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1.3Used in the title awarded to a person admitted to certain honours.
‘Member of the Order of the British Empire’
‘Ronald Gillespie, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry, will be invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in Ottawa this morning.’
‘Murray was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to Association football on June 12, 2006 as part of the Queen's Birthday honours list.’
constituent, element, component, part, portion, piece, unit, factor, feature, attribute
2A constituent piece of a complex structure, especially a component of a load-bearing structure.
‘the main member that joins the front and rear axles’
‘Obtain written permission of the engineer prior to field cutting or altering of structural members.’
‘Hardwire can even be used on structural steel members to increase their capacity.’
‘This will entail the wooden deck over which vehicles travel and some of the main supporting members being replaced.’
‘Furthermore the use of bracing using diagonal members to make a structure stiff was well known.’
‘If main structural members are to be cut the load must be carried by temporary braces.’
2.1A part of a sentence, equation, mathematical set, etc.
‘We can use any one of the three letters in CAT as the first member of a permutation.’
‘No matter which two matrices are chosen, their matrix product will be a member of I.’
‘The set C has three members, each of which is a set of sets of shoes.’
‘A finite sporadic simple group is a finite simple group which is not a member of one of the standard infinite families.’
‘He compared two infinitely large sets and stated that they have an equal number of members.’
3archaic A part of the body, especially a limb.
‘The skeleton, which is formed by the union of about 200 bones, is divided like the body into head, trunk, and members.’
‘It is very clearly apparent from the admonitions of Galen how great is the usefulness of a knowledge of the bones, since the bones are the foundation of the rest of the parts of the body and all the members rest upon them and are supported, as proceeding from a primary base.’
‘One of the most common misconceptions about our penis is the average size of the male member.’
‘Despite the film's mild obsession with the male member, it contains enough entertaining moments and individual performances to justify its existence.’
‘Men keep exposing themselves to her, but she remains sternly unimpressed: the male member is easily available anywhere.’
‘When the honeymooners retire to the bedroom, his wife runs out screaming about the hugeness of his member.’
‘He could feel his voice becoming huskier and his member was becoming uncomfortably hard in his wet jeans.’
phallus, male member, organ, male organ, sex, erection