Definitions for ORGAN
ˈɔr gənor·gan

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.7 / 3 votes

1. organnoun

   a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

2. organnoun

   a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

   "The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department"

3. electric organ, electronic organ, Hammond organ, organnoun

   (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ

4. organnoun

   a periodical that is published by a special interest group

   "the organ of the communist party"

5. organ, pipe organnoun

   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

6. harmonium, organ, reed organnoun

   a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

GCIDERate this definition:2.7 / 3 votes

1. Organnoun

   A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc. A newsletter distributed within an organization is often called its house organ.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. organnoun

   A largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.

2. organnoun

   A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.

3. organnoun

   A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed, or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.

4. organnoun

   An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.

5. organnoun

   A species of cactus (Stenocereus thurberi)

6. organnoun

   The penis.

7. Etymology: From organum, from ὄργανον, from *.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ORGANnoun

   Etymology: organe, Fr. ὄργανον.

   1. Natural instrument; as the tongue is the organ of speech, the lungs of respiration.

   When he shall hear she died upon his words,
   The ever lovely organ of her life
   Shall come apparell’d in more precious habit,
   Than when she liv’d indeed. William Shakespeare.

   For a mean and organ, by which this operative virtue might be continued, God appointed the light to be united, and gave it also motion and heat. Walter Raleigh.

   The aptness of birds is not so much in the conformity of the organs of speech, as in their attention. Francis Bacon.

   Wit and will
   Can judge and chuse, without the body’s aid;
   Tho’ on such objects they are working still,
   As thro’ the body’s organs are convey’d. Davies.

   2. An instrument of musick consisting of pipes filled with wind and of stops, touched by the hand. [ Orgue, Fr.]

   A hand of a vast extension, and a prodigious number of fingers playing upon all the organ pipes in the world, and making every one sound a particular note. John Keill.

   While in more lengthen’d notes and slow,
   The deep, majestick, solemn organs blow. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. organ

   An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform specific functions in an organism. This term can be used in the context of both plants and animals, including humans. Examples of organs include the heart, lungs, and liver in animals, and roots, stems, and leaves in plants.

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. organ

   In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with inventing the hydraulis. By around the 8th century, it had overcome early associations with gladiatorial combat and gradually assumed a prominent place in the liturgy of the Catholic Church. Subsequently it re-emerged as a secular and recital instrument.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Organ

   or′gan, n. an instrument or means by which anything is done: a part of a body fitted for carrying on a natural or vital operation: a means of communication, or of conveying information or opinions from one to another of two parties, as an ambassador, a newspaper, &c.: a musical wind instrument consisting of a collection of pipes made to sound by means of compressed air from bellows, and played upon by means of keys: a system of pipes in such an organ, having an individual keyboard, a partial organ: a musical instrument having some mechanism resembling the pipe-organ, as the barrel-organ, &c.—ns. Or′gan-build′er, one who constructs organs; Or′gan-grind′er, a fellow who plays a hand-organ by a crank; Or′gan-harmō′nium, a large harmonium used instead of a pipe-organ.—adjs. Organ′ic, -al, pertaining to an organ: organised: instrumental.—adv. Organ′ically.—n. Organ′icalness.—v.t. Organ′ify, to add organic matter to.—n. Organisabil′ity.—adj. Organis′able, that may be organised.—n. Organisā′tion, the act of organising: the state of being organised.—v.t. Or′ganīse, to supply with organs: to form several parts into an organised whole, to arrange.—ns. Or′ganīser; Or′ganism, organic structure, or a body exhibiting such: a living being, animal or vegetable.—adj. Or′ganismal.—ns. Or′ganist, one who plays on an organ; Or′gan-loft, the loft where an organ stands; Organog′eny, Organogen′esis, history of the development of living organs; Organog′raphy, a description of the organs of plants or animals; Organol′ogy, the study of structure and function; Or′gan-pipe, one of the sounding pipes of a pipe-organ (flue-pipes and reed-pipes); Or′gan-point, a note sustained through a series of chords, although only in harmony with the first and last; Or′ganry, the music of the organ; Or′gan-screen, an ornamental stone or wood screen, on which a secondary organ is sometimes placed in cathedrals; Orguinette′, a mechanical musical instrument, with reeds and exhaust-bellows.—Organic chemistry, the chemistry of substances of animal or vegetable origin, prior to 1828 supposed to be capable of formation only as products of vital processes: the chemistry of the compounds of carbon; Organic disease, a disease accompanied by changes in the structures involved; Organic remains, fossil remains of a plant or animal.—Hydraulic organ, one whose bellows is operated by a hydraulic motor. [Fr. organe—L. organum—Gr. organon.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. organ

   A type of organism with a specific function.

   Organisms exist everywhere in the body of a human and animal.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 22, 2019  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ORGAN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Organ is ranked #12696 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Organ surname appeared 2,431 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Organ.
   
   84% or 2,043 total occurrences were White.
   10% or 244 total occurrences were Black.
   2.5% or 62 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.1% or 53 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 15 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 14 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Agency
   • Body Part
   • Periodical

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'ORGAN' in Nouns Frequency: #1643

Anagrams for ORGAN »

1. argon

2. Goran

3. groan

4. nagor

5. grano

6. orang

7. rogan

8. ronga

9. angor

How to pronounce ORGAN?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say ORGAN in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ORGAN in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ORGAN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of ORGAN in a Sentence

1. Jean Botha:

   We face dire organ shortage, and this has created an imperative for us to look at alternatives to get our patients transplanted.

2. Ankit Bharat:

   A lung transplant was the only option, she was starting to develop multi-organ failure from the result of the permanent damage that she had.

3. Ingrid Skop:

   Every single law allows an exclusion for a doctor to use their reasonable medical judgment to determine when to intervene in a medical emergency, which is usually defined as a threat to the life of the mother or permanent irreversible damage to an organ or an organ system. either one should have been offered and could have been offered to Amanda.

4. Lucia Beccai:

   The data is exceptional, but now the effort is really to translate this biological data into some engineering specifications, which don't need to copy the natural organ.

5. Erica Spatz:

   The older a person is, the more likely we are to find organ injury.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ORGAN
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=ORGAN
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Organ
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=ORGAN
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=ORGAN
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=ORGAN
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html