incomplete

«incomplete» in Mova's school dictionary: not finished or with some parts missing — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (incomplete)

meaning for a pupil

Incomplete means not finished or with some parts missing. tree →

sense in the lessons

School (incomplete homework, incomplete sentences), maths (incomplete tables, missing numbers), science (incomplete data).

examples

• Your homework is incomplete. tree →
• This puzzle is incomplete; three pieces are missing. tree →
• «Ran to the» is an incomplete sentence. tree →
• Fill in the incomplete table. tree →
• The data was incomplete, so we repeated the test. tree →
• The house was still incomplete when they moved in. tree →
• Thus when Prometheus created the first man, Momus considered his work incomplete because there was no aperture in the breast through which his inmost thoughts might be read. tree →

note

Opposite: complete. Noun: incompleteness. In maths an incomplete pattern or table asks you to find the missing values.

In the corpora

• A subordinate clause written alone, like «Because it was raining.», is an incomplete sentence.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «incomplete» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.