Complement and Total

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

total

The whole amount.
- synonyms: sum, totality, aggregate
A quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers.
- synonyms: sum, amount

Add up in number or quantity.
- usage: "The bills amounted to $2, 000"; "The bill came to $2, 000"
- synonyms: number, add up, come, amount
Determine the sum of.
- usage: "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
- synonyms: tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up
Damage beyond the point of repair.
- usage: "My son totaled our new car"; "the rock star totals his guitar at every concert"

Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete.
- usage: "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full attention"; "a total failure"
- synonyms: entire, full
Complete in extent or degree and in every particular.
- usage: "a full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster"
- synonyms: full

(v.t.) To bring to a total; to add; also, to reach as a total; to amount to.
(a.) Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.
(n.) The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Complete amount of buy or sell interest, as opposed to having more behind it. See: Partial.