Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A word in a phrase or a morpheme in a word that conveys completeness, such as up in drink up.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Completing or tending to complete; making complete.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Making complete.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Making
complete .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The common "completive" nuance between the two concepts provides the conduit in Indo-European for the eventual restriction of non-continuous aspect to past tense even in Anatolian and the reinterpretation of the continuous in *-i as a present tense which spreads to the Anatolian hi-conjugation as such.
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The common "completive" nuance between the two concepts provides the conduit in Indo-European for the eventual restriction of non-continuous aspect to past tense even in Anatolian and the reinterpretation of the continuous in *-i as a present tense which spreads to the Anatolian hi-conjugation as such.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Back to PIE then, perhaps likewise in MIE there was once a "completive" aspect using the form *CaC- together with the *h₂e-set of personal endings distinct from the *mi-set.
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Back to PIE then, perhaps likewise in MIE there was once a "completive" aspect using the form *CaC- together with the *h₂e-set of personal endings distinct from the *mi-set.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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As a result, union contractors who typically pay their workers better and demand better working conditions are more completive to get the bid.
Mike Elk: Ballot Intiative Victory Points to Next Possible Casualty for Unions: Project Labor Agreements Mike Elk 2010
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Our trade and economic policies have not served the interest of the United States as a world power by delivering the good jobs or completive edge that we must have.
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Our trade and economic policies have not served the interest of the United States as a world power by delivering the good jobs or completive edge that we must have.
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As a result, union contractors who typically pay their workers better and demand better working conditions are more completive to get the bid.
Mike Elk: Ballot Intiative Victory Points to Next Possible Casualty for Unions: Project Labor Agreements Mike Elk 2010
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I notice that le is often mistaken by foreigners like me as a past tense marker, yet it's more accurately described as a marker of completion for both action and state, refered to as a perfective or completive.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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I notice that le is often mistaken by foreigners like me as a past tense marker, yet it's more accurately described as a marker of completion for both action and state, refered to as a perfective or completive.
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