Complementizer vs. Complement

Complementizernoun

(linguistics) A subordinating conjunction that can convert a clause into a complement clause, i.e. one that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.

Complementizer

In linguistics (especially generative grammar), complementizer or complementiser (glossing abbreviation: comp) is a functional category (part of speech) that includes those words that can be used to turn a clause into the subject or object of a sentence. For example, the word that may be called a complementizer in English sentences like Mary believes that it is raining.

Complementnoun

Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.

Complementnoun

(obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.

Complementnoun

The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.

Complementnoun

(obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory.

Complementnoun

(nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.

Complementnoun

(heraldry) Fullness (of the moon).

Complementnoun

An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.

Complementnoun

Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.

Complementnoun

(grammar) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.

Complementnoun

(music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.

Complementnoun

(optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).

Complementnoun

(set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).

Complementnoun

(immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.

Complementnoun

(logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.

Complementnoun

(electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.

Complementnoun

(computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.

Complementnoun

The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.

Complementnoun

The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.

Complementnoun

The numeric complement of a number.

Complementnoun

(genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.

Complementnoun

obsolete spelling of complimentshould this be at a different ety?

Complementnoun

(biochemistry) lang=en

Complementverb

To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.

Complementverb

To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides.

Complementverb

To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.

Complementverb

obsolete form of compliment

Complementnoun

That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

Complementnoun

That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.

Complementnoun

Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness.

Complementnoun

A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.

Complementnoun

Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.

Complementnoun

The whole working force of a vessel.

Complementnoun

The interval wanting to complete the octave; - the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.

Complementnoun

A compliment.

Complementverb

To supply a lack; to supplement.

Complementverb

To compliment.

Complementnoun

a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction

Complementnoun

a complete number or quantity;

Complementnoun

number needed to make up whole force;

Complementnoun

something added to complete or make perfect;

Complementnoun

one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response

Complementnoun

either of two parts that mutually complete each other

Complementverb

make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to;