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complete.

To finish; to make done; to reach the end.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/kəmˈpliːt/Received-Pronunciation/kɒmˈpliːt/Received-Pronunciation/kəmˈpliːt/General-American
  1. To finish; to make done; to reach the end.

    ambitransitive
    He completed the assignment on time.
  2. To make whole or entire.

    transitive
    The last chapter completes the book nicely.
  3. To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.

  4. to accomplish every significant achievement within a field

    informal
Where this word comes from

From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“to fill up, to complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“to fill, to fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).

adj/kəmˈpliːt/Received-Pronunciation/kɒmˈpliːt/Received-Pronunciation/kəmˈpliːt/General-American
  1. 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.
  2. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.

    When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
  3. Generic intensifier.

    attributive
    He is a complete bastard!
    It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
  4. In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.

  5. Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.

  6. In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.

  7. In which all small limits exist.

  8. In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.

  9. 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).

Where this word comes from

From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“to fill up, to complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“to fill, to fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).

noun/kəmˈpliːt/Received-Pronunciation/kɒmˈpliːt/Received-Pronunciation/kəmˈpliːt/General-American
  1. A completed survey.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“to fill up, to complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“to fill, to fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).

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