organize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːɡənaɪz/
ipa: /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/
Forms: form: organizes
form: organizing
form: organized
form: organized
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
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form: organizest
form: organized
form: organizedst
form: organizes
form: organizeth
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form: organise
Etymology: From Middle English organizen, organysen, partly from Middle French organiser and partly from its etymon, Medieval Latin organizō, from Latin organum (“organ”). By surface analysis, organ + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Multiple bits moving in macroprocess join triplet macrounits which logically organize information networks encoding units in structures enclosing triplet code.
ref: 2015, Vladimir S. Lerner, “The impulse observations of random process generate information binding reversible micro and irreversible macro processes in Observer: regularities, limitations, and conditions of self-creation”, in arXiv:
synonyms: marshal
glosses: To arrange in working order.
examples: text: This original and supreme will organizes the government.
ref: 1803, William Cranch, Marbury v. Madison:
text: With Arthur it was clearly the Falklands factor writ large. Actions such as organizing and building the Wansdyke or Cadbury 11 (the refortification) would have strengthened the authority and extended the power of whichever king was the organizer.
ref: 2003, Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend:
text: Ms. Crabapple did a lot of posing in bikinis, and less, to pay her way through F.I.T.; in addition to showing in fine art galleries and drawing comics, she organizes events she calls Dr. Sketchy’s, a life drawing class that’s also a burlesque show with music, costumes and seminudity.
ref: 2008 April 18, Susan Dominus, “Young, Hip and Wild About Comic Books”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
examples: text: an organized being
text: organized matter
text: These nobler faculties in the mind of man, […] matter organized could never produce.
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life
raw_tags: used in the past participle
examples: text: to organize an anthem
text: Formerly , those Catholic priests who sung in parts : so to sing , was to organize
ref: 1828, Thomas Busby, A Complete Dictionary of Music:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To sing in parts.
examples: text: the workers decided to organize; their next task was to organize the workers at the steel mill
glosses: To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize.
Synonyms: word: adapt
word: adjust
word: apportion
word: arrange
word: assort
word: bunch
word: categorize
word: classify
word: clean
word: codify
word: collocate
word: compile
word: coordinate
word: disambiguate
word: disembroil
word: disentangle
word: fashion
word: fit
word: fix
word: form
word: formulate
word: group
word: harmonize
word: label
word: marshal
word: methodize
word: order
word: place
word: rank
word: regulate
word: sanitize
word: sort
word: standardize
word: systematize
word: tabulate
word: tailor
word: tidy
Derived terms: deorganize
disorganize
inorganize
merorganize
misorganize
organizable
organization
organized
organizer
outorganize
overorganize
preorganize
re-organize
reorganize
self-organize
self-organizing
Related terms: word: construct
word: create