The difference between Complement and Crew

When used as nouns, complement means something (or someone) that completes, whereas crew means any company of people.

When used as verbs, complement means to complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole, whereas crew means to be a member of a vessel's crew.

check bellow for the other definitions of Complement and Crew

  1. Complement as a noun (now, _, rare):

    Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.

  2. Complement as a noun (obsolete):

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

  3. Complement as a noun:

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

  4. Complement as a noun (obsolete):

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

  5. Complement as a noun (nautical):

    The whole working force of a vessel.

  6. Complement as a noun (heraldry):

    Fullness (of the moon).

  7. Complement as a noun (astronomy, geometry):

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

  8. Complement as a noun:

    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.

  9. Complement as a noun (grammar):

    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.

  10. Complement as a noun (music):

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

  11. Complement as a noun (optics):

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

    Examples:

    "The complement of blue is orange."

  12. Complement as a noun (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).

    Examples:

    "The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers."

  13. Complement as a noun (immunology):

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

  14. Complement as a noun (logic):

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

  15. Complement as a noun (electronics):

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

  16. Complement as a noun (computing):

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

  17. Complement as a noun (computing, mathematics):

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

    Examples:

    "The complement of <math>01100101_2</math> is <math>10011010_2</math>."

  18. Complement as a noun (computing, mathematics):

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

    Examples:

    "The complement of <math>01100101_2</math> is <math>10011011_2</math>."

  19. Complement as a noun (computing, mathematics):

    The numeric complement of a number.

    Examples:

    "The complement of &minus;123 is 123."

  20. Complement as a noun (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.

    Examples:

    "A DNA molecule is formed from two strands, each of which is the complement of the other."

  21. Complement as a noun:

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  22. Complement as a noun (biochemistry):

  1. Complement as a verb:

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

    Examples:

    "We believe your addition will complement the team."

  2. Complement as a verb:

    To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides.

    Examples:

    "The flavors of the pepper and garlic complement each other, giving a very rich taste in combination."

    "I believe our talents really complement each other."

  3. Complement as a verb:

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

  4. Complement as a verb:

  1. Crew as a noun (obsolete):

    A group of people together Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft. A group of people working together on a task. The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast. A close group of friends. A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker. A group of Rovers. A hip-hop group A rowing team manning a single shell.

    Examples:

    "If you need help, please contact a member of the crew."

    "The crews of the two ships got into a fight."

    "The crews competed to cut the most timber."

    "There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!"

    "The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night."

    "I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's."

  2. Crew as a noun (plural: crew):

    A person in a crew A member of the crew of a vessel or plant. A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast. A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.

    Examples:

    "One crew died in the accident."

    "There were three actors and six crew on the set."

    "The officers and crew assembled on the deck."

    "There are quarters for three officers and five crew."

  3. Crew as a noun (sports, rowing, US, uncountable):

    The sport of competitive rowing.

  1. Crew as a verb (transitive, _, and, _, intransitive):

    To be a member of a vessel's crew

    Examples:

    "We crewed together on a fishing boat last year."

    "The ship was crewed by fifty sailors."

  2. Crew as a verb:

    To be a member of a work or production crew

    Examples:

    "The film was crewed and directed by students."

  3. Crew as a verb:

    To supply workers or sailors for a crew

  4. Crew as a verb (nautical):

    To do the proper work of a sailor

    Examples:

    "The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient."

  5. Crew as a verb (nautical):

    To take on, recruit (new) crew

  1. Crew as a verb (British, archaic):

    To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.

    Examples:

    "It was still dark when the cock crew."

  1. Crew as a noun (British, dialectal):

    A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

  1. Crew as a noun:

    The Manx shearwater.

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