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/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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Businesses and service organizations were losing employees and customers weekly, daily, and eventually hourly.
- This steak house has organically farmed beef and locally raised bison. Times, Sunday Times
- It is a system that is alive, whether or not it possesses all the attributes needed for an organism.
- Chartists at once organized resistance to what they called the usurpation and, after a long civil war, were successful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- Most organic farmers try to supply their nitrogen needs with legumes in the crop rotation or with manures and composts.
- Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these.
- Under this arrangement, the men of each village were organized into ‘tithings ' and expected to answer for each other's good behaviour.