complement vs throw into relief

complement

verb
  • To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole. 

  • To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole. 

  • To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement. 

noun
  • Fullness (of the moon). 

  • A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa. 

  • An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. 

  • Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition. 

  • A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object. 

  • A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one. 

  • A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number. 

  • One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. 

  • Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment. 

  • Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement). 

  • The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number. 

  • The whole working force of a vessel. 

  • An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. 

  • The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number. 

  • The numeric complement of a number. 

  • Synonym of alexin 

  • An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. 

  • The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). 

  • The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. 

throw into relief

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