What's the difference between dismember and member?

Dismember


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of membership.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Five different surgical procedures were done: internal urethrotomy, Johanson-Leadbetter, patch-graft, Turner-Warwich, and dismembered technics.
  • (2) The Cali cartel was dismembered by mid-1995, but when members of Samper's own campaign, who were under investigation, implicated him in the drugs scandal, the US administration imposed sanctions, undermining confidence in what had been South America's most stable economy.
  • (3) One corpse was dismembered by means of an explosive.
  • (4) That was a good deal less true of the previous year's Munich agreement, in which British and French politicians dismembered Czechoslovakia at the Nazi dictator's pleasure.
  • (5) A 9-year-old child was admitted to the hospital with congenital left ureteropelvic junction obstruction with massive left pyelocaliectasis and underwent dismembered pyeloplasty of the left kidney under general anesthesia without complications.
  • (6) Representative Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, pressed her: “You would not assert that it’s inhumane to dismember an unborn baby?” Smith attempted to explain that she would not describe it in the same terms, but he too cut her off.
  • (7) Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum, said it was "crazy" to dismember the FSA.
  • (8) All patients had had dismembered pyeloplasty performed at the age of 9 months to 15 years 2 months.
  • (9) Some Europeans arrived here with millennial history of chopping off enemies' heads and mounting them on stakes, and of scalping, skinning, dismembering, and other tortures and trophy-hunting.
  • (10) "I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by failing foreign companies whose actions are fuelled by tax avoidance, and who want to asset-strip the intellectual property of the British company and then dismember it," said Sainsbury, writing in the Guardian.
  • (11) If the Tories choose to swerve to the right, I don't see how that could possibly be worse than the direction they have already chosen, in which they cut immigration in the wrong places, like student visas, attack the unemployed, scam the disabled, dismember education and outsource or flog anything valuable they can see – to the inevitable profit of someone they were probably at school with.
  • (12) I’d be surprised if he wants to go down as the PM who dismembered the BBC.” Hall was spotted having a cup of tea in the House of Lords last week with fellow peer Lord Inglewood, a former chair of the House of Lords select committee on communications.
  • (13) Local taxi driver Philippe told Belgium website DH.be that he walked into the terminal and faced a “pond of blood” and “dismembered bodies”.
  • (14) We presently prefer a dismembered, nonintubated technique performed through a dorsal lumbotomy approach.
  • (15) The Culp-DeWeerd vertical flap pyeloplasty and the dismembered Anderson-Hynes technique were modified by means of microsurgical instruments, optical magnification and fine absorbable polyglactine sutures, described in detail and used in 11 and 8 cases, respectively.
  • (16) The apparent strategy of Pfizer is to take over AstraZeneca, dismember it and put the different parts of it into its three new divisions, with the ultimate aim of selling off one or more.
  • (17) He blames others for failures and allows them insufficient credit for successes, as the current dismembering of Alistair Darling's reputation shows.
  • (18) Burrows is already working on dismembering his trust.
  • (19) EU attempting to unsettle Syriza government in Greece | Letters Read more With the young premier clearly at odds over how to deal with the hardliners, there is growing speculation, not least among eurozone officials, that a new bailout accord to keep the country afloat can only be achieved if Tsipras agrees to dismember his own party and join up with centrist forces to form a new coalition.
  • (20) The operative technique and drainage procedure varied according to the nature and severity of the abnormality but the dismembered pyeloplasty with extrarenal drainage is favored.

Member


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.
  • (n.) A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
  • (n.) Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body
  • (n.) A part of a discourse or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.
  • (n.) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the sign of equality.
  • (n.) Any essential part, as a post, tie rod, strut, etc., of a framed structure, as a bridge truss.
  • (n.) Any part of a building, whether constructional, as a pier, column, lintel, or the like, or decorative, as a molding, or group of moldings.
  • (n.) One of the persons composing a society, community, or the like; an individual forming part of an association; as, a member of the society of Friends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
  • (2) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
  • (3) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
  • (4) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
  • (5) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (6) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
  • (7) In the 2nd family, several members had cerebellar signs, chorea, and dementia.
  • (8) These tumors may nonetheless be etiologically related as indicated by the pattern of laboratory abnormalities, especially immunologic, in affected as well as unaffected members.
  • (9) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
  • (10) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
  • (11) "These developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals in these two member states and the steps that they are taking to reinforce those fundamentals."
  • (12) In every case the patient was the first affected family member.
  • (13) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
  • (14) In this paper sensitive and selective bioassays are described for growth factors acting on substrate-attached cells, in particular members of the epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factor beta, platelet-derived growth factor, insulin-like growth factor, and heparin-binding growth factor families.
  • (15) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
  • (16) Half of the DRw11-positive panel members are DQw3 negative and DQw1 positive.
  • (17) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
  • (18) From November, 1972 to November, 1974 the members of the team of a haemodialysis unit were systematically given Australia antigen immunoglobulin protection.
  • (19) A “significant” number of resignations from the party had come in on Tuesday and Giles queried whether the CLP still had the 500 members it needs to remain registered.
  • (20) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.