Complement and Argument

complement

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.

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

argument

A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true.
- usage: "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
- synonyms: statement
A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement.
- usage: "they were involved in a violent argument"
- synonyms: controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, arguing
A discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal.
- usage: "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"
- synonyms: argumentation, debate
A summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie.
- usage: "the editor added the argument to the poem"
- synonyms: literary argument
Computer science. ( a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program)
- synonyms: parameter
A variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable.
A course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning.
- usage: "I can't follow your line of reasoning"
- synonyms: argumentation, logical argument, line of reasoning, line

(n.) The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.
(n.) Proof; evidence.
(n.) Matter for question; business in hand.
(n.) A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it or against it.
(n.) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
(n.) A process of reasoning or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.
(n.) The subject matter of a discourse, writing or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
(v.i.) To make an argument; to argue.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary