Complement and Party

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

party

An organization to gain political power.
- usage: "in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level"
- synonyms: political party
A group of people gathered together for pleasure.
- usage: "she joined the party after dinner"
A band of people associated temporarily in some activity.
- usage: "they organized a party to search for food"; "the company of cooks walked into the kitchen"
- synonyms: company
An occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment.
- usage: "he planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day"
A person involved in legal proceedings.
- usage: "the party of the first part"

Have or participate in a party.
- usage: "The students were partying all night before the exam"

(v.) One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.
(v.) A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.
(v.) The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm or corporation; a litigant.
(v.) A person; as, he is a queer party.
(v.) A part or portion.
(v.) A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; especially, one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.
(v.) Partial; favoring one party.
(v.) A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.
(adv.) Partly.
(v.) Cause; side; interest.
(v.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
(v.) Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary