complete
Etymology
From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Латински completus, past participle of compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).
Alternative forms
- compleat (archaic)
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (transitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
- He completed the assignment on time.
- (transitive) To make whole or entire.
- The last chapter completes the book nicely.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- (to finish): accomplish, finish; see also Thesaurus:end
- (to make whole): consummate, perfect, top off
Related terms
Translations
to finish
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to make whole or entire
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Adjective
complete (comparative completer or more complete, superlative completest or most complete)
- With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
- My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
- She offered me complete control of the project.
- After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.
- 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur[1], University of California Press, strana 68:
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- 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist[2], volume 100, number 2, strana 171:
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- Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
- When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
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- Generic intensifier.
- He is a complete bastard!
- It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
- Our vacation was a complete disaster.
- (mathematical analysis, of a metric space) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
- (algebra, of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
- (mathematics, of a category) In which all small limits exist.
- (logic, of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics) In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.[1]
- Gödel's first incompleteness theorem showed that Principia could not be both consistent and complete. According to the theorem, for every sufficiently powerful logical system (such as Principia), there exists a statement G that essentially reads, "The statement G cannot be proved." Such a statement is a sort of Catch-22: if G is provable, then it is false, and the system is therefore inconsistent; and if G is not provable, then it is true, and the system is therefore incomplete.WP
- (computing theory, of a problem) That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).
- 2007, Yi-Kai Liu, The Complexity of the Consistency and N-representability Problems for Quantum States, strana 17:
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Synonyms
- (with everything included): entire, total; see also Thesaurus:entire
- (finished): concluded, done; see also Thesaurus:finished
- (generic intensifier): downright, utter; see also Thesaurus:total
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
with everything included
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finished; ended; concluded; completed
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generic intensifier derived from "complete"
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of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it
of a lattice: such that every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound
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of a category: such that all small limits exist
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of a proof system: such that any semantically valid formula is also provable
Noun
complete (plural completes)
- A completed survey.
- 1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; and Green Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451
- “If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”
- 2013, Residential Rates OIR webinar published by PG&E, January 31, 2013
- “…our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to get enough completes.”
- 2016, "Perceptions of Oral Cancer Screenings Compared to Other Cancer Screenings: A Pilot Study", thesis for Idaho State University by M. Colleen Stephenson.
- “Don’t get discouraged if you’re on a job that is difficult to get completes on! Everyone else on the job is most likely struggling, and there will be easier surveys that you will dial on.”
- 1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; and Green Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451
Further reading
- complete in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- complete in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
References
- ↑ Sainsbury, Mark [2001] Logical Forms : An Introduction to Philosophical Logic. Blackwell Publishing, Hong Kong (2010), page 358.
Anagrams
- Lecompte (alphagram ceelmopt)
Interlingua
Adjective
Italian
Adjective
complete f pl
- Feminine plural of adjective completo.
Latin
Verb
complēte
- друго лице множине презента актива императива of compleō
Portuguese
Verb
complete
- прво лице једнине презента subjunctive of completar
- треће лице једнине презента subjunctive of completar
- прво лице једнине императива of completar
- треће лице једнине императива of completar
Spanish
Verb
complete
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of completar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of completar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of completar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of completar.
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