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organ definition and meaning

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
v. t. To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.

Crossword clues for organ

- Argon treatment for kidney, perhaps
- Argon used to fix liver perhaps
- Bellows instrument
- Body part
- Body part from cyborg animal
- Church instrument
- Church keyboard
- Church musical instrument
- Eye or ear
- Groan disturbed ear, or eye?
- Groan upset ear or eye?
- Harmonica, mouth ...
- Heart or lung
- It provides music for the masses
- Keyboard instrument
- Large pipe instrument
- Liver or kidney
- Major body part
- Musical instrument with heart, for example
- Musical instrument with pipes
- Spleen or pancreas
- Stomach or brain
- Worthy thing