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/kəmˈpliːt/
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/kɒmˈpliːt/
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/kəmˈpliːt/
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kəmˈpliːt
Verb
To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
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He completed the assignment on time.
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The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a book twice as long.
The Tsengwen Reservoir, located at Nanhsi village, Tainan, was completed in 1973.
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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
To make whole or entire.
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The last chapter completes the book nicely.
To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
to accomplish every significant achievement within a field
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The 32-year-old has won it all, as the World Cup was the one big trophy missing in his cabinet. [...] Carlsen later shared the following GIF on his X account — chess, completed!
["]I went to four Olympic Games, and for a long time that medal was missing. To win in Paris, at 37, representing Serbia, is without question one of the greatest moments of my career. [...] But I don’t feel like I’ve ‘completed’ tennis,” concluded the 24-time Grand Slam champion. The Serbian tennis player hopes to break some more records in his career, although there are very few left.
“Adding the World Cup to his résumé means Rodri has now won the World Cup, the European Championship, the Champions League, and the Ballon d’Or,” writes Owen Bagnall. “Has anyone else ‘completed football’ like this?” They have but it’s a small, elite list.
Adjective
With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
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My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
She offered me complete control of the project.
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After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.
[…]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.
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.
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When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
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In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.
Generic intensifier.
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He is a complete bastard!
It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
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Our vacation was a complete disaster.
In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
Usage- of a metric space or topological group
Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
Usage- of a local ring
In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
Usage- of a lattice
In which all small limits exist.
Usage- of a category
In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
Usage- of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics
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).
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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.
BPP behaves differently in some ways from other classes we have seen. For example, we know of no complete languages for BPP.
Noun
A completed survey.
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“If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”
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…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.”
Adjective
having every necessary or normal part or component or step
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a complete meal
a complete wardrobe
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a complete set of the Britannica
a complete set of china
a complete defeat
a complete accounting
perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities
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a complete gentleman
consummate happiness
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a consummate performance
highly skilled
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an accomplished pianist
a complete musician
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
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an arrant fool
a complete coward
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a consummate fool
a double-dyed villain
gross negligence
a perfect idiot
pure folly
what a sodding mess
stark staring mad
a thorough nuisance
a thoroughgoing villain
utter nonsense
the unadulterated truth
having come or been brought to a conclusion
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the harvesting was complete
the affair is over, ended, finished
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the abruptly terminated interview
Verb
come or bring to a finish or an end
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He finished the dishes
She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree
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The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours
bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements
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A child would complete the family
complete or carry out
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discharge one's duties
complete a pass
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write all the required information onto a form
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fill out this questionnaire, please!
make out a form