2. Verb. (third-person singular of complement) ¹
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Definition of Complements
1. complement [v] - See also: complement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Complements
Literary usage of Complements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Immune Sera: Hæmolysins, Cytotoxins, and Precipitins by August von Wassermann, Charles Bolduan (1904)
"I myself believe that the leucocytes are a source of complements ... Because of
the plurality of the complements, I have expressed the view that the ..."
2. Immune Sera: Hæmolysins, Cytotoxins, and Precipitins by August von Wassermann (1904)
"I myself believe that the leucocytes are a source of complements ... Because of
the plurality of the complements, I have expressed the view that the ..."
3. Collected Studies on Immunity by Paul Ehrlich (1906)
"X. THE DEFLECTION OF complements IN BACTERICIDAL TEST-TUBE EXPERIMENTS.1 By Dr.
A. LIPSTEIN, Assistant in the Bacteriological Division. ..."
4. Assyrian Language: Easy Lessons in the Cuneiform Inscriptions by Leonard William King (1901)
"In the extracts given the ideograms have been marked by *, the determinatives by
f, and the phonetic complements by }; the 5 ..."
5. An Advanced English Grammar: With Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley (1913)
"Point out any modifiers of complements in the sentences called for in Exercise
... Introduce other modifiers of complements if you can without injuring the ..."
6. Recent Advances in Physiology and Bio-chemistry by Leonard Hill (1908)
"For example, suppose we wish to study the anti-complements produced in rabbit's
blood by the injection into the rabbit of guinea- pig's serum rendered ..."
7. Guide Books to English by Charles Benajah Gilbert (1912)
"XXXIV complements The words used to complete the predicate with verbs of ...
complements of transitive verbs are called objects or object complements. ..."
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