What's the difference between forum and member?

Forum


Definition:

  • (n.) A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.
  • (n.) A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (2) The Future Forum is a group of 57 health sector specialists chaired by the Professor Steve Field, the former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
  • (3) Angela Barnes As I understand it, dating websites are supposed to provide a confidential forum for the exchange of personal information between people who do not yet know each other but might like to.
  • (4) Baroness Jenny Tonge, president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), said the Cairo agreement was akin to a "Copernicus revolution".
  • (5) On the mothers' internet forum Mumsnet, 44% of women who voted in a post-debate survey said they were now thinking of voting Lib Dem, compared with 23% three weeks ago.
  • (6) One mortgage payer, writing on the MoneySavingExpert forum, said: "They are asking for an extra £200 per month for the remaining nine years of our mortgage.
  • (7) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
  • (8) Last night the EDL said in an emailed statement that it was "not aware of any contact between Breivik and EDL leadership … of anyone using the name Sigurd and the forum".
  • (9) For gene therapy, four significant forums emerged: the President's Commission's Report Splicing Life, the 1982 Congressional Hearings, the OTA Report, and the RAC's Points to Consider document.
  • (10) At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Netanyahu declared he would not “uproot a single settler” from the Jordan Valley.
  • (11) And if you don’t believe what I say, look to the World Economic Forum, hardly a hotbed of feminist thought.” That got a laugh, too – but it was still Clinton’s first big f-bomb of the campaign.
  • (12) Esfandyar Batmanghelidj is organising the second Europe-Iran forum in Geneva in September, which brings Iranian business leaders and foreign investors – including France’s Alstom, the United Arab Emirate’s Aujan, and Italy’s SACE – together.
  • (13) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
  • (14) In the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, it became increasingly apparent to those in advanced practice roles that a forum was needed to provide a supportive milieu in which nursing staff in expanded and advanced practice roles could come together and discuss the clinical needs of patients and nursing practice issues.
  • (15) U is for United States As ever, there will be plenty of American businessmen on parade at the forum, since they like a few days' R&R in the Alps.
  • (16) Within the hospital, detailed and multidisciplinary discussion will need to take place within the forum of the radiation safety committee.
  • (17) These patient groups constituted a forum for discussion and definition of individual treatment goals.
  • (18) No: what people really objected to – again, see the Man Booker forum – was not the genre but the quality.
  • (19) We invite the Collaborative Partnership on Forests to continue its support to the Forum and encourage stakeholders to remain actively engaged in the work of the Forum.
  • (20) There was Paul Nicolaou, the head of the Liberal party fundraising arm the Millennium Forum who, the Icac was told, was getting a $5,000 a month lobbying fee.

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.