What's the difference between member and proposition?

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.

Proposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
  • (n.) That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.
  • (n.) A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.
  • (n.) A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.
  • (n.) A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or of an operation to be performed.
  • (n.) That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
  • (n.) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data support the proposition that the latency of P300 corresponds to stimulus evaluation time and is independent of response selection.
  • (2) The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners.
  • (3) The major propositions of self-efficacy theory are described and related to the experience of women approaching labor.
  • (4) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
  • (5) This paper briefly explores the following propositions: People usually attend their doctors with complaints of individual functioning.
  • (6) This study tests the proposition that selected behaviors of both mother and infant during feeding are predictors of weight gain during the 1st mth of life.
  • (7) Selection of dominant follicle(s)--a speculative proposition assuming timely and selective activation of the IGF-I system in "chosen" follicles.
  • (8) The paper finishes with concrete propositions of proceeding when the computer system is implemented and shows possibilities of scientific data evaluation of a microbiological data base.
  • (9) To evaluate the generality of this proposition we studied procedural learning on three different tasks in an amnesic patient who displayed no signs of intellectual deterioration including problem-solving difficulty.
  • (10) Recent data are cited for the proposition that these changes constitute a closed pathogenetic concatenation creating a vicious circle.
  • (11) Meanwhile, California voters pass Proposition 8, the controversial ballot measure that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
  • (12) This proposition is justified by the severe side effects of the currently used chronic anticonvulsant drug therapy in febrile seizures (phenobarbital and valproate).
  • (13) In view of the facts that uric acid is a common end-product of human and animal metabolism, it is abundantly present in the avian faecal matter and is capable of inducing mucoid growth and capsule formation in dry growing non-encapsulated strains or in an otherwise rough looking hypha forming isolate, its role in studying the phylogenesis of C. neoformans and its pathogenicity seems to be an important proposition.
  • (14) The dotcom fiasco, and that is what it looks like, noting as we do many more complaints over praise for the current proposition, leaves a bitter taste for investors to our minds.
  • (15) The author rejects the proposition, encountered in some parts of the psychoanalytic and social-science literature, that certain types of disturbances correspond to certain epochs or forms of society.
  • (16) The government would also be making a big call if it refused to budge because it would risk having to negotiate with the disparate group of crossbench senators to salvage the deal, a difficult proposition on such a significant trade agreement.
  • (17) It is first reasserted that the idea that the problem drinking paradigm is nothing more than a bid by psychologists to take over the alcohol studies field is neither a useful nor serious proposition.
  • (18) "The moon is very visible and any proposition by another country to set up a permanent presence there would be unacceptable to the Americans."
  • (19) Although the amino acid sequences of the two ferritin subunits (H and L) diverge in about 50% of the coding region, their five alpha-helices and the exon sizes of their genes are compatible with the proposition that they diverged from a single ancestral gene.
  • (20) In this life,” he said, smiling, “you have to make some money.” He then spelled out the cartel’s proposition: it would pay Sirleaf handsomely in exchange for his help in using Liberia as a transit hub for smuggling cocaine from Colombia into Europe.

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