Complement and Predicate

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

predicate

Logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula. (
- usage: "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"
One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements.
- synonyms: verb phrase

Make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition.
- usage: "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of.
- usage: "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
- synonyms: proclaim
Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic.
- usage: "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
- synonyms: connote

(v.t.) To found; to base.
(v.t.) To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
(a.) Predicated.
(v.t.) The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
(v.t.) That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "Paper is white," "Ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.
(v.i.) To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary