different between identity vs member

English

Etymology

Middle French identité, from Latin idem (“the same”). See identical and idem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??d?nt?ti/

Noun

identity (countable and uncountable, plural identities)

1. Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
   • 1997, Hydrothermal Vent Fauna, in Advances in Marine Biology: The Biogeography of the Oceans, page 111:

     […] suggesting the two are different stages of the same species. The identity of the two species is further suggested by allozyme analysis […]

2. The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind, selfhood, sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themself.

   I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.

   This nation has a strong identity.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

3. A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.

   This criminal has taken on several identities.

4. (mathematics) An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
5. (algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
6. (algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
7. (Australia, New Zealand) A well-known or famous person.
   • 1887 July 19, "Drowned at Williamstown", The Age (Melbourne)

     The body of a well known old identity named James Conroy […] was found in the water yesterday afternoon…

   • 2013 April 4, "Cricket identities consult lawyers", New Zealand Herald
   • 2016 January 13, "Kings Cross identities arrested in connection with murder", The Sydney Morning Herald

Synonyms

• (sameness): See also Thesaurus:sameness
• (difference that marks off an individual): individuality, selfhood; see also Thesaurus:selfhood
• (mathematical function): identity function
• (famous person): celebrity, personality

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Translations

References

• identity at OneLook Dictionary Search
• identity in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• identity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• identity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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)

1. One who officially belongs to a group.
2. 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

3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.

   Synonyms: limb, lith
4. (euphemistic) The penis.

   Synonyms: pintle, tarse

5. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.

   Synonyms: premise, premiss

6. (set theory) An element of a set.

   Synonym: element

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.
9. (mathematics) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
10. (computing) A file stored within an archive file.

11. (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)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) To remember.
2. (obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.

Anagrams

• membre

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?mb?r]

Noun

member (plural members)

1. member