Predicate vs. Complement — What's the Difference?

To base or establish (a statement or action, for example)

Something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection

To state or affirm as an attribute or quality of something

The quantity or number needed to make up a whole

To carry the connotation of; imply.

The full crew of personnel required to run a ship.

(Logic) To make (a term or expression) the predicate of a proposition.

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

To proclaim or assert; declare.

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

To make a statement or assertion.

(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.

(Grammar) One of the two main constituents of a sentence or clause, modifying the subject and including the verb, objects, or phrases governed by the verb, as opened the door in Jane opened the door or is very sleepy in The child is very sleepy.

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

(Logic) That part of a proposition that is affirmed or denied about the subject. For example, in the proposition We are mortal, mortal is the predicate.

(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.

(Grammar) Of or belonging to the predicate of a sentence or clause.

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

Stated or asserted; predicated.

A complementary color.

(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.

To serve as a complement to

(logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.

Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.

(computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.

(obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.

(grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.

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

Predicated, stated.

(obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory.

(law) Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.

(nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.

(transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.

(heraldry) Fullness (of the moon).

(transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.

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

To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.

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.

To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.

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.

To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.

(music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.

To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.

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

To found; to base.

(set theory) 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).

To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.

(immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.

That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "Paper is white," "Ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.

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

The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.

(electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.

Predicated.

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

(logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula;

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

One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements

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

Make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition;

The numeric complement of a number.

Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of;

(genetics) 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.

Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic;

Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment. should this be at a different ety?

(biochemistry) alexin

(economics) complementary good

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.

(obsolete) Old form of compliment

That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.

Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness.

A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.

Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.

The whole working force of a vessel.

The interval wanting to complete the octave; - the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.

A compliment.

To supply a lack; to supplement.

To compliment.

A word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction

A complete number or quantity;

Number needed to make up whole force;

Something added to complete or make perfect;

One of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response

Either of two parts that mutually complete each other

Make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to;