Complement and Pair

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

• A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
  • synonyms: brace
• Two items of the same kind.
  • synonyms: couple, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad
• Two people considered as a unit.
• A poker hand with 2 cards of the same value.

verb

• Form a pair or pairs.
  • usage: "The two old friends paired off"
  • synonyms: pair off, partner off, couple
• Bring two objects, ideas, or people together.
  • usage: "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
  • synonyms: match, mate, couple, twin
• Occur in pairs.
  • synonyms: geminate
• Arrange in pairs.
  • usage: "Pair these numbers"
  • synonyms: geminate
• Engage in sexual intercourse.
  • usage: "Birds mate in the Spring"
  • synonyms: copulate, mate, couple

• A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.
• (n.) In a mechanism, two elements or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
• (n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
• (v.i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
• (n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
• (n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
• (v.t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together or which complement or are adapted to one another.
• (v.i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
• (v.i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
• (n.) A married couple; a man and wife.
• (v.t.) To impair.
• (n.) A number of things resembling one another or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.].
• (v.t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
• (n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.