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complement

English

Etymology

From Middle English complement, from Latin complementum (that which fills up or completes), from comple? (I fill up, I complete) (English complete). Doublet of compliment.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k?mpl?m?nt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?k?mpl?m?nt/
  • Homophone: compliment (in some dialects)

Noun

complement (countable and uncountable, plural complements)

  1. (now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. [from 14th c.]
    • :
      perform all those works of mercy, which Clemens Alexandrinus calls amoris et amicitiæ impletionem et extentionem, the extent and complement of love [].
  2. (obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. [15th-18th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
      And both encreast the prayse of woman kynde, / And both encreast her beautie excellent: / So all did make in her a perfect complement.
  3. The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. [from 16th c.]
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
      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.
    • 2009, The Guardian, 30 October:
      Some 11 members of Somerton council's complement of 15 stepped down on Tuesday.
  4. (obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. [16th-17th c.]
    • 1591, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Muses [The Tears of the Muses]: Polyhymnia”:
      A doleful case desires a doleful song,
      Without vain art or curious complements.
    • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 2:
      Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,
  5. (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
  6. (heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). [from 17th c.]
    • 1912, Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry, p.33:
      The sixth Bishop of Ely had very curious arms, for he bore both sun and moon on his shield, the sun "in his splendour" and the moon "in her complement".
  7. (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. [from 18th c.]
  8. 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. [from 19th c.]
    • 1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading
      History is the complement of poetry.
    • 2009, The Guardian, 13 December:
      London's Kings Place, now one year old, established itself as a venue for imaginative programming, a complement to the evergreen Wigmore Hall.
  9. (grammar) 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. [from 19th c.]
    • 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 ( = ‘take?) an immediately following NP Complement, whereas others (such as those italicised in (5) (b), traditionally referred to as Intransitive Verbs) do not.
  10. (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. [from 19th c.]
  11. (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). [from 19th c.]
  12. (set theory) 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). [from 20th c.]
  13. (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. [from 20th c.]
  14. (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. [from 20th c.]
  15. (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
  16. (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
  17. (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
  18. (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
  19. (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
  20. (genetics) 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.
  21. Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
  22. (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin
  23. (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.

Related terms

Translations

Verb

complement (third-person singular simple present complements, present participle complementing, simple past and past participle complemented)

  1. To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
  2. To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
  3. To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
  4. (obsolete) Old form of compliment

Translations

See also

  • compliment
  • invert
  • inversion
  • negate
  • negation
  • supplement

References

  • DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ?ISBN.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin compl?mentum. Cf. also compliment.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /kom.pl??ment/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /kum.pl??men/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /kom.ple?ment/

Noun

complement m (plural complements)

  1. complement

Related terms

  • complir

Romanian

Etymology

From French complementum

Noun

complement n (plural complemente)

  1. complementum

Declension

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match

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæt??/
  • Rhymes: -æt?

Etymology 1

From Middle English matche, metche, macche, mecche, mache, meche, from Old English mæ??a, ?emæ??a, secondary forms of Old English maca, ?emaca (companion, mate, wife, one suited to another), from Proto-Germanic *makkô, *gamakkô, *makô, *gamakô (an equal; comrade), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (to knead, work). Cognate with Danish mage (mate), Icelandic maki (spouse).

Noun

match (plural matches)

  1. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
    My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
  2. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
    • 1603, Michael Drayton. The Barons' Wars
      many a warlike match
    • A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.
  3. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
    He knew he had met his match.
  4. A marriage.
  5. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
    • She [] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.
  6. Suitability.
  7. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
  8. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
  9. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
    The carpet and curtains are a match.
  10. An agreement or compact.
    • 1660 (first published), Robert Boyle, Seraphic Love
      Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
  11. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations

See also

  • competition
  • game
  • set
  • tournament

Verb

match (third-person singular simple present matches, present participle matching, simple past and past participle matched)

  1. (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
  2. (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
    • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  3. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
  4. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
  5. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1:
      [] Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
    • A senator of Rome survived,
      Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
  6. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
Derived terms
Translations

See also

  • mate

Etymology 2

From Middle English macche, mecche, from Old French mesche, meische, from Vulgar Latin micca (compare Catalan metxa, Spanish mecha, Italian miccia), which in turn is probably from Latin myxa (nozzle, curved part of a lamp), from Ancient Greek ???? (múxa, lamp wick).

Noun

match (plural matches)

  1. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
    Synonym: spunk (obsolete)
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations

See also

  • fire, lighter, cigarette lighter
  • strike (to strike a match)

French

Etymology

From English match.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mat?/

Noun

match m (plural matchs)

  1. (sports) match, game

Usage notes

Sometimes translated as rencontre (sportive).

Derived terms

  • match nul
  • Paris Match

Further reading

  • “match” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English match.

Noun

match m (invariable)

  1. match (sports event)
  2. horserace (involving only two horses)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

match

  1. imperative of matche

Spanish

Noun

match m (plural matches)

  1. match (sporting event)

Swedish

Noun

match c

  1. match

Declension

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  • what matches with green
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  • what matches with purple
  • what matches with blue
  • what matches with brown
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