Member vs Belonger - What's the difference?
member | belonger |
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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One who belongs; a member.
* 1997 , John K. Hale, Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style (page 156)
(UK) One who has close ties to a specific overseas territory, normally by ancestry, and is therefore granted certain rights.
* 1999 , Yash P. Ghai, Hong Kong's new constitutional order (page 158)
As nouns the difference between member and belonger
is that member is member (person) while belonger is one who belongs; a member.member
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.
Synonyms
* (limb) limb, lith * (penis) penis, pintle * (of a syllogism) premise, premiss * (of a set) elementDerived terms
* crewmember * dismember * male member * member of staff * membershipDescendants
* Japanese:Etymology 2
See remember.Verb
(en verb)belonger
English
Noun
(en noun)- While both are poets of exile, Dante is more of a belonger and less of a loner.
- All British subjects (i.e., any Commonwealth citizens) born in Hong Kong were belongers .