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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).
Pronunciation
Verb
complete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
- Synonyms: accomplish, finish; see also Thesaurus:end
He completed the assignment on time.
2023, “30 Under 13”, performed by Better Lovers:How far are you willing to reach?
While you're coveting outcomes that you can't achieve
Now you're on a mission, but you won't complete
Shouldn't hold on to me, hold on to me
Try to let go of me, let go of me
- (transitive) To make whole or entire.
- Synonyms: consummate, perfect, top off
The last chapter completes the book nicely.
- (poker) To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
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to finish
- Arabic: اِنْتَهَى (ar) (intahā), أَكْمَلَ (ʔakmala)
- Egyptian Arabic: كامل (kāmil)
- Armenian: ավարտել (hy) (avartel)
- Bulgarian: завършвам (bg) (zavǎršvam)
- Catalan: complir (ca), completar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 完成 (zh) (wánchéng)
- Czech: dokončit (cs)
- Danish: afslutte (da), fuldføre, færdiggøre (da), gøre færdig
- Dutch: voltooien (nl)
- Esperanto: kompleti
- Finnish: tehdä loppuun, saada valmiiksi
- French: accomplir (fr), terminer (fr), achever (fr)
- Georgian: დამთავრება (damtavreba), მორჩნა (morčna), დასრულება (dasruleba)
- German: beenden (de), fertigstellen (de), fertigmachen (de)
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (ustiuhan)
- Greek: ολοκληρώνω (el) (olokliróno)
- Ancient: τελέω (teléō)
- Hebrew: סיים (siyém), השלים (hishlím)
- Hungarian: elvégez (hu), befejez (hu), teljesít (hu), elkészít (hu)
- Ido: kompletigar (io)
- Indonesian: menyelesaikan (id), merampungkan (id)
- Italian: completare (it), portare a termine, concludere (it)
- Japanese: 完了する (ja) (kanryō suru), 完うする (mattō suru), 終える (ja) (oeru)
- Kazakh: бітіру (bıtıru), аяқтау (aäqtau)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: تەواو کردن (tewaw kirdin)
- Lao: ໝົດ (mot), ສຳເລັດ (sam let)
- Latin: finiō (la)
- Lü: ᦵᦙᧃᧉᦷᦙᧇ (men²mob), ᧟ᦵᦔᧈ (l̇aewṗe¹)
- Malay: habis
- Maori: whakatepe (without any omissions)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fullføre, gjøre ferdig
- Nynorsk: fullføre, gjere ferdig
- Persian: کامل کردن, تمام کردن (fa)
- Polish: ukończyć (pl)
- Portuguese: terminar (pt), acabar (pt), concluir (pt)
- Romanian: completa (ro), termina (ro)
- Russian: заверша́ть (ru) impf (zaveršátʹ), заверши́ть (ru) pf (zaveršítʹ), зака́нчивать (ru) impf (zakánčivatʹ), зако́нчить (ru) pf (zakónčitʹ)
- Slovene: dokončati, zaključiti
- Spanish: terminar (es), completar (es)
- Swedish: slutföra (sv), färdigställa (sv), göra färdig (sv)
- Telugu: పూర్తిచేయు (te) (pūrticēyu), ముగించు (te) (mugiñcu)
- Thai: สำเร็จ (th) (sǎm-rèt)
- Turkish: tamamlamak (tr)
- Ukrainian: заве́ршувати (zavéršuvaty), заве́ршити impf (zavéršyty)
- Vietnamese: hoàn thành (vi)
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to make whole or entire
- Bulgarian: довършвам (bg) (dovǎršvam)
- Catalan: complir (ca)
- Dutch: aanvullen (nl)
- Esperanto: plenigi
- Finnish: täydentää (fi), lopettaa (fi)
- French: compléter (fr)
- Georgian: შევსება (ševseba)
- German: komplettieren (de), ergänzen (de), vervollständigen (de)
- Greek: συμπληρώνω (el) (sympliróno)
- Hebrew: השלים (hishlím)
- Hungarian: kiegészít (hu), befejez (hu)
- Ido: kompletigar (io)
- Indonesian: menyelesaikan (id), merampungkan (id)
- Italian: completare (it), portare a termine
- Japanese: 完成させる (ja) (kansei saseru)
- Latin: compleō (la)
- Maori: whakatepe
- Polish: dopełnić (pl), uzupełnić (pl), skompletować pf
- Portuguese: completar (pt), inteirar (pt), concluir (pt)
- Russian: укомплекто́вывать (ru) impf (ukomplektóvyvatʹ), комплектова́ть (ru) impf (komplektovátʹ), укомплектова́ть (ru) pf (ukomplektovátʹ)
- Slovene: dopolniti
- Spanish: cumplir (es)
- Swedish: fullborda (sv)
- Turkish: tamamlamak (tr)
- Ukrainian: комплектува́ти impf (komplektuváty)
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Adjective
complete (comparative more complete or completer, superlative most complete or completest)
- With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
- Synonyms: entire, total; see also Thesaurus:entire
My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
She offered me complete control of the project.
After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.
2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:[…] and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 April 2017, page 171:Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
- Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
- Synonyms: concluded, done; see also Thesaurus:finished
When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
- Generic intensifier.
- Synonyms: downright, utter; see also Thesaurus:total
He is a complete bastard!
It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
Our vacation was a complete disaster.
- (mathematical analysis, of a metric space or topological group) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
- (ring theory, of a local ring) Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
- (algebra, of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
- (mathematics, of a category) In which all small limits exist.
- (logic, of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics) In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
- Gödel's first incompleteness theorem showed that Principia could not be both consistent and complete. According to the theorem, for every sufficiently powerful logical system (such as Principia), there exists a statement G that essentially reads, "The statement G cannot be proved." Such a statement is a sort of Catch-22: if G is provable, then it is false, and the system is therefore inconsistent; and if G is not provable, then it is true, and the system is therefore incomplete.WP
- (computing theory, of a problem) 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).
