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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:
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- what completely transformed scientific study
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- what completes a circuit
- what completes the cell cycle
supreme
English
Alternative forms
- suprême
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French suprême, from Latin supremus, superlative of superus (“that is above”). Doublet of supremo.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?s(j)u??p?i?m/
Adjective
supreme (comparative supremer or more supreme, superlative supremest or most supreme)
- Dominant, having power over all others.
- (sometimes postpositive) Greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:supreme.
- (botany) Situated at the highest part or point.
Synonyms
- (having power over all others): predominant, preponderant, regnant
Antonyms
- inferior
- minor
Derived terms
Related terms
- super
Translations
Verb
supreme (third-person singular simple present supremes, present participle supreming, simple past and past participle supremed)
- (transitive, cooking) To divide a citrus fruit into its segments, removing the skin, pith, membranes, and seeds.
Noun
supreme (plural supremes)
- The highest point.
- (cooking) A pizza having a large number of the most common toppings, such as pepperoni, bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, olives, etc.
- (cooking) A breast of chicken or duck with the wing bone attached.
- (cooking) Anything from which all skin, bones, and other parts which are not eaten have been removed, such as a skinless fish fillet.
Further reading
- supreme in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- supreme in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- supreme at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- eusperm, presume
Interlingua
Adjective
supreme (comparative plus supreme, superlative le plus supreme)
- supreme
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su?pr?me/, [s?u?pr???.me]
- Rhymes: -?me
- Hyphenation: su?pre?me
Adjective
supreme
- feminine plural of supremo
Anagrams
- presume
Latin
Adjective
supr?me
- vocative masculine singular of supr?mus
supreme From the web:
- what supreme court justices are liberal
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- what supreme law of the land
- what supreme court justices are conservative
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- which current supreme court justices are liberal
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