different between complete vs deep

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)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.

   Synonyms: accomplish, finish; see also Thesaurus:end

2. (transitive) To make whole or entire.

   Synonyms: consummate, perfect, top off

3. (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)

1. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.

   Synonyms: entire, total; see also Thesaurus:entire

2. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.

   Synonyms: concluded, done; see also Thesaurus:finished

3. Generic intensifier.

   Synonyms: downright, utter; see also Thesaurus:total

4. (mathematical analysis, of a metric space) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
5. (algebra, of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
6. (mathematics, of a category) In which all small limits exist.
7. (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
8. (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)

1. 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.”

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)

1. complete

Italian

Adjective

complete

1. 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

1. second-person plural present active imperative of comple?

Portuguese

Verb

complete

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of completar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of completar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of completar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of completar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kom?plete/, [kõm?ple.t?e]

Verb

complete

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of completar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of completar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of completar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of completar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English depe, deep, dep, deop, from Old English d?op (“deep, profound; awful, mysterious; heinous; serious, solemn, earnest; extreme, great”), from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (“deep”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb?-nós, from *d?ewb- (“deep”). Cognate with Scots depe (“deep”), Saterland Frisian djoop (“deep”), West Frisian djip (“deep”), Low German deep (“deep”), Dutch diep (“deep”), German tief (“deep”), Danish dyb (“deep”), Norwegian Bokmål dyp (“deep”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish djup (“deep”), Icelandic djúpur (“deep”), Lithuanian dubùs (“deep, hollow”), Albanian det (“sea”), Welsh dwfn (“deep”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?p, IPA^(key): /di?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Adjective

deep (comparative deeper, superlative deepest)

1. (of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards.
   1. Extending far down from the top or surface; having its bottom far down.
   2. Far in extent in another (non-downwards, but generally also non-upwards) direction away from a point of reference.

   3. In a (specified) number of rows or layers.

   4. Thick.
   5. Voluminous.

      • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

   6. A long way inside; situated far in or back.
      1. (cricket, baseball, softball) Far from the center of the playing area, near to the boundary of the playing area, either in absolute terms or relative to a point of reference.

      2. (sports, soccer, tennis) A long way forward.

      3. (American football) Relatively farther downfield.
2. (intellectual, social) Complex, involved.
   1. Profound, having great meaning or import, but possibly obscure or not obvious.
   2. To a significant, not superficial, extent.
      • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):

        While Britain’s recession has been deep and unforgiving, in London it has been relatively shallow.

   3. Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure.
      • c. 1840, Thomas De Quincey:

        Why it was that the ancients had no landscape painting, is a question deep almost as the mystery of life, and harder of solution than all the problems of jurisprudence combined.

   4. Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
3. (sound, voice) Low in pitch.
4. (of a color) Highly saturated.
5. (sleep) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).

6. Immersed, submerged (in).

7. Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.

   • The ways in that vale were very deep.

8. (of time) Distant in the past, ancient.

Synonyms

• (of a hole, water, etc):
• (having great meaning): heavy, meaningful, profound
• (thick in a vertical direction): thick
• (voluminous): great, large, voluminous
• (low in pitch): low, low-pitched
• (of a color, dark and highly saturated): bright, rich, vivid
• (of sleep): fast, heavy

Antonyms

• (of a hole, water, etc): shallow
• (having great meaning): frivolous, light, shallow, superficial
• (in extent in a direction away from the observer): shallow
• (thick in a vertical direction): shallow, thin
• (voluminous): shallow, small
• (low in pitch): high, high-pitched, piping
• (of a color, dark and highly saturated): light, pale, desaturated, washed-out
• (of sleep): light

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• deep-frozen
• deep-level
• deepness
• deep state

Translations

See also

References

• Deep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adverb

deep (comparative more deep, superlative most deep)

1. Deeply.

Translations

Noun

deep (countable and uncountable, plural deeps)

1. (literary, with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.

   creatures of the deep

2. (literary, with "the") A silent time; quiet isolation.

   the deep of night

3. (rare) A deep shade of colour.
4. (US, rare) The profound part of a problem.
5. (with "the") The sea, the ocean.
6. (cricket) A fielding position near the boundary.

   Russell is a safe pair of hands in the deep.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• deeps

Anagrams

• Peed, peed

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• deef (northern Moselle Franconian; now predominant in Ripuarian)
• dief (southern Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

One of several Ripuarian relict words with an unshifted post-vocalic plosive. Compare Aap (“ape”), söke (“to seek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?p/

Adjective

deep (masculine deepe, feminine deep, comparativer deeper, superlative et deepste)

1. (Ripuarian, archaic in many dialects) deep

Middle English

Adjective

deep

1. Alternative form of depe

Adverb

deep

1. Alternative form of depe

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German diep, from Old Saxon diop.

Adjective

deep

1. deep, profound