member
verbEtymology Clipping of remember (by apheresis).
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Dialectal, Obsolete, Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of remember.
member
nounUK /ˈmɛmbə/ · US /ˈmɛmbɚ/
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 limb, from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”). Mostly displaced lith (“limb, joint, member”), from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”), which still survives in British dialect.
11 senses
- 1One who belongs to a group.
- 2A part of a whole.
- 3Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct…
- 4The penis.
- 5One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
- 6An element of a set.
- 7the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
- 8A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or…
- 9Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation…
- 10A file stored within an archive file.
- 11A function or piece of data associated with each…
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One who belongs to a group.
- “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...”2014 January 14, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant, →ISBN, page 109:
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A part of a whole.
- 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 age1979, Kenneth J. Englund, "The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carbonfierous) Systems in the United States - Virginia", Page C-14, in Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1110
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Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
- For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:4:
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Euphemistic The penis.
- If your wife is old and your member is exhausted, eat onions in plenty.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 168:
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Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
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Mathematics, Sciences, Set theory An element of a set.
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A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
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Mathematics, Sciences Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A file stored within an archive file.
- The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.
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A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
Object-oriented programming
- Derived terms
61 terms
assemblymember, bandmember, board member, cardmember, castmember, charter member, comember, councilmember, cross-member, crossmember, data member, dismember, e-member, end member, end-member, endmember, Euro-member, ex-member, founder member, founding member, gang member, guildmember, gutter member, intermember, learned member, 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 the tribe, 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, service member, servicemember, sitting member, submember, touring member, transmember, tribesmember, unmembern, virile member- Hyponyms
- crewmember, family member, male member, party member