member
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛmbə/
ipa: /ˈmɛmbɚ/
rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: members
form: membre
Etymology: 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”)).
Senses: examples: text: “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...”
ref: 2014 January 14, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: One who belongs to a group.
examples: text: The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
text: The member intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age
ref: 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
synonyms: integrant
glosses: A part of a whole.
examples: text: For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:4:
synonyms: limb
lith
glosses: Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
examples: text: If your wife is old and your member is exhausted, eat onions in plenty.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 168:
synonyms: pintle
tarse
virile member
glosses: The penis.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: premise
premiss
glosses: One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
synonyms: element
glosses: An element of a set.
topics: law
glosses: the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
glosses: A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
examples: text: The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file stored within an archive file.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
Hyponyms: crewmember
family member
male member
party member
Derived terms: assemblymember
bandmember
board member
cardmember
castmember
charter member
comember
councilmember
cross-member
crossmember
data member
dismember
e-member
end-member
endmember
end member
Euro-member
ex-member
founder member
founding member
gang member
guildmember
gutter member
intermember
life member
member bank
member class
member country
member field
member for Barkshire
member function
memberless
memberlist
member of lower house
member of staff
member of the public
member of upper house
member organisation
membership
member state
member variable
memberwise
membrification
mixed-member proportional
multimember
non-commissioned member
non-member
private member's bill
privy member
re-member
servicemember
service member
sitting member
submember
touring member
transmember
tribesmember
unmembern
virile member