organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːɡən/
ipa: /ˈɔɹɡən/
homophone: Oregon (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡən
Forms: form: organs
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.
Senses: examples: text: bodily organs
text: vital organ
text: No matter the extraordinary progress that has been made in heart surgery over the past century, the heart remains a vulnerable organ.
ref: 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
glosses: A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
examples: text: This Organ is called a Thermometer, or Thermoscope, because the degrees of Heat and Cold are measured and marked by it.
ref: 1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy:
glosses: A device, apparatus.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: 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.
glosses: An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
glosses: Ellipsis of organ pipe cactus.
glosses: A government organization; agency; authority.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 81:
glosses: The penis.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1790, H. Compton, A particular account of the European military adventurers of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803, page 61:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An Asian form of mitrailleuse.
Synonyms: word: organ
Hyponyms: sense: of the biological sense
word: internal organ
sense: of the biological sense
word: light organ
sense: of the biological sense
word: sense organ
sense: of the biological sense
word: sex organ
sense: of the biological sense
word: storage organ
sense: of the biological sense
word: vital organ
sense: of the sense “a musical instrument”
word: barrel organ
sense: of the sense “a musical instrument”
word: church organ
sense: of the sense “a musical instrument”
word: mouth organ
sense: of the sense “a musical instrument”
word: pipe organ
sense: of the sense “a musical instrument”
word: street organ
sense: of the sense “a musical instrument”
word: string organ
sense: of the sense “a musical instrument”
word: swell organ
sense: of the sense “a musical instrument”
word: theatre organ
sense: of the sense “a musical instrument”
english: or hydraulic organ
translation: or hydraulic organ
word: water organ
sense: of the sense “a musical instrument”
word: wind organ
sense: of the sense “a medium of communication”
word: house organ
word: heart
word: lung
word: brain
word: stomach
word: kidney
word: liver
word: intestine
word: spleen
word: gland
word: eye
word: ear
word: tongue
word: antenna
Meronyms: word: tissue
word: cell
Derived terms: word: adenoid organ
word: baroque organ
word: Bidder's organ
word: bioorgan
word: blow-organ
word: Bojanus organ
word: cat organ
word: chair organ
word: chamber organ
word: chancel organ
word: choir organ
word: chord organ
word: clonewheel organ
word: electric organ
word: electronic organ
word: end-organ
word: end organ
word: gallery organ
word: genital organ
word: Hammond organ
word: hand organ
word: Hunter's organ
word: interorgan
word: intraorgan
word: intromittent organ
word: Jacobson's organ
word: Johnston's organ
word: jook organ
word: juke organ
word: juxtaoral organ
word: labyrinth organ
word: language organ
word: Lowrey organ
word: male organ
word: mouth-organ
word: multiorgan
word: olfactory organ
word: organbird
word: organbuilder
word: organbuilding
word: organ cactus
word: organ console
word: organ donation
word: organ donor
word: organelle
word: organette
word: organ grinder
word: organ gun
word: organ harmonium
word: organ harvesting
word: organification
word: organify
word: organity
word: organlegger
word: organless
word: organlike
word: organ loft
word: organmaker
word: organ of Berlese
word: organ of Chievitz
word: organ of Corti
word: organ of elimination
word: organ of Rosenmüller
word: organ of state
word: organ of Tömösváry
word: organ of Zuckerkandl
word: organoid
word: organology
word: organopathy
word: organ pipe
word: organ-pipe cactus
word: organ pleat
word: organ-point
word: organ point
word: organ scholar
word: organ screen
word: organ stop
word: organ system
word: organ tablature
word: organ transplant
word: organwide
word: paratympanic organ
word: portative organ
word: positif organ
word: positive organ
word: positiv organ
word: postantennal organ
word: pump organ
word: reed organ
word: roller organ
word: Sach's organ
word: spermaceti organ
word: Stalin's organ
word: steam organ
word: subcommissural organ
word: temporal organ
word: vomeronasal organ
Related terms: organic
organise
organize
organism
organist