Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ORGAN

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Definitions of ORGAN

1. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
2. The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
3. A government organization; agency; authority.
4. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
5. (musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
6. Short for organ pipe cactus.
7. (slang) The penis.
8. (historical, military) An Asian form of mitrailleuse.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
10. A surname.
11. A CDP in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, US.

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Examples of Using ORGAN in a Sentence

• He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation.
• The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System is a drug classification system that classifies the active ingredients of drugs according to the organ or system on which they act and their therapeutic, pharmacological and chemical properties.
• The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.
• Swim bladder, in bony fishes, an internal organ that helps to control buoyancy (homologous to lungs).
• The cervix (: cervices) or cervix uteri is a dynamic fibromuscular sexual organ of the female reproductive system that connects the vagina with the uterine cavity.
• Conditions that result in a weak immune system include HIV/AIDS, the medications used after organ transplantation, diabetes, and the use of corticosteroids.
• In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws and/or nails.
• The numerals and symbols (often accidentals) indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones that a musician playing piano, harpsichord, organ, or lute (or other instruments capable of playing chords) should play in relation to the bass note.
• The organ was originally marketed by the Hammond Organ Company to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, or instead of a piano.
• His instrumental music includes concertos, suites, sonatas, fugues, and other works for organ, harpsichord, lute, violin, viola da gamba, cello, flute, chamber ensemble, and orchestra.
• His compositions include four symphonies, four concertos, a Requiem, and many songs, amongst other music for symphony orchestra, piano, organ, voices, and chamber ensembles.
• Pressing a key on the keyboard makes the instrument produce sounds—either by mechanically striking a string or tine (acoustic and electric piano, clavichord), plucking a string (harpsichord), causing air to flow through a pipe organ, striking a bell (carillon), or activating an electronic circuit (synthesizer, digital piano, electronic keyboard).
• In China, politics functions within a communist state framework based on the system of people's congress under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with the National People's Congress (NPC) functioning as the highest organ of state power and only branch of government per the principle of unified power.
• The President of the Philippines is the Commander-in-Chief of the AFP and forms military policy with the Department of National Defense, an executive department acting as the principal organ by which military policy is carried out, while the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines serves as the overall commander and the highest-ranking officer in the AFP.
• Most pianists can, to an extent, easily play other keyboard instruments such as the synthesizer, harpsichord, celesta, and the organ.
• He endorsed and promoted study of Moorish and Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics and astronomy, reintroducing to Western Christendom the abacus, armillary sphere, and water organ, which had been lost to Latin Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
• Registration (organ), the art of combining the different sounds of a pipe organ to produce the desired sound.
• During the existence of the Polish People's Republic, the Sejm, then a unicameral parliament, was the supreme organ of state power in the country.
• By the Soviet constitutions of 1936 and 1977, the Supreme Soviet was defined as the highest organ of state power in the Soviet Union and was imbued with great lawmaking powers.
• It consisted of Canadians Rick Danko (bass, guitar, vocals, fiddle), Garth Hudson (organ, keyboards, accordion, saxophone), Richard Manuel (piano, drums, vocals), Robbie Robertson (guitar, vocals, piano, percussion), and American Levon Helm (drums, vocals, mandolin, guitar, bass).
• The uterus is a hormone-responsive sex organ that contains glands in its lining that secrete uterine milk for embryonic nourishment.
• The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; , AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.
• In mammals and other animals, the vagina (: vaginas or vaginae) is the elastic, muscular reproductive organ of the female genital tract.
• The anal fin of the male fish has evolved into a gonopodium, a stick-shaped organ used for reproduction.
• In humans, the fingers are flexibly articulated and opposable, serving as an important organ of tactile sensation and fine movements, which are crucial to the dexterity of the hands and the ability to grasp and manipulate objects.

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