Complement and Join

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

join

The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.
- synonyms: articulation, joint, juncture, junction
A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets.
- usage: "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
- synonyms: union, sum

Become part of; become a member of a group or organization.
- usage: "He joined the Communist Party as a young man"
- synonyms: fall in, get together
Cause to become joined or linked.
- usage: "join these two parts so that they fit together"
- synonyms: bring together
Come into the company of.
- usage: "She joined him for a drink"
Make contact or come together.
- usage: "The two roads join here"
- synonyms: conjoin
Be or become joined or united or linked.
- usage: "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport"
- synonyms: connect, link, link up, unite

(v.t.) To enjoin upon; to command.
(v.i.) To be contiguous, close or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the hones of the skull join; two rivers join.
(v.t.) To accept or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue.
(v.t.) To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.
(v.t.) To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church.
(v.t.) To unite in marriage.
(n.) The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary