What's the difference between complaint and peep?

Complaint


Definition:

  • (n.) Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.
  • (n.) Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.
  • (n.) An ailment or disease of the body.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
  • (2) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
  • (3) The most common patient complaint before starting therapy was shortness of breath.
  • (4) A 45-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever and lumbago.
  • (5) The extent of the abnormality usually does not correlate with the patient's complaints.
  • (6) Canvassing previous Labour voters who were pro-independence or still undecided during the referendum, McGarry hears complaints that the party is no longer socialist and should not have sided with the Tories at the referendum.
  • (7) The early results up to 20 month after surgery in 11 patients are encouraging, especially according to subjective complaints.
  • (8) RBS had received complaints from two clients, in October 2010 and January 2012, about the activities of forex traders and in November 2011 one of its own traders raised concerns, which were not heeded.
  • (9) Intoxication produces a constellation of symptoms, with paresthesias and generalized muscle weakness being common complaints.
  • (10) They also claim their electricity and water were cut off, despite frequent official complaints to police, who Lessena said served as middlemen between the owners and the tenants.
  • (11) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
  • (12) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
  • (13) According to Australian Associated Press the woman made an official complaint to police on Wednesday morning and supplied some evidence.
  • (14) He came to our hospital with the chief complaint of discomfort of the anterior chest.
  • (15) A 58-year-old man visited the urological clinic in Prefectural Tohkamachi Hospital with complaint of swelling of bilateral scrotal contents.
  • (16) Méndez said that while his office was currently "getting so much business from the United Kingdom", the manner in which the country's government responds to complaints about human rights violations had what he described as a "precedent-setting potential" for other states.
  • (17) The complaint was rejected even though the handler did not have access to any information about the sale.
  • (18) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.
  • (19) These results are likely to underestimate the true number of complaints because participants may be withdrawn (e.g., deaths, losses to follow-up, and refusals) before they ever complain of an adverse effect.
  • (20) Another forward, Manchester United's Danny Welbeck, is a major doubt for the game with a knee complaint.

Peep


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.
  • (v. i.) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.
  • (v. i.) To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.
  • (n.) The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.
  • (n.) First outlook or appearance.
  • (n.) A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.
  • (n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).
  • (n.) The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
  • (2) LTV was found to be decreased in animals treated with PEEP.
  • (3) Decreasing inadvertent PEEP by lengthening the expiratory time increased the compliance of the respiratory system (r = -0.74, n = 10, P less than 0.02).
  • (4) Experiments in volume- expanded healthy volunteers also suggest that CMV with PEEP is able to depress plasma levels of alpha-ANP.
  • (5) Most of these patients were managed without paralysis using intermittent mandatory ventilation and positive-end expiratory pressure (PEEP).
  • (6) The effects on gas exchange and hemodynamics were compared with those of CPPV with PEEP, with the premise that CNPV might sustain venous return and improve QT.
  • (7) Selective PEEP caused a larger volume increase in the dependent lung than general PEEP.
  • (8) In seven patients with severe respiratory distress, conventional mechanical ventilation and PEEP were used initially for respiratory support, which was changed to high-frequency percussive ventilation (HFPV) at the same level of airway pressure and FIO2.
  • (9) Oxygenation improved in both groups during the resolution of oedema with a more evident and early effect in the PEEP group.
  • (10) While PEEP decreased, both PA--PEEP and VT increased with increasing diameter of stenosis.
  • (11) Five different ventilatory patterns were used for reinflation: simulated normal breathing with and without continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), simulated deep breathing and mechanical ventilation with and without positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP).
  • (12) Hence, Paw was a major determinant of oxygenation, although a PEEP greater than Pflex appeared necessary to optimize oxygenation at a constant Paw.
  • (13) Continued hemodynamic and pulmonary monitoring of patients is mandatory when using PEEP.
  • (14) Four of the patients (14 percent) developed a pneumothorax following institution of high PEEP therapy.
  • (15) Although PEEP, SN, and EMB all increased mean pulmonary arterial pressure, PEEP, had negligible effect on Zc and Ca, whereas SN increased Zc but decreased Ca (+24% and -49%, respectively), and EMB decreased both Zc and Ca (-33% and -39%, respectively).
  • (16) However, during both hypercapnia and PEEP, length changes of the external oblique were significantly greater than those of the rectus abdominis.
  • (17) Not for them clipboards, iPads and a rolled-up copy of the New Statesman peeping out of their pockets.
  • (18) This study was performed to determine the clinical application of this technique in critically ill patients on PEEP.
  • (19) When the left renal vein was occluded and the RVP was maintained at the level seen during 20 cm H2O of PEEP, left RBF recovered only 50% of the difference from the flow during zero PEEP.
  • (20) At a PEEP of 8 cm H2O, cardiac performance was impaired significantly, with a profound decrease of the systemic and pulmonary blood flow, SVRV and SVLV and a reflectory increase of the Rs.