different between member vs skerrick
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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skerrick
English
Etymology
Origin unknown. Originally used in British dialect.
Pronunciation
Noun
skerrick (plural skerricks)
- (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 117:
- When he reached this point in his madness, it disabled whatever skerrick of common sense he might have had even to save himself.
- 2007, Kennedy Warne, Blue Haven, National Geographic (April 2007), 74,
- "And all I can think is that they're seeing a crumb, a skerrick of what it once was".
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 117:
References
Anagrams
- Kerricks
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