Complement and Crowd

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

crowd

A large number of things or people considered together.
- usage: "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"
An informal body of friends.
- usage: "he still hangs out with the same crowd"
- synonyms: crew, gang, bunch

Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together.
- usage: "We herded the children into a spare classroom"
- synonyms: herd
Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing.
- usage: "The students crowded the auditorium"
To gather together in large numbers.
- usage: "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
- synonyms: crowd together
Approach a certain age or speed.
- usage: "She is pushing fifty"
- synonyms: push

(v.t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
(v.t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
(v.t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
(v.i.) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
(v.t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(v.t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
(v.i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
(v.t.) To push, to press, to shove.
(v.t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
(v.t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.
(n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary