ORGAN


Meaning of ORGAN in English

vt to supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.

2. organ ·noun a component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, ·etc., are organs of the steam engine.

3. organ ·noun an instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, ·etc., are organs of government.

4. organ ·noun 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.

5. organ ·noun a natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, ·etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, ·etc., are organs of plants.

6. organ ·noun a wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals;

— formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.

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