Dictionary Definition
organ
Noun
1 a fully differentiated structural and
functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some
particular function
2 a government agency or instrument devoted to
the performance of some specific function; "The Census Bureau is an
organ of the Commerce Department"
3 (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe
organ [syn: electric
organ, electronic
organ, Hammond
organ]
4 a periodical that is published by a special
interest group; "the organ of the communist party"
5 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 [syn: pipe
organ]
6 a free-reed instrument in which air is forced
through the reeds by bellows [syn: harmonium, reed
organ]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Organ
English
Etymology
From organum < ὄργανον.Pronunciation
- 'ɔɹ.gɛn
-
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)ɡən
Noun
- A largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
- A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed.
- An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
Derived terms
Translations
part of an organism
- Czech: orgán
- Danish: organ
- Dutch: orgaan
- Finnish: elin
- French: organe
- German: Organ
- Hebrew: איבר
- Hungarian: szerv
- Icelandic: líffæri
- Ido: organo
- Italian: organo
- Japanese: (kikan)
- Latvian: orgāns
- Lithuanian: organas
- Norwegian: organ
- Persian: (andām)
- Polish: narząd , organ
- Portuguese: órgão
- Romanian: organ
- Russian: орган (órgan)
- Slovene: organ
- Swedish: organ
- Turkish: organ
musical instrument
- Afrikaans: orrel
- Croatian: orgulje
- Czech: varhany p
- Danish: orgel
- Dutch: orgel
- Esperanto: orgeno
- Finnish: urut p
- French: orgue
- German: Orgel
- Hebrew: אורגן , עוגב
- Hungarian: orgona
- Icelandic: orgel
- Ido: orgeno
- Indonesian: organ
- Italian: organo
- Japanese: オルガン (orugan)
- Latvian: ērģeles f|p
- Luxembourgish: Uergel
- Norwegian: orgel
- Persian: (arghanun)
- Polish: organy p
- Portuguese: órgão
- Romanian: orgă
- Russian: орган (orgán)
- Slovene: orgle f|p
- Spanish: órgano
- Swedish: orgel
- Turkish: org
- Welsh: organ
- West Frisian: oargel
magazine, newsletter, or similar publication
- ttbc Latin: organus
- ttbc Lithuanian: vargonai
Romanian
Noun
organExtensive Definition
Organ may refer to:
- Organ (anatomy), a group of tissues which perform some function
- Organ (music), a family of keyboard instruments which is usually played with both the hands and the feet
- The Organ, an indie rock band
- Organ, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune in the French département of Hautes-Pyrénées
- Organ pipe cactus, the common name for Stenocereus thurberi
- Organ pipe coral, a common coral native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans
organ in Welsh: Organ
organ in German: Organ
organ in Modern Greek (1453-): Όργανο
organ in Spanish: Órgano
organ in Galician: Órgano (homónimos)
organ in Interlingua (International Auxiliary
Language Association): Organo (disambiguation)
organ in Italian: Organo
organ in Hebrew: איבר (פירושונים)
organ in Polish: Organ
organ in Portuguese: Órgão
organ in Quechua: Órgano
organ in Simple English: Organ
organ in Slovak: Orgán
organ in Swedish: Orgel
organ in Ukrainian: Орган
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Charlie McCarthy, Hammond organ, affiliate, agency, agent, ancilla, annual, appendage, appliance, arm, baroque organ, bimonthly, biweekly, bough, branch, branch office, calliope, calliophone, channel, chapter, choralcelo, component, contrivance, creature, daily, daybook, device, diary, division, dummy, dupe, electric organ,
electro-pneumatic organ, element, ephemeris, fortnightly, forum, gazette, go-between, hand, handmaid, handmaiden, harmonium, hebdomadal, hydraulic organ,
imp, implement, instrument, instrumentality,
instrumentation,
interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, joint, journal, leg, lever, limb, link, lobe, lobule, local, lodge, magazine, mean, mechanism, mediator, medium, melodeon, melodica, member, midwife, minion, ministry, monthly, mouthpiece, newsletter, newsmagazine, newspaper, offshoot, orchestrelle, organophone, paper, part, pawn, periodical, pictorial, pinion, pipe organ, plaything, post, process, publication, puppet, quarterly, ramification, reed organ,
review, runner, scion, seraphine, serial, servant, slave, slick magazine, spray, sprig, spur, steam organ, stooge, structure, switch, symphonion, tail, tendril, tool, toy, tracker-action organ, trade
magazine, tubular-pneumatic organ, twig, unit, vehicle, vocalion, voice, weekly, wing, yearbook