Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having all necessary or normal parts, components, or steps; entire.
- adjective Botany Having all principal parts, namely, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistil or pistils. Used of a flower.
- adjective Having come to an end; concluded.
- adjective Absolute; thorough.
- adjective Accomplished; consummate.
- adjective Football Caught in bounds by a receiver.
- transitive verb To bring to a finish or an end.
- transitive verb To make whole, with all necessary elements or parts.
- transitive verb Football To throw (a forward pass) that is caught in bounds by a receiver.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no deficiency; wanting no part or element; perfect; whole; entire; full: as, in complete armor.
- Thorough; consummate; perfect in kind or quality.
- Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
- In the case of a partial differential equation of the first order, a solution containing the full number of arbitrary constants, but no arbitrary function.
- noun The last of the daily canonical hours in the Roman Catholic breviary: same as
complin . - To make complete; bring to a consummation or an end; add or supply what is lacking to; finish; perfect; fill up or out: as, to
complete a house or a task; to complete an unfinished design; to complete another's thought, or the measure of one's wrongs. - To fulfil; accomplish; realize.
- Synonyms To consummate, perform, execute, achieve, realize.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.
- adjective Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
- adjective (Bot.) Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.
- transitive verb To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
finish ; to makedone ; to reach theend . - verb transitive To make
whole orentire . - adjective With all parts
included ; with nothing missing; full. - adjective Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
- adjective Generic intensifier.
- adjective analysis in which every
Cauchy sequence converges. - adjective algebra in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
- adjective mathematics In which all small
limits exist.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb write all the required information onto a form
- adjective without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- adjective having every necessary or normal part or component or step
- verb bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements
- adjective perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities
- adjective highly skilled
- verb complete a pass
- verb complete or carry out
- adjective having come or been brought to a conclusion
- verb come or bring to a finish or an end
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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For those of you unsure as to why these are ..shall we say..."counterproductive in your search for an agent", just drop me an email or a comment with the number in it and I'll post a full, complete, profanity fueled diatribe ..complete with flames.
Followup Follies Miss Snark 2005
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By the assistance, however, of the latter, what store of learning might we not expect from complete Arabic translations of many of the Greek and Latin authors, _viz. _ of the _complete_ works of Livy, Tacitus, and many others.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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"complete verifiable elimination" covering even undeclared nuclear facilities, similar to the Bush administration's principle of ¡°complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization.
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SAN FRANCISCO—Three years after calling the term "complete gibberish," Larry Ellison is selling the cloud.
Oracle's Ellison Embraces Cloud Craze Ben Worthen 2011
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The word complete in the first chapter of James means “whole,” “well,” or “physical or spiritual well-being.”
ONE GREAT TRUTH JONATHAN FALWELL 2008
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The planeswalker's use of the term complete ran a chill through the mage.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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Hence, in the sale of real estate by the husband, his wife must, with the husband, sign the conveyance to make the title complete to the purchaser.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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SAN FRANCISCO-Three years after calling the term "complete gibberish," Larry Ellison is selling the cloud.
unknown title 2011
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SAN FRANCISCO-Three years after calling the term "complete gibberish," Larry Ellison is selling the cloud.
unknown title 2011
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Obviously, the very first season in 1992, you had what I call complete virgins.
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