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COMPLETING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
Synonyms:
complemental; complementary; completing
Classified under:
Similar:
additive (characterized or produced by addition)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb complete
Context examples:
The process by which a person is tested and approved to practice in a specialty field, especially medicine, after successfully completing the requirements of a board of specialists in that field.
(Board Certification, NCI Thesaurus)
A professional doctorate typically awarded by an accredited U.S. law school after successfully completing three years of post-graduate law study.
(Doctor of Law, NCI Thesaurus)
NASA has achieved a significant milestone in its effort to make supersonic passenger jet travel over land a real possibility by completing the preliminary design review (PDR) of its Quiet Supersonic Transport or QueSST aircraft design.
(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)
Although I was deeply interested in this dialogue, I could not help observing my aunt, Mr. Dick, and Janet, while it was in progress, and completing a survey I had already been engaged in making of the room.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Very little passed between them on meeting; each found her greatest safety in silence, and few and trivial were the sentences exchanged while they remained upstairs, Catherine in busy agitation completing her dress, and Eleanor with more goodwill than experience intent upon filling the trunk.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He could not have devised anything more likely to raise his consequence than this week's absence, occurring as it did at the very time of her brother's going away, of William Price's going too, and completing the sort of general break-up of a party which had been so animated.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The translation of a few pages of German occupied an hour; then I got my palette and pencils, and fell to the more soothing, because easier occupation, of completing Rosamond Oliver's miniature.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Leo also relates to beautiful design and the sophisticated use of color, so you may be completing an artistic project.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A more considerable degree of wandering attended the third repetition; and, after completing the fourth, she immediately added, Only think, my dear, of my having got that frightful great rent in my best Mechlin so charmingly mended, before I left Bath, that one can hardly see where it was.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Adams, our head-boy, who had a turn for mathematics, had made a calculation, I was informed, of the time this Dictionary would take in completing, on the Doctor's plan, and at the Doctor's rate of going.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
