compartment; department &c. (class) 75; county &c. (region) 181.
V. part, divide, break &c. (disjoin) 44; partition &c. (apportion)
786.
Adj. fractional, fragmentary; sectional, aliquot; divided &c. v.; in
compartments, multifid[obs3]; disconnected; partial.
Adv. partly, in part, partially; piecemeal, part by part; by
installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets; bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop; in detail, in lots.
#52. Completeness.
— N. completeness &c. adj.; completion &c.
729;
integration; allness[obs3].
entirety; perfection
&c. 650; solidity, solidarity; unity; all; ne
plus ultra[Lat], ideal, limit.
complement, supplement,
make-weight; filling, up &c. v.
impletion[obs3]; saturation,
saturity|; high water; high tide, flood
tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful[obs3];
brimmer[obs3]; sufficiency &c. 639.
V. be complete &c. adj.;
come to a head.
render complete &c.
adj.; complete &c. (accomplish) 729; fill, charge,
load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out[Fr],
eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill
to the brim, fill the measure of; saturate.
go the whole hog, go
the whole length; go all lengths.
Adj. complete, entire;
whole &c. 50; perfect &c. 650; full, good,
absolute, thorough, plenary; solid, undivided; with
all its parts; all-sided.
exhaustive, radical,
sweeping, thorough-going; dead.
regular, consummate,
unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional,
free; abundant &c. (sufficient) 639.
brimming; brimful, topful,
topfull; chock full, choke full; as full as
an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch; saturated,
crammed; replete &c. (redundant) 641; fraught, laden;
full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged; heavy laden.
completing &c. v.; supplemental,
supplementary; ascititious[obs3].
Adv. completely &c.
adj.; altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in
toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually,
for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and
thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel, neck and
crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points,
out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo[Lat];
utterly; clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to
the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart
and soul, root and branch, down to the ground.
to the top of one’s
bent, as far as possible, a outrance[obs3].
throughout; from first
to last, from beginning to end, from end to
end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba,
from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom,
de fond en comble[Fr]; a fond, a capite ad calcem
[Lat], ab ovo usque ad mala[Lat], fore and aft; every,
whit, every inch; cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter;
up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes; as
. . . as can be.
on all accounts; sous
tous les rapports[Fr]; with a vengeance, with a
witness.
Phr. falsus in uno falsus
in omnibus [Latin: false in one thing, false
in everything]; omnem movere lapidem[Lat]; una scopa
nuova spazza bene [Italian].