Meaning of complement | Babel Free

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1. Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
   countable, uncountable
2. The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
3. The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
   countable, uncountable
4. To serve as a complement to: Roses in a silver bowl complement the handsome cherry table.
5. The whole working force of a vessel
6. The whole working force of a vessel.
   countable, uncountable
7. To supply what is lacking:complete, fill in (or out), round (off or out), supplement.
   or
8. An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle
9. An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
   countable, uncountable
10. to complete, fill up. afhandel, afrond, vervolledig, voltooi; uitvoer; invul يُكَمِّل، يَمْلأ допълвам completar doplnit ergänzen udfylde; fylde op συμπληρώνωcomplementar täiendama کامل کردن täydentää compléter לְהַשלִים किसी को पूर्ण करना učiniti potpunim, biti dopuna kiegészít melengkapi fylla (upp) completare 補う 완전하게 하다, 보충하다 papildyti papildināt melengkapkan completerenfullstendiggjøre, utfylle, fylle opp dopełniać تکمیلول completar a completa дополнять doplniť dopolniti dzavršiti komplet...
11. Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition
12. Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
    countable, uncountable
13. A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
    countable, uncountable
14. aanvullend, aanvullings=, komplementêr مُكَمِّل، مُتَمِّم допълнителен complementar doplňkový, doplňující se Ergänzungs-..., komplementär supplerende συμπληρωματικόςcomplementario täiendav مکمل؛ تکمیلی täydentävä complémentaireמשלים समपूरक dopunski, komplementaran (egymást) kiegészítő pelengkap uppbótar-; sem bæta hver annan upp complementare 補足的な 보충적인 papildantis papildu- saling melengkapi complementairutfyllende, supplerende dopełniający تکمیلی complementar complementar дополнительный dopln...
15. A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object
16. A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
    countable, uncountable
17. complemento, sustancia proteínica presente en el plasma que destruye las bacterias y las células con que se pone en contacto.
18. An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
    countable, uncountable
19. Something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection: a sauce that is a fine complement to fish.
20. The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
    countable, uncountable
21. An angle related to another so that the sum of their measures is 90°.
22. Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
    countable, uncountable
23. Grammar A word or words used to complete a predicate construction, especially the object or indirect object of a verb, for example, the phrase to eat ice cream in We like to eat ice cream.
    Grammar
24. One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
    countable, uncountable
25. Music An interval that completes an octave when added to a given interval.
    Music
26. An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
    countable, uncountable
27. Immunology A complex system of proteins found in blood plasma that are sequentially activated and play various roles in the immune response, including lysing bacterial cell membranes, making pathogens more susceptible to phagocytes, and recruiting inflammatory cells to sites of infection or injury. Also called alexin.
    Immunology
28. A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
    countable, uncountable
29. A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
    countable, uncountable
30. The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
    countable, uncountable
31. The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
    countable, uncountable
32. The numeric complement of a number.
    countable, uncountable
33. A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
    countable, uncountable
34. Synonym of alexin.
    countable, uncountable
35. Abbreviation of complementary good.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
36. Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
37. The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
38. Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.”

“Some 11 members of Somerton council's complement of 15 stepped down on Tuesday.”

“History is the complement of poetry.”

“It would be too much to imagine that improving stations will alone create a much needed new image in the public eye; a smartly turned out station staff is a very necessary complement to a smart station.”

“London's Kings Place, now one year old, established itself as a venue for imaginative programming, a complement to the evergreen Wigmore Hall.”

“Why has our grammar broken down at this point? It is not difficult to see why. For, we have failed to make any provision for the fact that only some Verbs in English (i.e. Verbs like those italicized in (5) (a), traditionally called Transitive Verbs) subcategorize ( = ‘takeʼ) an immediately following NP Complement, whereas others (such as those italicised in (5) (b), traditionally referred to as Intransitive Verbs) do not.”

“The complement of blue is orange.”

“The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers.”

“The complement of 01100101#95;2 is 10011010#95;2.”

“The complement of 01100101#95;2 is 10011011#95;2.”

“The complement of −123 is 123.”

“A DNA molecule is formed from two strands, each of which is the complement of the other.”

“perform all those works of mercy, which Clemens Alexandrinus calls amoris et amicitiæ impletionem et extentionem, the extent and complement of love[…].”

“And both encreast the prayse of woman kynde, / And both encreast her beautie excellent: / So all did make in her a perfect complement.”

“A doleful case desires a doleful song, Without vain art or curious complements.”

“Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,”

“A man should be judged by himselfe, and not by his complements.”

“A man of complements”

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