2007, Yi-Kai Liu, The Complexity of the Consistency and N-representability Problems for Quantum States, page 17:QMA arises naturally in the study of quantum computation, and it also has a complete problem, Local Hamiltonian, which is a generalization of k-SAT.
2009, Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, page 137:BPP behaves differently in some ways from other classes we have seen. For example, we know of no complete languages for BPP.
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with everything included
- Afrikaans: volledig (af)
- Arabic: كَامِل (kāmil)
- Armenian: լրիվ (hy) (lriv), ամբողջական (hy) (amboġǰakan), լիարժեք (hy) (liaržekʻ)
- Asturian: completu
- Belarusian: по́ўны (póŭny)
- Bulgarian: пъ́лен (bg) m (pǎ́len), цял (bg) (cjal)
- Catalan: complet (ca) m, completa (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 完全 (zh) (wánquán), 完整 (zh) (wánzhěng)
- Czech: úplný (cs) m, plný (cs)
- Dutch: volledig (nl), compleet (nl), algeheel (nl), allesomvattend (nl) (uncommon)
- Esperanto: kompleta (eo)
- Finnish: täydellinen (fi)
- French: complet (fr) m, complète (fr) f
- Galician: completo (gl)
- Georgian: სრული (sruli)
- German: ganz (de), komplett (de), vollständig (de)
- Greek: πλήρης (el) m or f (plíris), πλήρες (el) n (plíres)
- Ancient: ὅλος (hólos)
- Hebrew: שלם (he) m (shalém), מלא (he) m (malé), מושלם m (mushlám)
- Hindi: पूरा (hi) (pūrā), कामिल (hi) (kāmil)
- Hungarian: teljes (hu)
- Indonesian: lengkap (id), sempurna (id), komplit (id)
- Interlingua: complete
- Irish: líonmhar, foirfe
- Italian: completo (it) m, completa (it) f
- Japanese: 完全な (ja) (kanzen na), 全い (mattai)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: تەواو (tewaw)
- Latin: integer
- Latvian: pilnīgs
- Macedonian: полн (poln)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: komplett (no)
- Nynorsk: komplett
- Occitan: complet (oc)
- Persian: کامل (fa) (kâmel)
- Polish: pełny (pl), kompletny (pl)
- Portuguese: completo (pt), integral (pt), totalizado, íntegro (pt)
- Romanian: complet (ro)
- Russian: по́лный (ru) (pólnyj), це́лый (ru) (célyj), соверше́нный (ru) (soveršénnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: buileach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пун
- Roman: pun (sh)
- Slovak: plný
- Slovene: popoln
- Spanish: completo (es)
- Swahili: kamili (sw)
- Swedish: komplett (sv), fullständig (sv)
- Telugu: పూర్తి (te) (pūrti), సంపూర్ణమైన (te) (sampūrṇamaina), సంపూర్ణము (te) (sampūrṇamu)
- Turkish: tamam (tr), eksiksiz (tr)
- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎍𐎎 (šlm)
- Ukrainian: по́вний (póvnyj), ці́лий (uk) (cílyj)
- Urdu: پورا (pūrā)
- Yakut: толору (toloru)
- Yoruba: bam-bam
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finished; ended; concluded; completed
- Asturian: completu
- Bulgarian: , завършен (bg) (zavǎršen)
- Catalan: complet (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 完成的 (wánchéng de)
- Finnish: valmis (fi)
- Galician: completo (gl), cabal
- Georgian: დასრულებული (dasrulebuli)
- German: abgeschlossen (de), beendet (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: τέλειος (téleios)
- Hebrew: גמור m (gamúr), שלם (he) m (shalém)
- Hungarian: elvégzett (hu), elkészült (hu), kész (hu), teljesített (hu), lezárt (hu)
- Icelandic: algjör
- Irish: foirfe
- Italian: completato (it), concluso (it)
- Japanese: 終わった (ja) (owatta)
- Latin: complētus (la), effectus
- Maori: rūpeke
- Persian: سپری (fa) (separi)
- Portuguese: completo (pt), concluído (pt), terminado (pt)
- Slovene: dokončan
- Spanish: completo (es)
- Swedish: klar (sv), färdig (sv)
- Ukrainian: заве́ршений pf (zavéršenyj)
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generic intensifier derived from "complete"
of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it
of a lattice: such that every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound
of a category: such that all small limits exist
Noun
complete (plural completes)
- A completed survey.
- 1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; and Green Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451
- “If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”
- 2013, Residential Rates OIR webinar published by PG&E, January 31, 2013
- “…our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to get enough completes.”
- 2016, "Perceptions of Oral Cancer Screenings Compared to Other Cancer Screenings: A Pilot Study", thesis for Idaho State University by M. Colleen Stephenson.
- “Don’t get discouraged if you’re on a job that is difficult to get completes on! Everyone else on the job is most likely struggling, and there will be easier surveys that you will dial on.”
References
- ^ Sainsbury, Mark Logical Forms : An Introduction to Philosophical Logic. Blackwell Publishing, Hong Kong (2010), page 358.
Further reading
- “complete”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “complete”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Interlingua
Adjective
complete (comparative plus complete, superlative le plus complete)
- complete
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /komˈplɛ.te/
- Rhymes: -ɛte
- Hyphenation: com‧plè‧te
Adjective
complete
- feminine plural of completo
Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
complēte
- second-person plural present active imperative of compleō
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Verb
complete
- inflection of completar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /komˈplete/
- Rhymes: -ete
- Syllabification: com‧ple‧te
Verb
complete
- inflection of completar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative