complete
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of complere (“to fill up, fill full, fulfil, complete”), from com- + *plere (“to fill”), akin to full: see full and plenty and compare deplete, replete. Compare also complement, compliment.
Alternative forms [edit]
- compleat (archaic)
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
complete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)
- (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 [edit]
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms [edit]
Antonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to finish
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to make whole or entire
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Adjective [edit]
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.
- Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
- When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
- 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.
- (analysis, of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges.
- (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, that any well-formed formula which is (semantically) valid must also be 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
Synonyms [edit]
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Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
with everything included
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Finished; ended; concluded; completed
External links [edit]
- complete in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- complete in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
References [edit]
- ^ Sainsbury, Mark [2001] Logical Forms : An Introduction to Philosophical Logic. Blackwell Publishing, Hong Kong (2010), p. 358.
Statistics [edit]
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Most common English words before 1923: distribute · ordinary · forms · #948: complete · access · ways · grave
Interlingua [edit]
Adjective [edit]
complete (comparative plus complete, superlative le plus complete)
Italian [edit]
Adjective [edit]
complete f pl
- feminine plural form of completo
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
complēte
- second-person plural present active imperative of compleō
Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
complete (infinitive completar)
- 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.
Portuguese [edit]
Verb [edit]
complete
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