different between wing vs complement

English

Etymology

From Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr (“wing”), from Proto-Germanic *w?inga, *w?ingan-. Cognate with Danish vinge (“wing”), Swedish vinge (“wing”), Icelandic vængur (“wing”), West Frisian wjuk (“wing”), from *h?weh?- (“to blow”), thus related to wind. Replaced native Middle English fither (from Old English fiþre, from Proto-Germanic *fiþrij?), which merged with fether (from Old English feþer, from Proto-Germanic *feþr?). More at feather.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?ng, IPA^(key): /w??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

wing (plural wings)

1. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly

2. A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
3. (slang) Human arm.
4. (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.

5. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
6. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
7. (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
8. (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
9. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
10. Passage by flying; flight.
11. Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
12. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.

13. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
14. A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
15. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
16. A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
17. A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
18. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
    1. (Britain) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
    2. (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
19. (Britain) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
20. (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
21. (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

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22. (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.

23. (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
24. (typography, informal, rare) A há?ek.
    • 1985, David Grambs, Literary Companion Dictionary, page 378:

      ? wing, wedge, h?cek, inverted circumflex (Karel ?apek)

26. (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
27. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
    • 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

      Anyone and everyone with wings - press officers, operations specialists, even General Curtis LeMay, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe - was put on flight duty and took turns flying double shifts for "Operation Vittles."

28. A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
29. On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype

Alternative forms

• weng, whing, wyng (all obsolete)

Synonyms

• (panel of a car): fender (US), guard (Australia)
• (sports position): forward
• (U.S. Air Force): delta (U.S. Space Force), garrison (U.S. Space Force)

Hyponyms

• left wing
• right wing

Derived terms

Related terms

• on the wing
• take under one's wing
• wing it
• wait in the wings

Translations

Verb

wing (third-person singular simple present wings, present participle winging, simple past and past participle winged or (nonstandard) wung)

1. (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
2. (intransitive) To fly.

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

3. (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
4. (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.

5. (transitive) To throw.
6. (transitive) To furnish with wings.
7. (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
8. (transitive) To traverse by flying.

Translations

Anagrams

• Gwin, gwin

Middle English

Noun

wing

1. Alternative form of winge

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wing.

Noun

wing

1. wing

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Adjective

wing

1. little (by amount)

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.]
15. (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.]
16. (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
17. (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
18. (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.

19. (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.

20. (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.

21. (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.

22. Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
23. (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin
24. (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