organ
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- Canada//ˈoɹɡən//
- Australia//ˈoːɡən//
The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
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The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
bodily organs
vital organ
No matter the extraordinary progress that has been made in heart surgery over the past century, the heart remains a vulnerable organ.
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A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
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obsoletoA device, apparatus.
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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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.
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An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
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A government organization; agency; authority.
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gergoThe penis.
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.
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storicoAn Asian form of mitrailleuse.
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.
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Variante di organ pipe cactusEllipsis of organ pipe cactus.
Etimologia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-der. Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon)bor. Latin organumder. Old French organebor. Middle English organe English organ From Middle English organe, from Old French organe and Old English organ, both 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.
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obsoletoTo supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
[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 […]
Forme
- plurale
- organs
- passato
- organed
- participio passato
- organed
- participio presente
- organing
- 3ª persona singolare
- organs
organ · The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
Organ · A surname.organic · Pertaining to or derived from living organisms.organisation · Non-Oxford British English and Australian standard spelling…