Crossword-Solution: ORGAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Organ | n. | 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. |
| Organ | n. | 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. |
| Organ | n. | 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. |
| Organ | n. | 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. |
| Organ | n. | 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. |
| Organ | v. t. | To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ORGAN | anagram | AGRON, ARGON, GORAN, GRANO, GROAN, NAGOR, ORANG, RAGON, RANGO, ROGAN |
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Sentences with ORGAN (5)
The choir had never sung so well and Raoul Marcel, in the “Gloria,” drew even the bishop’s eyes to the organ loft.
Whilst she stood and read and meditated the tones of the organ began again in the church, and she went with the same light step round to the porch and listened.
This vocal organ was in itself a rich endowment, insomuch that a listener, comprehending nothing of the language in which the preacher spoke, might still have been swayed to and fro by the mere tone and cadence.
The Martians had what appears to have been an auditory organ, a single round drum at the back of the head-body, and eyes with a visual range not very different from ours except that, according to Philips, blue and violet were as black to them.
Once Thor was sick, and once the organist in her father’s church was away and Thea had to play the organ for the three Sunday services.
Quotes with ORGAN (3)
You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.
I have stitched life into me like a rare organ
But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word "reason" already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume said that causal connexion was not merely unprovable, but unthinkable; and, in shallower waters still, one cannot assign a true reason why water should flow down hill, or sugar tas…
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 452 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).