member
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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”)).
Alternative forms
[edit]- membre (obsolete)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): , /ˈmɛmbə/
- (US) IPA(key): , /ˈmɛmbɚ/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: mem‧ber
- Rhymes: , -ɛmbə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]member (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.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:4:
- For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:
- (euphemistic) The penis.
- (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
- (set theory) An element of a set.
- Synonym: element
- (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.
- 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
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- board member
- charter member
- cross-member
- data member
- dismember
- e-member
- end member
- end-member
- endmember
- Euro-member
- founder member
- founding member
- gang member
- life member
- member class
- member country
- member field
- member for Barkshire
- member function
- member of lower house
- member of staff
- member of the public
- member of upper house
- member organisation
- membership
- member state
- member variable
- mixed-member proportional
- non-commissioned member
- non-member
- private member's bill
- privy member
- re-member
- service member
- sitting member
- touring member
- virile member
Descendants
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Etymology 2
[edit]Clipping of remember (by apheresis).
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]member (third-person singular simple present members, present participle membering, simple past and past participle membered)
- (obsolete outside dialects) Pronunciation spelling of remember.
References
[edit]- “member”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Chinese
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: mem1 baa2
- Cantonese Pinyin: mem1 baa2
- Guangdong Romanization: mém1 ba2
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɛːm⁵⁵ paː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
[edit]member
Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English member, 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”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]member (Jawi spelling ميمبر, plural member-member, informal 1st possessive memberku, 2nd possessive membermu, 3rd possessive membernya)
Further reading
[edit]- “member” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Middle English, via Old French from Latin membrum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]member (plural members)
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