Complement and One

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 smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number.
  • usage: "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one"
  • synonyms: 1, I, ace, single, unity
• A single person or thing.
  • usage: "he is the best one"; "this is the one I ordered"

adjective

• Used of a single unit or thing; not two or more.
  • usage: "`ane' is Scottish"
  • synonyms: 1, i, ane
• Having the indivisible character of a unit.
  • usage: "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice"
  • synonyms: unitary
• Of the same kind or quality.
  • usage: "two animals of one species"
• Used informally as an intensifier.
  • usage: "that is one fine dog"
• Indefinite in time or position.
  • usage: "he will come one day"; "one place or another"
• Being a single entity made by combining separate components.
  • usage: "three chemicals combining into one solution"
• Eminent beyond or above comparison.
  • usage: "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art"
  • synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one and only, peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled

• (n.) A symbol representing a unit, as 1 or i.
• (n.) A single person or thing.
• (a.) Pointing out a contrast or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the.
• (n.) A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
• (a.) Single in kind; the same; a common.
• (a.) Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. "I am the sister of one Claudio" [Shak.], that is, of a certain man named Claudio.
• (a.) Being a single unit or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.
• (a.) Single; inmarried.
• (indef.pron.) Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.
• (v.t.) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite.
• (a.) Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.