Complement and Union

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

• An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer.
  • usage: "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
  • synonyms: labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood
• The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War. )
  • usage: "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"
  • synonyms: North
• The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.
  • usage: "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
  • synonyms: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, sexual union
• The state of being joined or united or linked.
  • usage: "there is strength in union"
  • synonyms: unification
• The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce. )
  • usage: "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
  • synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock
• Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.
  • synonyms: conglutination
• A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations.
  • usage: "the Soviet Union"
• A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets.
  • usage: "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
  • synonyms: sum, join
• The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts.
  • usage: "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
• A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner. )
• The act of making or becoming a single unit.
  • usage: "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
  • synonyms: unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure

adjective

• Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War.
  • usage: "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
  • synonyms: Federal
• Of trade unions.
  • usage: "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"

• (n.) A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.
• (n.) Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections or the like; harmony; concord.
• (n.) That which is united or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union.
• (n.) A large, fine pearl.
• (n.) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.
• (n.) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.
• (n.) A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.
• (n.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.