different between member vs attendee

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

English

Etymology

attend +? -ee

Noun

attendee (plural attendees)

1. A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.
   • 2000, Russian Government, Federal Constitutional Law ?3 dated December 25, 2000

     During the official performance of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation all attendees are supposed to stand and men take their hats off.
2. A visitor or participant of an event.
   • 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, chapter 11

     O'Reilly, the summit host, remembers a particularly insightful comment from Torvalds, a summit attendee.

3. (uncommon) A person who is attended.

Synonyms

• (participant in an event): audience (member), participant
• (person in attendance): attender, audience (member)

Attender was originally the only word for a person attending. As with most nouns formed from verbs, as payer, trainer, employer, it was the receiver of action that was formed with -ee, as with payee, trainee, employee. In the 1980s with the advent of spell-checkers, the word attender was erroneously flagged as misspelled and attendee was its replacement. Since then attender is no longer in popular usage.

Related terms

• attendant

Translations

References

Anagrams

• edentate