Word Meanings - COMPLEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A second quantity added to a given quantity to make equal to a third given quantity. 5. Something added for ornamentation; an accessory. Without vain art or curious complements. Spenser. (more info) 1. That which fills up or completes; the quantity

Additional info about word: COMPLEMENT

A second quantity added to a given quantity to make equal to a third given quantity. 5. Something added for ornamentation; an accessory. Without vain art or curious complements. Spenser. (more info) 1. That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete. 2. That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole. History is the complement of poetry. Sir J. Stephen. 3. Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness. To exceed his complement and number appointed him which was one hundred and twenty persons. Hakluyt.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPLEMENT)

• Addendum
• Acquisition
• improvement
• supplement
• complement
• desideratum
• concomitant
• annexation
• appendage
• Crew
• Complement
• company
• gang
• herd
• set
• miscellany
• horde
• swarm
• band
• Desideratum
• Requisite
• essential
• want

Related words: (words related to COMPLEMENT)

• SUPPLEMENT
  The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
• HORDEIN
  A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.
• ANNEXATION
  1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
• ACQUISITION
  1. The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay. 2. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. Syn. -- See Acquirement.
• REQUISITE
  That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable. God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know. Wake.
• ANNEXATIONIST
  One who favors annexation.
• HORDE
  A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.
• COMPLEMENTARY
  Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. Complementary colors. See under Color. -- Complementary angles , two angles whose sum is 90°.
• APPENDAGE
  A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter. Syn. -- Addition; adjunct; concomitant. (more info) 1. Something appended to, or accompanying,
• SWARMSPORE
  One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.
• CONCOMITANTLY
  In company with others; unitedly; concurrently. Bp. pearson.
• CONCOMITANT
  Accompanying; conjoined; attending. It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure. Locke.
• HORDEIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.
• ADDENDUM
  A thing to be added; an appendix or addition. Addendum circle , the circle which may be described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine.
• HORDEOLUM
  A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.
• ESSENTIALITY
  The quality of being essential; the essential part. Jer. Taylor.
• ESSENTIALNESS
  Essentiality. Ld. Digby.
• APPENDAGED
  Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.
• IMPROVEMENT
  Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. (more info) 1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration;
• SUPPLEMENTAL; SUPPLEMENTARY
  Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume. Supplemental air , the air which in addition to the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary
• PREREQUISITE
  Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• CHORDEE
  A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
• SWARM
  To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
• DISCOMPANY
  To free from company; to dissociate. It she be alone now, and discompanied. B. Jonson.
• REANNEXATION
  Act of reannexing.
• ESSENTIAL
  Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones. (more info) 1. Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. Majestic as the
• COMPLEMENT
  A second quantity added to a given quantity to make equal to a third given quantity. 5. Something added for ornamentation; an accessory. Without vain art or curious complements. Spenser. (more info) 1. That which fills up or completes; the quantity