Ally vs Member - What's the difference?
ally | member |
To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy
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To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
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One united to another by treaty or league; — usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
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Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
* (rfdate) Buckle:
Anything akin to something else by structure, etc.
(taxonomy) A closely related species, usually within the same family.
(obsolete) A relative; a kinsman.
(a glass marble or taw)
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",
Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
* Bible, Rom. xii. 4
The penis.
(logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
(set theory) An element of a set.
(computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, a function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
(AU, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
(math) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
(obsolete) To remember.
(obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.
(Webster 1913)
1000 English basic words
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In obsolete terms the difference between ally and member
is that ally is a relative; a kinsman while member is to cause to remember; to mention.As verbs the difference between ally and member
is that ally is to unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy while member is to remember.As nouns the difference between ally and member
is that ally is one united to another by treaty or league; — usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate while member is one who officially belongs to a group.As a proper noun Ally
is a diminutive of the female given names Alison, Alice and Alexandra.ally
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) alien, (etyl) alier (Modern French allier), from (etyl) . Compare alligate, allay, alloy and ligament.Verb
(en-verb)- O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied .
- These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied .
- The virtue nearest to our vice allied .
Usage notes
* Generally used in the passive form or reflexively. * Often followed by to'' or ''with .Synonyms
* make common causeNoun
(allies)- the English soldiers and their French allies
- Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally.
- Gruiformes — cranes and allies
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
Diminutive of alabaster.Noun
(allies)References
*Anagrams
* English heteronymsmember
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) membre, from (etyl) membre, from (etyl) . Coexists with native (etyl) lim, ).Alternative forms
* membre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
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
- We have many members' in one body, and all ' members have not the same office.