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Bookmark or Share- comply with/to | WordReference ForumsEnglish - South-East England. Mar 25, 2015. #2. In the British National Corpus, "comply with" has 1158 occurrences and "comply to" has seven (of which six are relevant). 'Comply to', when it is used, is followed by official documents of some kind: comply to a standard, regulations, guidelines, and so on. 'Comply with' is also freely used with ...
- compliance with/to - WordReference ForumsOne way to memorise this is to know a little about Latin: "com" was the Latin word for "with" and "ad" was the Latin word for "to". We com ply with regulations but ad here to regulations. Note. Most people who haven't had a classical education don't know this so you will hear some people saying, e.g. "compare to" and others saying "compare with".
- Comply vs conform vs comport - WordReference ForumsComply: to conform, submit, or adapt (as to a regulation or to another's wishes) as required or requested
. Comport: to be fitting : accord . So, basically, can I use "comport/comply with a rules" in place of "conform to a rules"? - obey/abide by/observe/comply - WordReference ForumsThese all mean the same thing, but the first is more forceful than the others. The use of "obey" implies that the "request" will be enforced (by the law, by those in powerful positions). "Abide by" is rather old fashioned and less forceful. As for "observe", although it means the same as the other words I would not say "please observe my ...
- EN: comply, compliant + with / to - WordReference ForumsHello everybody, I happen to live with an English guy in the UK and I was talking with him lately about homologation and conformity and during the discussion he said: "They have to comply to the standards"... I have always been convinced, and did not find anything about that on WR, that it was...
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