Difference between Behave and Obey

BEHAVE vs OBEY: VERB

Be obedient to
To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
To do as one is told.
To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).

To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self.
To conduct (oneself) properly.
To act, react, function, or perform in a particular way.
To conduct oneself in a proper way.
To conduct oneself in a specified way, especially in relation to others; exhibit behavior.

To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.
To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of.
To submit to the authority of; to be ruled by.
To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of.

Show a certain behavior
Absolutely, in a commendable or proper way; well or properly: as, behave yourself; they will not behave themselves.
Conduct or comport oneself
To govern; manage; conduct; regulate.
With a reflexive pronoun, to conduct, comport, acquit, or demean. In some specified way.
Absolutely, in a proper manner: as, why do you not behave?
In a particular manner, as specified: as, to behave well or ill; the ship behaves well.
[The reflexive pronoun omitted.] To act in any relation; have or exhibit a mode of action or conduct: used of persons, and also of things having motion or operation.
To employ or occupy.

To comply with the wishes or commands of; submit to, as in duty bound; be subject to; serve with dutifulness.
To comply with; carry out; perform; execute.
To submit to the power, control, or influence of: as, a ship obeys her helm.
To yield or give up; submit to power, authority, control, or influence; do as bidden or directed: as, will you obey? Formerly sometimes followed by to.
To submit (one's self).

Adopt, Proceed, Operate, Obey, Treat, Behavior, React, Deport, Bear, Carry, Acquit, Conduct, Comport, Do, Act

Respect, Implement, Conform, Fulfill, Respecting, Obedience, Behave, Observe, Follow, Uphold, Heed, Comply, Adhere, Abide, Disobey

Contain, Involve, Worry, Wise, Behaviour, Operate, Obey, Treat, Behavior, Deport, Bear, Carry, Conduct, Comport, Act

Listen, Read, Bend, Respect, Implement, Conform, Obedience, Observe, Follow, Uphold, Heed, Comply, Adhere, Abide, Disobey

Service Dogs should behave professionally at all times.
In fact, solid alkanes behave as water repellents.
It is even more important to behave respectfully.
Boys will then behave in a way that is _________________ and girls will behave in a way that is _________________.
You behave like a friend when they behave like a friend.
We cannot expect individuals in the past to know what we know or to behave as we behave.
We were carefully trained in how you behave in public, how you behave while travelling.
At all times people acting on behalf of the University must behave and be seen to behave in an impartial and transparent manner.
It creates incentives to behave in certain ways and not behave in others.
Children will behave as they are expected to behave.

The power to obey is actually in the one choosing to obey it and completely outside the law itself.
Horace Rumpole did not have to obey his wife, but he knew he had to obey her.
Danite band feel themselves as much bound to obey them as to obey the Supreme God.
Christians must sin in order to obey the law, then they must Obey God and be jailed if needed.
All events obey them, just as all operations with money obey the laws of arithmetic.
No one was forced or commanded to obey, as each has to obey willingly.
Obey Allah, and obey His Messenger and those who are in authority among you.
Eve: Adam, I now covenant to obey your law as you obey our Father.
People must be asked to obey laws that they can and will obey.
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