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accompaniment
English
Etymology
accompany +? -ment. First attested in 1744.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?-k?m?p?-n?-m?nt, IPA(key): /?.?k?m.p?.ni.m?nt/, /?.?k?mp.ni.m?nt/
Noun
accompaniment (countable and uncountable, plural accompaniments)
- (music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
- That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
Synonyms
- (that which accompanies): attachment, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct
Translations
accompaniment From the web:
- what accompaniments go with beef wellington
- what accompaniment goes with venison
- what accompaniment goes well with shrimp
- what accompaniments go with curry
- what accompaniments go with chilli
- what accompaniment uses rhythmic patterns
- what accompaniments go with thai green curry
- what accompaniment goes with goose
complement
English
Etymology
From Middle English complement, from Latin complementum (“that which fills up or completes”), from comple? (“I fill up, I complete”) (English complete). Doublet of compliment.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?mpl?m?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?mpl?m?nt/
- Homophone: compliment (in some dialects)
Noun
complement (countable and uncountable, plural complements)
- (now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. [from 14th c.]
- :
- perform all those works of mercy, which Clemens Alexandrinus calls amoris et amicitiæ impletionem et extentionem, the extent and complement of love […].
- :
- (obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. [15th-18th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- And both encreast the prayse of woman kynde, / And both encreast her beautie excellent: / So all did make in her a perfect complement.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. [from 16th c.]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.
- 2009, The Guardian, 30 October:
- Some 11 members of Somerton council's complement of 15 stepped down on Tuesday.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- (obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. [16th-17th c.]
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Muses [The Tears of the Muses]: Polyhymnia”:
- A doleful case desires a doleful song,
- Without vain art or curious complements.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 2:
- Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Muses [The Tears of the Muses]: Polyhymnia”:
- (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
- (heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). [from 17th c.]
- 1912, Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry, p.33:
- The sixth Bishop of Ely had very curious arms, for he bore both sun and moon on his shield, the sun "in his splendour" and the moon "in her complement".
- 1912, Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry, p.33:
- (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. [from 18th c.]
- 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. [from 19th c.]
- 1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading
- History is the complement of poetry.
- 2009, The Guardian, 13 December:
- London's Kings Place, now one year old, established itself as a venue for imaginative programming, a complement to the evergreen Wigmore Hall.
- 1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading
- (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. [from 19th c.]
- Why has our grammar broken down at this point? It is not difficult to see why. For, we have failed to make any provision for the fact that only some Verbs in English (i.e. Verbs like those italicized in (5) (a), traditionally called Transitive Verbs) subcategorize ( = ‘take?) an immediately following NP Complement, whereas others (such as those italicised in (5) (b), traditionally referred to as Intransitive Verbs) do not.
- (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. [from 19th c.]
- (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). [from 19th c.]
- (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). [from 20th c.]
- (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. [from 20th c.]
- (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. [from 20th c.]
- (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
- (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.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin
- (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
Related terms
Translations
Verb
complement (third-person singular simple present complements, present participle complementing, simple past and past participle complemented)
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- (obsolete) Old form of compliment
Translations
See also
- compliment
- invert
- inversion
- negate
- negation
- supplement
References
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ?ISBN.
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin compl?mentum. Cf. also compliment.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /kom.pl??ment/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kum.pl??men/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kom.ple?ment/
Noun
complement m (plural complements)
- complement
Related terms
- complir
Romanian
Etymology
From French complementum
Noun
complement n (plural complemente)
- complementum
Declension
complement From the web:
- what complementary angles
- what compliments green
- what complementary colors
- what compliments red
- what compliments blue
- what compliments purple
- what compliments do guys like
- what compliments yellow
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