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department
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French département.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??p??tm(?)nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??p??tm?nt/
- Hyphenation: de?part?ment
Noun
department (plural departments)
- A part, portion, or subdivision.
- A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
- A specified aspect or quality.
- The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperature department; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.
- A subdivision of an organization.
- (often in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government
- the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department
- (in a university) One of the divisions of instructions
- the physics department; the gender studies department
- (often in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government
- A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99, Penguin 2003, p. 427:
- The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99, Penguin 2003, p. 427:
- (historical) A military subdivision of a country
- (obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
- 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture
- sudden 'departments from one extreame to another
- 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture
Synonyms
- (distinct course): province, specialty
- (division of executive government): ministry
Derived terms
- departmental
- departmentally
- Department of Redundancy Department
- department store
- fire department
- interdepartmental
- police department
- state department
- trouser department
Translations
See also
- province
- state
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member
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?ms, *m?ms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic ???????????????? (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
- membre (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?mb?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?mb?/
- Hyphenation: mem?ber
- Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
Noun
member (plural members)
- One who officially belongs to a group.
- A part of a whole.
- 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
- 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
- Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
- Synonyms: limb, lith
- (euphemistic) The penis.
- Synonyms: pintle, tarse
- (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
- Synonyms: premise, premiss
- (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.
- (object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
Hyponyms
- crewmember
- family member
- male member
- party member
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (menb?)
Translations
Etymology 2
See remember.
Alternative forms
- 'member
Verb
member (third-person singular simple present members, present participle membering, simple past and past participle membered)
- (obsolete outside dialects) To remember.
- (obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.
Anagrams
- membre
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?m?mb?r]
Noun
member (plural members)
- member
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