organ : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a free-reed instrument in which air is drawn in through reeds by suction bellows
  

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• noun a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs
  barrel organ; hand organ; hurdy gurdy; hurdy-gurdy; grind organ.
  

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• an instrument for producing music by the action of a revolving cylinder. Barrel vault. See under Vault.

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• etc. See under Barrel, Choir, etc.

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Bo*ja"nus or"gan

Etymology

From Bojanus, the discoverer.

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1. (Zoöl.) A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.

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• (Mus.), an organ of small size, as for a chapel or for domestic use; a reed organ.

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• noun a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ
  organelle; cell organelle.
  
  • the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus

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• (Mus.), one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir.

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• noun a bodily organ that contracts
  contractor.
  

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• a contrivance by which any two or more of the ranks of keys, or keys and pedals, are connected so as to act together when the organ is played.

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• (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; generally superseded by the swell.

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• noun (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
  electronic organ; electric organ; organ.
  

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• noun (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
  electronic organ; electric organ; organ.
  

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• noun a specialized structure at the peripheral end of some motor or sensory nerve fibers
  

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• (Anat.), the structure in which a nerve fiber ends, either peripherally or centrally.

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• noun an organ containing erectile tissue
  

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• noun an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them
  excretory organ.
  

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• noun an organ that is situated on or near the surface of the body
  

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• noun external female sex organs
  female genitals; female genitalia; fanny.
  
  • in England `fanny' is vulgar slang for female genitals

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• noun the reproductive organs of a woman
  

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• (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are out.

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• noun external sex organ
  privates; genitals; private parts; genitalia; crotch.
  

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• (Mus.), the largest and loudest of the three parts of a grand organ (the others being the choir organ and the swell, and sometimes the pedal organ or foot keys), It is played upon by a separate keyboard, which has the middle position.

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• noun a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs
  barrel organ; hand organ; hurdy gurdy; hurdy-gurdy; grind organ.
  

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• noun an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue
  tastebud; taste bud.
  

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• noun (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
  electronic organ; electric organ; organ.
  

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• noun a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs
  barrel organ; hand organ; hurdy gurdy; hurdy-gurdy; grind organ.
  

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• (Mus.), a barrel organ, operated by a crank turned by hand.

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• noun a periodical published by a business firm for its employees and customers
  

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• noun a main organ that is situated inside the body
  viscus.
  

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• noun sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water
  lateral line.
  

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• noun external male sex organs
  male genitalia; male genitals; family jewels.
  

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• noun the reproductive organs of a man
  

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• noun a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
  harp; mouth harp; harmonica.
  

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• . (Mus.) (a) Pan's pipes . See Pandean. (b) An harmonicon.

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• noun the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
  nose.
  
  • he has a cold in the nose

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• (Anat.), an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part of the head and lined with epithelium innervated by the olfactory (or first cranial) nerves, and sensitive to odoriferous particles conveyed to it in the air or in water.

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• (Zoöl.), a Tasmanian crow shrike (Gymnorhina organicum). It utters discordant notes like those of a hand organ out of tune.

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• noun someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation
  

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• (Zoöl.), the drumfish.

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• . (Mil.) Same as Orgue (b).

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• (Mus.), an harmonium of large capacity and power.

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• noun a gallery occupied by a church organ
  

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• noun the hearing organ of the inner ear; contains receptors that respond to sound waves
  

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• (Anat.), a complicated structure in the cochlea of the ear, including the auditory hair cells, the rods or fibers of Corti, the membrane of Corti, etc. See Note under Ear.

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• noun the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound
  

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• noun any of the organs involved in speech production
  speech organ; organ of speech.
  

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• noun the flues and stops on a pipe organ
  pipe; pipework.
  

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• . See Pipe, n., 1.

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• (Mus.), a passage in which the tonic or dominant is sustained continuously by one part, while the other parts move.

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• noun a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality
  

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• noun an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
  transplantation; transplant.
  
  • he had a kidney transplant
  • the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent
  • a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago

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• noun a street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Tubipora.

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• (Mus.), an organ which has pedals or a range of keys moved by the feet; that portion of a full organ which is played with the feet.

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• noun 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
  organ.
  

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• noun a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus
  

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• noun a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
  harmonium; organ.
  

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• (Mus.), an organ in which the wind acts on a set of free reeds, as the harmonium, melodeon, concertina, etc.

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• noun any organ involved in sexual reproduction
  reproductive organ.
  

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• noun any organ involved in the process of respiration
  

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Ro"sen*mül`ler's or"gan (Also<

• Rosenmuller's organ
• Rosenmüller's organ

)

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1. [So named from its first describer, J. C. Rosenmüller, a German anatomist.] (Anat.) The parovarium.

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• noun any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream
  gland; secretor; secreter.
  

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• . (a) (Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and segmental ducts . (b) (Zoöl.) The tubular excretory organs, a pair of which often occur in each of several segments in annelids. They serve as renal organs, and often, also, as oviducts and sperm ducts. See Illust. under Sipunculacea.

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• noun an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
  receptor; sensory receptor.
  

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• (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sensory nerves; as the eye, ear, an end bulb or tactile corpuscle, etc.

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• noun any organ involved in sexual reproduction
  reproductive organ.
  

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• noun any of the organs involved in speech production
  speech organ; organ of speech.
  

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• noun a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard
  calliope.
  

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• noun a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs
  barrel organ; hand organ; hurdy gurdy; hurdy-gurdy; grind organ.
  

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• noun (endocrinology) organ most affected by a particular hormone
  

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• noun (radiology) organ intended to receive the therapeutic dose of a radioactive substance
  

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• noun an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them
  excretory organ.
  

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• noun a bodily organ that is essential for life
  vitals.
  

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• noun any of the organs involved in speech production
  speech organ; organ of speech.
  

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