Complement and Accept

noun

• A word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction.
• A complete number or quantity.
  • usage: "a full complement"
• Number needed to make up a whole force.
  • usage: "a full complement of workers"
  • synonyms: full complement
• Something added to complete or embellish or make perfect.
  • usage: "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"; "wild rice was served as an accompaniment to the main dish"
  • synonyms: accompaniment
• One of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response.
• Either of two parts that mutually complete each other.

verb

• Make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to.
  • usage: "I need some pepper to complement the sweet touch in the soup"

• (v.t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
• (v.t.) The whole working force of a vessel.
• (v.t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
• (v.t.) To compliment.
• (v.t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
• (v.t.) A compliment.
• (v.t.) Full quantity, number or amount; a complete set; completeness.
• (v.t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
• (v.t.) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
• (v.t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency or to complete a symmetrical whole.

verb

• Consider or hold as true.
  • usage: "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"
• Receive willingly something given or offered.
  • usage: "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house"; "Please accept my present"
  • synonyms: take, have
• Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to.
  • usage: "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
  • synonyms: consent, go for
• React favorably to; consider right and proper.
  • usage: "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"
• Admit into a group or community.
  • usage: "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
  • synonyms: admit, take, take on
• Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person.
  • usage: "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"
  • synonyms: bear, take over, assume
• Tolerate or accommodate oneself to.
  • usage: "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
  • synonyms: live with, swallow
• Be designed to hold or take.
  • usage: "This surface will not take the dye"
  • synonyms: take
• Receive (a report) officially, as from a committee.
• Make use of or accept for some purpose.
  • usage: "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"
  • synonyms: take
• Be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal.
  • usage: "The cow accepted the bull"

• (v.t.) To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
• (v.t.) To receive with favor; to approve.
• (v.t.) To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment or excuse.
• (v.t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?.
• (v.t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
• (v.t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.].
• (a.) Accepted.