Word definition: member

Etimology


From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus. Coexists with native Middle English lim, limb (“member, limb, joint”) (from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”)), and displaced Middle English lith (“limb, joint, member”) (from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”)).

noun


member (plural members)

One who belongs to a group.

A part of a whole.

Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.

(euphemistic) The penis.

(logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.

(set theory) An element of a set.

(Australia, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.

A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.

(mathematics) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.

(computing) A file stored within an archive file.

(object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.

(Malaysia, slang) friend

Examples


“Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”

The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.

The member intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age

Synonyms: limb, lith

For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:

Synonyms: pintle, tarse

Synonyms: premise, premiss

Synonym: element

The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.

Related words


hyponyms

crewmember

family member

male member

party member

Etimology


See remember.

verb


member (third-person singular simple present members, present participle membering, simple past and past participle membered)

(obsolete outside dialects or eye dialect) To remember.

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