Complement and Full

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

• The time when the Moon is fully illuminated.
  • usage: "the moon is at the full"
  • synonyms: full moon, full-of-the-moon, full phase of the moon

verb

• Beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening.
  • usage: "full the cloth"
• Make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering.
• Increase in phase.
  • usage: "the moon is waxing"
  • synonyms: wax

adjective

• Containing as much or as many as is possible or normal.
  • usage: "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"
• Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete.
  • usage: "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full attention"; "a total failure"
  • synonyms: entire, total
• Complete in extent or degree and in every particular.
  • usage: "a full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster"
  • synonyms: total
• Filled to satisfaction with food or drink.
  • usage: "a full stomach"
  • synonyms: replete
• Of sound. ( having marked deepness and body)
  • usage: "full tones"; "a full voice"
• Having the normally expected amount.
  • usage: "gives full measure"; "gives good measure"; "a good mile from here"
  • synonyms: good
• Being at a peak or culminating point.
  • usage: "broad daylight"; "full summer"
  • synonyms: broad
• Having ample fabric.
  • usage: "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"
  • synonyms: wide, wide-cut

adverb

• To the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form. )
  • usage: "fully grown"; "he didn't fully understand"; "knew full well"; "full-grown"; "full-fledged"
  • synonyms: fully, to the full

• (v.i.) To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well.
• (n.) To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.
• (Compar.) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
• (Compar.) Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.
• (Compar.) Sated; surfeited.
• (Compar.) Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project.
• (adv.) Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
• (Compar.) Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people.
• (v.i.) To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.
• (Compar.) Impregnated; made pregnant.
• (Compar.) Filled with emotions.
• (n.) Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.
• (Compar.) Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon.

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