Complement and Portion

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

portion

Something determined in relation to something that includes it.
- usage: "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"
- synonyms: part, component part, component, constituent
Something less than the whole of a human artifact.
- usage: "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"
- synonyms: part
The allotment of some amount by dividing something.
- usage: "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians"
- synonyms: parcel, share
Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group.
- usage: "he wanted his share in cash"
- synonyms: share, part, percentage
Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you. )
- usage: "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
- synonyms: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances
Money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage.
- synonyms: dowry, dowery, dower
An individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal.
- usage: "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each"
- synonyms: helping, serving

(n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
(n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.
(v.t.) To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
(n.) That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
(n.) A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
(v.t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.
(n.) A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary