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Deny vs Complementary - What's the difference?

deny | complementary |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between deny and complementary

is that deny is (obsolete) to refuse (to do or accept something) while complementary is (obsolete) one skilled in compliments.

As a verb deny

is to not allow.

As an adjective complementary is

acting as a complement.

As a noun complementary is

a complementary colour.

deny

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To not allow.
    • I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied .
  • * 1847 , Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey Chapter XVI
    • 'Do! pray do! I shall be the most miserable of men if you don't. You cannot be so cruel as to deny me a favour so easily granted and yet so highly prized!' pleaded he as ardently as if his life depended on it.
  • To assert that something is not true.
    • I deny that I was at the party.
    Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 1 , author=James Robinson and Lisa O'Carroll , title=Phone hacking: NoW warned about 'culture of illegal information access' , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=But Myler and Crone told the committee in September that they had made Murdoch aware at the 10 June 2008 meeting that hacking was not restricted to a single journalist. They claimed this was the reason Murdoch agreed to settle the Taylor's case. James Murdoch subsequently wrote to the committee to deny this. }}
  • To disallow
  • to refuse to give or grant something to someone
    • My father denied me a good education.
  • * J. Edwards
    • To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2008 , date=April 12 , author= , title=Mother denied daughter's organs , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=A mother who urgently needs a kidney transplant has branded the system which denied her the organs of her dying daughter as "ridiculous".}}
  • (sports) To prevent from scoring.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 3 , author=Chris Bevan , title=Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
    Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.}}
  • To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
  • * Bancroft
    • the falsehood of denying his opinion
  • * Keble
    • thou thrice denied , yet thrice beloved
  • (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).
  • * Shakespeare
    • if you deny to dance

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Synonyms

    (assert something is not true) gainsay, contradict, withsay

    Antonyms

    (not allow) allow (assert something is true) confirm, affirm

    Related terms

    * denial

    Derived terms

    * deniability * denier

    Anagrams

    * * English reporting verbs

    complementary

    English

    (wikipedia complementary)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Acting as a complement.
  • *
    • Using the terminology we intro-
    duced earlier, we might then say that black and white squares are in comple-
    mentary     distribution on a chess-board. By this we mean two things: firstly,
    black squares and white squares occupy different positions on the board: and
    secondly, the black and white squares complement each other in the sense that
    the black squares together with the white squares comprise the total set of 64
    squares found on the board (i.e. there is no square on the board which is not
    either black or white).
  • (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
  • (physics) Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)

    • Usage notes

    * Complementary and complimentary are frequently confused and misused in place of one another.

    Derived terms

    * complementarily * complementarity * complementary angle * complementary colour * complementary distribution

    Related terms

    * complemental

    Noun

    (complementaries)
  • A complementary colour.
  • (obsolete) One skilled in compliments.
    • (Ben Jonson)

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