Complement and Flat

complement

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

flat

noun

A level tract of land.
- usage: "the salt flats of Utah"
A shallow box in which seedlings are started.
A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named.
Freight car without permanent sides or roof.
- synonyms: flatcar, flatbed
A deflated pneumatic tire.
- synonyms: flat tire
Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting.
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house.
- synonyms: apartment

adjective

Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another.
- usage: "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
- synonyms: level, plane
Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness.
- usage: "flat computer monitors"
Not modified or restricted by reservations.
- usage: "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"
- synonyms: categoric, categorical, unconditional
Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground.
- usage: "found himself lying flat on the floor"
- synonyms: prostrate
Lacking contrast or shading between tones.
Of a musical note. ( lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone)
- usage: "B flat"
Flattened laterally along the whole length (e. G., certain leafstalks or flatfishes.
- synonyms: compressed
Lacking taste or flavor or tang.
- usage: "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
- synonyms: bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting.
- usage: "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"
- synonyms: bland
Having lost effervescence.
- usage: "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch.
- usage: "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
- synonyms: monotone, monotonic, monotonous
Horizontally level.
- usage: "a flat roof"
Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth.
- usage: "a film with two-dimensional characters"; "a flat two-dimensional painting"
- synonyms: two-dimensional, 2-dimensional
Not reflecting light; not glossy.
- usage: "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"
- synonyms: mat, matt, matte, matted
Commercially inactive.
- usage: "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"

adverb

With flat sails.
- usage: "sail flat against the wind"
In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly.
- usage: "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay"
- synonyms: directly, straight

(n.) A homaloid space or extension.
(n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
(superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
(n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
(adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
(n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
(n.) A floor, loft or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
(v.t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
(v.i.) To fall form the pitch.
(superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
(superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
(v.t.) To render dull, insipid or spiritless; to depress.
(superl.) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
(adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.
(superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
(n.) Something broad and flat in form.
(v.t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
(v.i.) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
(n.) The flat part or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
(n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
(superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
(superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
(n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
(n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
(n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
(superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
(n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
(n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
(superl.) Lying at full length or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
(superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
(a.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits.
(a.) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club.
(a.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a noun used as an adjective or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix or an infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -e, the loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives. Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful, true, are now archaic.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. English term for apartment. A portion of a building designed to serve as a home for a single family group. 2. Convertibles: Earning interest on the date of payment only. General: Having neither a short nor a long position in a stock. Clean. Market: Characterized by horizontal price movement, usually the result of low activity. Equities: To execute without commission or markup.

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