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Organ
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- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. countable, uncountable
- 1 The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
"bodily organs"
- 2 (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ wordnet
- 3 A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions. broadly
- 4 a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows wordnet
- 5 A device, apparatus. obsolete
"This Organ is called a Thermometer, or Thermoscope, because the degrees of Heat and Cold are measured and marked by it."
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- 6 wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard wordnet
- 7 A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
"He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts."
- 8 a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function wordnet
- 9 An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
- 10 a periodical that is published by a special interest group wordnet
- 11 Ellipsis of organ pipe cactus. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 12 a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function wordnet
- 13 A government organization; agency; authority.
- 14 The penis. slang
"If the Snake has an unmistakeable resemblance to the male organ in its active state, the foliage of the tree or bush is equally remindful of the female."
- 15 An Asian form of mitrailleuse. historical
"Lieutenant Roberts was also severely wounded by a missile, or weapon called an Organ, which is composed of about thirty-six gun barrels so joined as to fire at once."
- 1 To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs. obsolete, transitive
"[W]hen he ſays, he has compaſſion on’em, they ſhould ask, where then are his Bowels! […] Alaſs! fond Creature, thou art Elemented and Organ’d for other Apprehenſions […]"
Etymology
From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.
From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.
From organ, a metonymic occupational surname for a player of a musical instrument.
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