to under-perform they are sacked.
    • Ryan quickly learned the rules: stay silent, be compliant, don't look up, don't look out the window, don't speak unless spoken to.
    Synonyms
    acquiescent, amenable, biddable, tractable, complaisant, accommodating, cooperative, adaptable
    1. 1.1often compliant with Meeting or in accordance with rules or standards.
      依从的;按照的,遵照的;符合的
      policies compliant with federal legislation and regulations
      the systems are Y2K compliant
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Nations fully compliant with the minimum standards in combating trafficking are graded tier one, while those unwilling and unable to counter the problem are graded tier three.
      • The fuel is kept in specially designed containers compliant with international standards.
      • These new devices are fully compliant with previous official standards, so you can integrate them into your 802. 11g or b network without any problems.
      • Another challenge is keeping track of materials used in all components all the way through the supply chain so that a company can prove the product is compliant to the regulations.
      • But a survey of chief executives last month found that one in six said their trusts would not be compliant with the new rules by the time they came into effect.
      • For their part, consumers were to be informed, respectful, and compliant with the rules governing the purchase of goods in state and cooperative stores.
      • The source said the initiative would not suggest any changes to the measures used to assess whether national budgets were compliant with the rules of the stability pact.
      • As Opera is compliant with current web-design standards, there's no problem with it being able to display the vast majority of pages.
      • In addition, be aware that products compliant to the same standard may vary dramatically in performance.
      • Tests for dissolved oxygen were carried out at each freshwater site and all nine were compliant with the national standard set for this parameter.
      • He said 75 disabled bays in the city are now compliant with the technical rules.
      • Producers are generally familiar with them and are compliant with the standards set in implementing them in Ireland.
      • A statement released by the council yesterday explained that the water is now fully compliant with bathing water standards.
      • Building software compliant with public standards will enable connectivity and interoperability even of diverse systems.
      • All products resulting from this agreement will be compliant with ANSI T11 standards.
      • We accept that the consequence of becoming compliant with this standard is that more time must be spent on the way in which we record the outcome of our dealing with the public.
      • The cars, of course, had been fitted with new exhaust systems, to make them compliant with anti-pollution regulations.
      • All public water supplies in Laois were also fully compliant with the standards for ammonium, nitrate, nitrite, odour, pH and turbidity.
      • The Food Safety Authority of Ireland is urging food businesses to be 100 per cent compliant with food safety legislation.
      • The FSAI has now stated that this business is fully compliant with all regulations and there was no threat to public health at any time.
  • 2Medicine Physics
    Having the property of compliance.

    〔物理,医〕有可塑性的;柔量的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After single-lung transplantation for emphysema, ventilation favors the compliant, native lung.
    • Tumors are more rigid than normal tissues, and palpation of compliant tissues to look for a rigid tissue mass has been used as a method of cancer detection for some time.
    • We found that Crs was highly correlated with birth weight and length, with larger babies having more compliant respiratory systems.
    • It is possible that a more compliant airway is involved in this effect, but this is impossible to determine without having measured airway pressures.
    • The urinary bladder is an intra-abdominal structure with a compliant wall.
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