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complete
English
Etymology
From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of comple? (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + ple? (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“to fill”) (English full).
Alternative forms
- compleat (archaic)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?m?pli?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
- Hyphenation: com?plete
Verb
complete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
- Synonyms: accomplish, finish; see also Thesaurus:end
- (transitive) To make whole or entire.
- Synonyms: consummate, perfect, top off
- (poker) To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
complete (comparative completer or more complete, superlative completest or most complete)
- With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
- Synonyms: entire, total; see also Thesaurus:entire
- Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
- Synonyms: concluded, done; see also Thesaurus:finished
- Generic intensifier.
- Synonyms: downright, utter; see also Thesaurus:total
- (mathematical analysis, of a metric space) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
- (algebra, of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
- (mathematics, of a category) In which all small limits exist.
- (logic, of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics) In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
- Gödel's first incompleteness theorem showed that Principia could not be both consistent and complete. According to the theorem, for every sufficiently powerful logical system (such as Principia), there exists a statement G that essentially reads, "The statement G cannot be proved." Such a statement is a sort of Catch-22: if G is provable, then it is false, and the system is therefore inconsistent; and if G is not provable, then it is true, and the system is therefore incomplete.WP
- (computing theory, of a problem) That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).
Antonyms
- incomplete
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
complete (plural completes)
- A completed survey.
- 1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; and Green Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451
- “If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”
- 2013, Residential Rates OIR webinar published by PG&E, January 31, 2013
- “…our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to get enough completes.”
- 2016, "Perceptions of Oral Cancer Screenings Compared to Other Cancer Screenings: A Pilot Study", thesis for Idaho State University by M. Colleen Stephenson.
- “Don’t get discouraged if you’re on a job that is difficult to get completes on! Everyone else on the job is most likely struggling, and there will be easier surveys that you will dial on.”
- 1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; and Green Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451
Further reading
- complete in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- complete in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
Anagrams
- Lecompte
Interlingua
Adjective
complete (comparative plus complete, superlative le plus complete)
- complete
Italian
Adjective
complete
- feminine plural of completo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kom?ple?.te/, [k?m?p??e?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kom?ple.te/, [k?m?pl??t??]
Verb
compl?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of comple?
Portuguese
Verb
complete
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of completar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of completar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of completar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of completar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kom?plete/, [kõm?ple.t?e]
Verb
complete
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of completar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of completar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of completar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of completar.
complete From the web:
- what completes glucose metabolism
- what completely ionizes in solution
- what completes a sentence
- what completed manifest destiny
- what completely transformed scientific study
- what completes the holocaust
- what completes a circuit
- what completes the cell cycle
decided
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??sa?d.?d/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??sa?d.?d/, IPA(key): /d??sa?d.?d/
Verb
decided
- simple past tense and past participle of decide
Adjective
decided (comparative more decided, superlative most decided)
- determined; resolute
- A woman of decided opinions
- clear; unmistakable
- There was a decided ugliness to the patch of waste ground.
Antonyms
- undecided
Translations
decided From the web:
- what decided the election of 1800
- what decided the election of 1824
- what decided the 1824 presidential election
- what decided how representation would be determined
- what decided the presidential election of 2000
- what decided mean
- what decided the gender of a baby
- what decided the order of the alphabet
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