member

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Pronunciation
/ˈmɛmbə/
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/ˈmɛmbə/ · /ˈmɛmbɚ/ · /ˈmɪ̟mbɚ/ · /ˈmembə/

Definition of member

12 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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...””
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noun

  1. 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...””
  2. 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 age”
  3. 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:”
  4. (euphemistic)The penis.
    “If your wife is old and your member is exhausted, eat onions in plenty.”
  5. One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
  6. An element of a set.
  7. (Australia)the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
  8. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
  9. Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
  10. A file stored within an archive file.
    “The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.”
  11. A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.

verb

  1. (alt-of, dialectal, obsolete, pronunciation-spelling)Pronunciation spelling of remember.

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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…

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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.

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