What's the difference between complaint and repine?

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.

Repine


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fail; to wane.
  • (v. i.) To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.
  • (n.) Vexation; mortification.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Repin found it the most powerful and poignant commission of his career, donating his fee to a memorial for the composer.
  • (2) Also hugely important is Ilya Repin’s portrait of Modest Mussorgsky, painted when the composer, at the age of 42, was at death’s door because of illness brought on by his chronic alcoholism.
  • (3) Repin with Framykoin reduced most effectively the number of micro-organisms for the longest period of time.
  • (4) Repin, one of the sesquiterpene lactones found in Russian knapweed, has been shown to possess high toxicity toward chick embryo sensory neurons.
  • (5) Since the isolation of phosphoglycerate kinase from yeast (Bücher, 1955) there have been several reports of purification methods yielding enzyme approaching molecular homogeneity, from rabbit muscle (Beisenherz et al., 1953; Czok and Bücher, 1960; Rao and Oesper, 1961; Avramov and Repin, 1965; and Scopes, 1969) and from chicken muscle (Gosselin-Rey, 1965).
  • (6) The authors compared three types of bandages (Repin with Traumacel, Repin with Framykoin and Repin alone).
  • (7) Figures such as Repin, Mikhail Vrubel and Alexander Serov are “spectacular” artists, said Blakesley but “relatively unsung in the west and deserve a higher profile”.
  • (8) He dispatched Repin, the most exciting Russian painter of his day, to a military hospital in St Petersberg to capture the composer before it was too late.
  • (9) One patient had avascular necrosis, one patient had bilateral chondrolysis, and two patients required repinning.
  • (10) The paper deals with the antimicrobial activity of repin bandages used commonly in periodontology.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Modest Mussorgsky by Ilia Repin, 1881.
  • (12) The company runs a free photo-sharing website which allows users to pin and repin images of objects of interest, which are then themed in a grid-like structure.
  • (13) In a limpid dining room are portraits of Tolstoy and his family by the painter Repin; round the corner is his 22,000-volume library; in the woods is his unmarked oblong grave.
  • (14) The possible causal relationship between repin and equine nigropallidial encephalomacia disease prompted a more complete structural assignment of repin, which was accomplished by X-ray and 1H-nmr analyses.