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Organ

noun

A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.

A government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function.

(music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ. Synonyms: electric organ, electronic organ, Hammond organ.

A periodical that is published by a special interest group.

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. Synonym: pipe organ.

A free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows. Synonyms: harmonium, reed organ.

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"Organ" Quotes from Famous Books

... Greek philosophy, 'like is only understood by like,' the Pythagoreans meant that the mathematically trained mind is the organ by which the mathematically constructed cosmos is understood. The expression may also serve as an aesthetic aphorism. The charm of the simplest lyrical song depends upon the hearer's power to put himself in the mood or situation described by the ...

— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese

... hornbook upwards, are continually urging and guiding us. Preceptor or professor, looking over his miraculous seedplot, seminary as he well calls it, or crop of young human souls, watches with attentive view one organ of his delightful little seedlings growing to be men,—the tongue. He hopes we shall all get to speak yet, if it please Heaven. "Some of you shall be book-writers, eloquent review-writers, and astonish mankind, ...

— Latter-Day Pamphlets • Thomas Carlyle

... the window and threw it open. It acted upon the shouting like the big swell of an organ, and the cries of excitement filled the room to bursting. South Carolina had clenched her hand and struck the flag in ...

— Aladdin O'Brien • Gouverneur Morris

... participating in the demonstration. Their efforts were a complete success; on the following day there was no demonstration. And apparently in the last hour the Maximalist leaders themselves realized that foreign influences were at work, for when their organ, "Pravda," appeared, its front page was covered with an appeal to their followers not ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... long to decide that point; and not even the Laureate's paean in the organ of the aristocracy and upper middle class could evoke any outburst of feeling. There was plenty of admiration for the pluck and boldness, for the careless indifference with which the raiders risked their lives; for the romantic side of the dash from Pitsani ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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