member
Etymology 1
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Etymology 1
From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum, from itc-pro *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms.
Coexists with native Middle English lim, limb ("member, limb, joint") (from Old English lim), and displaced Middle English lith (from Old English liþ).
Pronunciation Nounmember (plural members)
- One who belongs to a group.
- A part of a whole.
- The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
- 1979, Kenneth J. Englund, "The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carbonfierous) Systems in the United States - Virginia", Page C-14 ↗, in Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1110
- The member intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age
- Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
- Synonyms: limb, lith
- (euphemism) The penis.
- Synonyms: pintle, tarse
- (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
- Synonyms: premise, premiss
(set theory) An element of a set. - Synonyms: element
- (AU, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
- A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
- (math) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
- (computing) A file stored within an archive file.
- The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.
- (object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
- (Malaysia, slang) friend
- French: membre
- German: Mitglied
- Italian: membro, iscritto, membra, iscritta
- Portuguese: membro, sócio
- Russian: член
- Spanish: miembro
member (members, present participle membering; simple past and past participle membered)
- (obsolete, outside, dialects) Pronunciation spelling of remember
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