Dejection vs Member - What's the difference?
dejection | member |
a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues
The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
A low condition; weakness; inability.
(medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.
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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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As nouns the difference between dejection and member
is that dejection is dejection, defecation while member is member (person).dejection
English
Noun
(en noun)- Adoration implies submission and dejection . — Bishop Pearson.
- A dejection of appetite. — Arbuthnot.
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=u_wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47&dq=dejection , page=39 , passage=No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.}}
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usPFfQCrZmcC&pg=PA103&dq=dejections , isbn=9781429044141 , page=103 , passage=His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.}}
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=FTfWiens6csC&pg=PA206&dq=dejections , isbn=9788170211761 , pages=205-206 , passage=Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections , high fever and rapid prostration.}}
Synonyms
* (defecation or feces) excrement, bowel movementmember
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.