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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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sliver
English
Etymology
From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English sl?fan (as in t?sl?fan (“to split, split up”)).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sl?v.??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sl?.v?/
- Rhymes: -?v?(r)
Noun
sliver (plural slivers)
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
- A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
- (regional US) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
Synonyms
- (long piece cut or rent off): shard, slice, splinter
Translations
See also
- slither
Verb
sliver (third-person singular simple present slivers, present participle slivering, simple past and past participle slivered)
- (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
Anagrams
- Elvirs, Silver, levirs, livers, livres, rivels, silver, svirel
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