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noun

Member n.

(Anat.) A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. "We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office."

Hence: A part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body; as:

(a)

A part of a discourse or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.

(b)

(Math.) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the sign of equality.

(c)

(Engin.) Any essential part, as a post, tie rod, strut, etc., of a framed structure, as a bridge truss.

(d)

(Arch.) Any part of a building, whether constructional, as a pier, column, lintel, or the like, or decorative, as a molding, or group of moldings.

(e)

One of the persons composing a society, community, or the like; an individual forming part of an association; as, a member of the society of Friends.

(f)

(Math.) One of the elements which, taken together, comprise a set.

(g)

(Math.) One of the individual objects which comprise a group or class.

Compression member, Tension member (Engin.), a member, as a rod, brace, etc., which is subjected to compression or tension, respectively.

verb

Member v. t. To remember; to cause to remember; to mention. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Member'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Member" Quotes from Famous Books

... striking where no connection is implied; but if through a range of barred clouds, crossing half the heaven, all governed by the same forces and falling into one general form, there be yet a marked and evident dissimilarity between each member of the great mass—one more finely drawn, the next more delicately moulded, the next more gracefully bent—each broken into differently modelled and variously numbered groups, the variety is doubly striking, because contrasted with the perfect symmetry of which it forms a part. Hence, the ...

— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin

... of circumstances, M. de Camors, toward the end of his twenty-eighth year, was elected, at intervals of a few days, member of the Council-General, and deputy to the ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... agent of the colonies and as a member of the Continental Congress his mind clearly saw how valuable to the American cause an alliance with France and other Continental powers would be. While in Europe as an agent of the colonies he gave his energy and experience to assisting a secret committee to negotiate foreign ...

— True to His Home - A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin • Hezekiah Butterworth

... both God and his ministers, as I Richard Bome [sic] will justify bothe by my othe and the testimony of many honest men, and almost all men with whome he hath conversed any tyme will testefy the same: and, as I thincke, all men in christianitei ought to endevor that the mouth of so dangerous a member may ...

— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe

... be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any annual meeting, notice of such amendment having been read at the previous annual meeting, or a copy of the proposed amendment having been mailed by any member to each member thirty days before the date ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Sixth Annual Meeting. Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 • Various

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