member

Noun

member (plural members)

1. One who belongs to a group.
   • “Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”2014 January 14, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant, →ISBN, page 109
2. A part of a whole.
   • The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
   • The member intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age1979, Kenneth J. Englund, "The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carbonfierous) Systems in the United States - Virginia", Page C-14, in Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1110

   Synonyms:

   integrant

3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
   • For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:4

   Synonyms:

   limb, lith

4. (euphemistic) The penis.
   • If your wife is old and your member is exhausted, eat onions in plenty.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 168

   Synonyms:

   pintle, tarse, virile member

5. One of the propositions making up a syllogism.

   Synonyms:

   premise, premiss

6. An element of a set.

   Synonyms:

   element

7. (Australia) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
8. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
9. Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
10. A file stored within an archive file.
    • The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.
11. (object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.