The difference between Account and Membership
When used as nouns, account means a registry of pecuniary transactions, whereas membership means the state of being a member of a group or organization.
Account is also verb with the meaning: to present an account of.
check bellow for the other definitions of Account and Membership
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Account as a noun (accounting):
A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
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Account as a noun (banking):
A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
Examples:
"to keep one's account at the bank."
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Account as a noun:
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
Examples:
"No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena."
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Account as a noun:
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
Examples:
"on no account"
"on every account"
"on all accounts"
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Account as a noun (business):
A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
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Account as a noun:
A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
Examples:
"An account of a battle."
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Account as a noun:
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
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Account as a noun:
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
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Account as a noun:
An authorization to use a service.
Examples:
"I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project."
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Account as a noun (archaic):
A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
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Account as a noun:
Profit; advantage.
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Account as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To provide explanation. To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. To estimate, consider (something to be as described). To consider . To give a satisfactory evaluation financial transactions, money received etc. To give a satisfactory evaluation (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer . To give a satisfactory reason ; to explain. To establish the location someone. To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ ).
Examples:
"An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received."
"We must account for the use of our opportunities."
"Idleness accounts for poverty."
"After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for."
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Account as a verb (transitive, now, _, rare):
To count. To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). To count (up), enumerate. To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
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Membership as a noun:
The state of being a member of a group or organization.
Examples:
"The terms of membership agreement were vague."
"He has memberships in clubs in three cities."
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Membership as a noun:
The body of members of an organization.
Examples:
"The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention."
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Membership as a noun (math):
The fact of being a member of a set.