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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
incomplete
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
still
▪ Two years later, however, with negotiations still incomplete, Edward embarked on his abortive campaign with the results described above.
▪ It could even be argued that their liberation is still incomplete today.
▪ The enquiry into the occurrence, they said, was still incomplete.
▪ More than three decades later that evolution is still under way, and still incomplete.
▪ Hauge says his assessment is still incomplete, since he has not yet had access to Soviet military records.
▪ The first year of the pilot programme is still incomplete.
▪ Our understanding of these systems is, however, still incomplete.
■ NOUN
data
▪ Conclusions drawn from applying statistical techniques to incomplete data may be very misleading.
▪ Participants with incomplete data were excluded from the analyses including the missing variables.
▪ They can learn from and make decisions based on incomplete data.
information
▪ When it's ill-conceived, ill-considered or based on incomplete information, the Profitboss won't criticize the critic.
▪ Both are obliged to make decisions on incomplete information.
▪ Design, development and management have in common the absolute necessity of taking action based on incomplete information.
▪ Apologies: last week's story on the Sparc Architecture Version 9 specification was incorrect, and based upon incomplete information.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
incomplete drawings
Incomplete historical records have made the investigation more difficult.
▪ an incomplete job application
▪ For many, a good meal is incomplete without a fine wine.
▪ Historical records for this time are incomplete.
▪ The excavation of the tunnel is still incomplete.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Current data on which regulatory decisions are based, because they are incomplete, give an imprecise estimate of risk.
▪ Democrats said the McCollum-Zeliff charges were an incomplete sneak preview of conclusions expected when their committees have completed a full report.
▪ Midway through the second quarter, Steve Young aggravated his groin while running toward the sideline and throwing an incomplete pass.
▪ None the less, the success of this program was incomplete.
▪ Superficial shortcuts result in incomplete healing.
▪ The database is also obviously incomplete, being little more than a list of fields for you to fill in.
▪ To date £6.7 million has been spent on two incomplete ferry terminals at Gills Bay and Burwick.
▪ While incomplete, the steps that were taken laid the foundation for Workplace 2000.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incomplete

Incomplete \In`com*plete"\, a. [L. incompletus: cf. F. incomplet. See In- not, and Complete.]

  1. Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.

    A most imperfect and incomplete divine.
    --Milton.

  2. (Bot.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower.

    Incomplete equation (Alg.), an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incomplete

late 14c., from Latin incompletus "incomplete," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + completus (see complete).

Wiktionary
incomplete

a. 1 Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective. 2 (context botany English) Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs. n. 1 Something incomplete. 2 # (context Internet English) A multipart file posted to Usenet that is incomplete and thus unusable. 3 # (context Internet English) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects. 4 A designation of being incomplete.

WordNet
incomplete
  1. adj. not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass" [syn: uncomplete] [ant: complete]

  2. lacking one or more of the four whorls of the complete flower--sepals or petals or stamens or pistils; "an incomplete flower" [ant: complete, complete]

  3. not yet finished; "his thesis is still incomplete"; "an uncompleted play" [syn: uncompleted]

Wikipedia
Incomplete (Sisqo song)
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Incomplete (album)

Incomplete is the third album by the Dutch death metal band Nembrionic. It was released in 1998 by Displeased Records. The final tracks contains aside from a short song, a lot of drunkmans talk, a cover of The Knack's "My Sharona", re-titled as "My Corona" and the fun-song in Dutch "Boer daar ligt een kip in't water".

Incomplete (Hoobastank song)

"Incomplete" is the third single from Hoobastank's album Fight or Flight, released on July 24, 2013.

Incomplete (Backstreet Boys song)

"Incomplete" is a song by American vocal group Backstreet Boys from their comeback album, Never Gone. The power ballad was released in April 2005 as the group's first single since they decided to reunite after a two-year hiatus. It was written by Dan Muckala, Lindy Robbins, and Jess Cates, and it was produced by Muckala.

The song became one of their most successful singles, peaking at number thirteen on the US Billboard Hot 100, and charting within the top 10 of fourteen countries. It debuted at number one in Australia, becoming their first number-one hit in the country. This song has earned Gold certification in the U.S.,. In the US, it was their last successful single.

This song was also featured on the 2005 compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 19.

Incomplete

Incomplete may refer to:

  • A piece of work that is not finished
  • Gödel's incompleteness theorems, a specification of logic
  • Incomplete (band)
  • "Incomplete" (Bad Religion song), a track from the album Stranger Than Fiction by Bad Religion
  • "Incomplete" (Sisqó song)
  • "Incomplete" (Backstreet Boys song)
  • Incomplete (album), by Nembrionic
  • "Incomplete" (Nembrionic song), a track on the above album
  • Incomplete abortion (or incomplete miscarriage), a medical term
  • Incomplete (Alanis Morissette song)

Usage examples of "incomplete".

In the case of areflexic patients with incomplete lesions, three-fourths of them have intercourse, and more than half have ejaculations and orgasms.

Frustratingly incomplete as his observations had been, his had been the only eyes located to watch the Junction at all for Second Fleet.

Menstruation after hysterectomy and ovariotomy has been attributed to the incomplete removal of the organs in question, yet upon postmortem examination of some cases no vestige of the functional organs in question has been found.

The fourth, incomplete album began with a sparkle of her chastest images: Armande in a pink parka, Armande jewel-bright, Armande careening on skis through the sugar dust.

Without these teeth the proof of the corpus delicti would have been incomplete, and so afforded Webster a fair chance of acquittal.

Bastille, but the wits still persisted in being amusing, and there were some who considered a jest incomplete that was not followed by a prosecution.

Bible are incomplete and somewhat misleading, it is essentially correct in several areas.

It would be most accurate, but still very incomplete, to say that when he got back to the Longline the younger traveller held a much more tolerant attitude toward the boring aspects of space-casting than had been the case earlier.

Saudis, however, were reluctant to provide details of incomplete investigations and highly sensitive to any information related to Saudi nationals,particularly those in the Kingdom.

Most contained incomplete or noncomplementary copies of the genomes and were unable to function, or contained so many copies than transcription was halting and imperfect.

Eumenes and the Odynerus, cousins of the Cerceris, which sting their prey in places as yet ill determined, not indeed so many isolated attempts, but an incomplete process of invention, an attempt at procedures still in the fact of formation: in a word, the birth of that marvellous instinct which ends in the transcendent art of the Sphex and the Ammophila.

Life is incomplete without the enjoyment of healthy organs and faculties, for these give rise to the delightful sensations of existence.

He knew as surely as if he had seen them that there were more papyri hidden under that sterile surfacemore ostraca, more stelaenew inscriptions, perhaps even the missing fragments of some of the tantalizingly incomplete texts he had translated.

Other printers might issue texts filled with errors, using incomplete fonts of Greek type, but not Aldus.

A man like Rainbird is essentially incomplete emotionally and pretty much of a coward at heart.