member

Etymology 1

From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (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”)).

noun

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...” 14 January 2014, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant, 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 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
3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
4. (euphemistic) The penis.
5. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
6. (set theory) An element of a set.
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.
    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.
12. (Malaysia, slang) friend

Etymology 2

See remember.

verb

1. (obsolete outside dialects or eye dialect) To remember.