The difference between Complete and Done
When used as adjectives, complete means with all parts included, whereas done means ready, fully cooked.
Complete is also noun with the meaning: a completed .
Complete is also verb with the meaning: to finish.
check bellow for the other definitions of Complete and Done
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Complete as a verb (transitive):
To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
Examples:
"He completed the assignment on time."
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Complete as a verb (transitive):
To make whole or entire.
Examples:
"The last chapter completes the book nicely."
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Complete as an adjective:
With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
Examples:
"My life will be complete once I buy this new television."
"She offered me complete control of the project."
"After she found the rook, the chess set was complete."
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Complete as an adjective:
Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
Examples:
"When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin."
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Complete as an adjective:
.
Examples:
"He is a complete bastard!"
"It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep."
"Our vacation was a complete disaster."
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Complete as an adjective (analysis, of a [[metric space]]):
In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
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Complete as an adjective (algebra, of a [[lattice]]):
In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
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Complete as an adjective (math, of a [[category]]):
In which all small limits exist.
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Complete as an adjective (logic, of a proof system of a [[formal system]] with respect to a given [[semantics]]):
In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
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Complete as an adjective (computing theory, of a [[problem]]):
That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).
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Complete as a noun:
A completed .
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Done as an adjective (of food):
Ready, fully cooked.
Examples:
"As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat."
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Done as an adjective:
Having completed or finished an activity.
Examples:
"He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done."
"They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived."
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Done as an adjective:
Being exhausted or fully spent.
Examples:
"When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days."
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Done as an adjective:
Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
Examples:
"He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish."
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Done as an adjective:
Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
Examples:
"I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done!"
"What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!"
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Done as a verb:
Examples:
"I have ''done'' my work."
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Done as a verb (African American Vernacular English, Southern American English, auxiliary verb, taking a [[past tense]]):
Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.
Examples:
"I done did my best to raise y'all."
"I woke up and found out she done left."
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Done as a verb (obsolete):
plural simple present form of
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Done as a noun (colloquial, slang):
Examples:
"on the done"