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UK
/ˈɔːɡən/
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[ US /ˈɔɹɡən/ ]
[ US /ˈɔɹɡən/ ]
NOUN
- a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
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a periodical that is published by a special interest group
the organ of the communist party - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
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a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function
The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department - 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
- (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
How To Use organ In A Sentence
- Prior to the 19th century, the region's social structure - outside of a few major cities, including Baghdad - was organized primarily around relatively isolated tribal confederations.
- The pain in his side was crushing, as if there was a steel hand in there relentlessly closing on an organ. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
- A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.
- Most organic farmers try to supply their nitrogen needs with legumes in the crop rotation or with manures and composts.
- I must give one instance; he throws doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of cirripedes have been converted into branchiae, because I have not found them to be branchiae; whereas he himself admits, before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, that their organs are branchiae. Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
- The nerves are the terminal branches of the right and left vagi, the former being distributed upon the back, and the latter upon the front part of the organ. XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Stomach
- Businesses and service organizations were losing employees and customers weekly, daily, and eventually hourly.
- Petrifications, where no organic material remains, are usually prepared as thin sections or polished and studied under reflected light.
- Is that something you really want to see, that kind of ossified thinking in a bureaucratic organization like Homeland Security? CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2005
- This steak house has organically farmed beef and locally raised bison. Times, Sunday Times
