Complement and Difficulty

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

• An effort that is inconvenient.
  • usage: "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"
  • synonyms: trouble
• A factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result.
  • usage: "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent"
• A condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome.
  • usage: "grappling with financial difficulties"
• The quality of being difficult.
  • usage: "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
  • synonyms: difficultness

• (n.) Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
• (n.) A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
• (n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
• (n.) The state of being difficult or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.