Complement and Condense

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

condense

Undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops.
- usage: "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
- synonyms: distill, distil
Make more concise.
- usage: "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
- synonyms: digest, concentrate
Remove water from.
- usage: "condense the milk"
Cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid.
- usage: "The cold air condensed the steam"
Become more compact or concentrated.
- usage: "Her feelings condensed"
Develop due to condensation.
- usage: "All our planets condensed out of the same material"
Compress or concentrate.
- usage: "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
- synonyms: concentrate, contract

(v.i.) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
(v.i.) To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
(v.i.) To undergo polymerization.
(v.t.) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form or steam into water.
(a.) Condensed; compact; dense.
(v.t.) To make more close, compact or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary