Complement and Guide

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

guide

Someone employed to conduct others.
- synonyms: usher
Someone who shows the way by leading or advising.
Something that offers basic information or instruction.
- synonyms: guidebook
A model or standard for making comparisons.
- synonyms: template, templet
Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory.
- synonyms: scout, pathfinder
A structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something.

Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.
- synonyms: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, channelize, channelise
Take somebody somewhere.
- usage: "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance"; "He conducted us to the palace"
- synonyms: lead, take, direct, conduct
Be a guiding or motivating force or drive.
- usage: "The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses"
- synonyms: steer
Use as a guide.
- usage: "They had the lights to guide on"
- synonyms: guide on
Pass over, across, or through.
- usage: "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"
- synonyms: run, draw, pass

(n.) The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder or across the neck and shoulder.
(v.t.) Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument or part of a machine or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator.
(v.t.) To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
(v.t.) A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.
(v.t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
(v.t.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.
(v.t.) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
(v.t.) One who or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
(v.t.) To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
(v.t.) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary