英语词汇“complement”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

com·ple·ment

(kŏmplə-mənt)

a. Something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection: a sauce that is a fine complement to fish.

b. The quantity or number needed to make up a whole: shelves with a full complement of books.

c. The full crew of personnel required to run a ship.

d. Either of two parts that complete the whole or mutually complete each other.

2. An angle related to another so that the sum of their measures is 90°.

3. Grammar A word or words used to complete a predicate construction, especially the object or indirect object of a verb, for example, the phrase to eat ice cream in We like to eat ice cream.

4. Music An interval that completes an octave when added to a given interval.

5. Immunology A complex system of proteins found in blood plasma that are sequentially activated and play various roles in the immune response, including lysing bacterial cell membranes, making pathogens more susceptible to phagocytes, and recruiting inflammatory cells to sites of infection or injury. Also called alexin.

6. Mathematics & Logic For a universal set, the set of all elements in the set that are not in a specified subset.

7. A complementary color.

tr.v. (-mĕnt′) com·ple·ment·ed, com·ple·ment·ing, com·ple·ments

To serve as a complement to: Roses in a silver bowl complement the handsome cherry table.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin complēmentum, from complēre, to fill out; see COMPLETE.]

Usage Note: Complement and compliment, though quite distinct in meaning, are sometimes confused because they are pronounced the same. As a noun, complement means "something that completes or brings to perfection" (The antique silver was a complement to the beautifully set table); used as a verb it means "to serve as a complement to." The noun compliment means "an expression or act of courtesy or praise" (They gave us a compliment on our beautifully set table), while the verb means "to pay a compliment to."

单词	complement
释义	com·ple·ment (kŏmplə-mənt) n. 1. a. Something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection: a sauce that is a fine complement to fish. b. The quantity or number needed to make up a whole: shelves with a full complement of books. c. The full crew of personnel required to run a ship. d. Either of two parts that complete the whole or mutually complete each other. 2. An angle related to another so that the sum of their measures is 90°. 3. Grammar A word or words used to complete a predicate construction, especially the object or indirect object of a verb, for example, the phrase to eat ice cream in We like to eat ice cream. 4. Music An interval that completes an octave when added to a given interval. 5. Immunology A complex system of proteins found in blood plasma that are sequentially activated and play various roles in the immune response, including lysing bacterial cell membranes, making pathogens more susceptible to phagocytes, and recruiting inflammatory cells to sites of infection or injury. Also called alexin. 6. Mathematics & Logic For a universal set, the set of all elements in the set that are not in a specified subset. 7. A complementary color. tr.v. (-mĕnt′) com·ple·ment·ed, com·ple·ment·ing, com·ple·ments To serve as a complement to: Roses in a silver bowl complement the handsome cherry table. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin complēmentum, from complēre, to fill out; see COMPLETE.] *Usage Note:* Complement and compliment, though quite distinct in meaning, are sometimes confused because they are pronounced the same. As a noun, complement means "something that completes or brings to perfection" (The antique silver was a complement to the beautifully set table); used as a verb it means "to serve as a complement to." The noun compliment means "an expression or act of courtesy or praise" (They gave us a compliment on our beautifully set table), while the verb means "to pay a compliment to."
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