Complement and Layer

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

• Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance.
  • usage: "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"
  • synonyms: bed
• A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another.
• An abstract place usually conceived as having depth.
  • usage: "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously"
  • synonyms: level, stratum
• A hen that lays eggs.
• Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells.

verb

• Make or form a layer.
  • usage: "layer the different colored sands"

• (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
• (n.) One who or that which, lays.
• (n.) That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
• (n.) An artificial oyster bed.