Member

/ˈmɛmbə/ · noun

Meaning

One who belongs to a group..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who belongs to a group.
2. A part of a whole.
3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
4. (euphemistic) The penis.
5. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
6. (set theory) An element of a set.
7. (Australia, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
8. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.

Example Sentences

“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

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

If your wife is old and your member is exhausted, eat onions in plenty.

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

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Word Forms

• members
• membre
• membering
• membered
• 'member

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