Complement and Begin

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.

noun

• Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel. negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992))
  • synonyms: Menachem Begin

verb

• Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.
  • usage: "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"
  • synonyms: get down, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence
• Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense.
  • usage: "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250, 000"
  • synonyms: start
• Set in motion, cause to start.
  • usage: "The U. S. Started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"
  • synonyms: lead off, start, commence
• Begin to speak or say. "Now listen, friends" he began
• Be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series.
  • usage: "The number `one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"
• Have a beginning, of a temporal event.
  • usage: "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month"
• Have a beginning characterized in some specified way.
  • usage: "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"
  • synonyms: start
• Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object.
  • usage: "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade"
  • synonyms: start
• Achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative.
  • usage: "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"; "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"
• Begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language.
  • usage: "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"

• (v.t.) To enter on; to commence.
• (v.t.) To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.
• (v.i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being or course of action; to take the first step; to start.
• (v.i.) To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
• (n.) Beginning.