Compliance vs. Complaint: What's the Difference?

The act of complying with a wish, request, or demand; acquiescence.

An expression of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.

(Medicine) Willingness to follow a prescribed course of treatment.

A cause or reason for complaining; a grievance

A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others.

A bodily disorder or disease; a malady or ailment.

Extension or displacement of a loaded structure per unit load.

The symptom or distress about which a patient seeks medical assistance.

Flexibility.

A formal statement initiating a lawsuit by specifying the facts and legal grounds for the relief sought.

An act of complying.

A formal charge, made under oath, of the commission of a crime or other such offense.

(uncountable) The state of being compliant.

The act of complaining.

(uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.

A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern.

(mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility

(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.

(medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan

(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.

The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.

A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.

The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.

Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.

A disposition to yield to others; complaisance.

Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.

Acting according to certain accepted standards

An ailment or disease of the body.

Happy friendly agreement

A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.

A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

The act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another

(formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow

An expression of grievance or resentment

(civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based

(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense;