Member vs Agent - What's the difference?
member | agent |
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 exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent ; as, heat is a powerful agent.
(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
As nouns the difference between member and agent
is that member is one who officially belongs to a group while agent is one who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.As a verb member
is to remember.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)agent
English
(wikipedia agent)Noun
(en noun)- Heaven made us agents , free to good or ill. --Dryden.
- I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent , or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. --Herman Melville, , ch. 36