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Definition: Organ |
OrganNoun1. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function. 2. A government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function; "The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department". 3. (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ. 4. A periodical that is published by a special interest group; "the organ of the communist party". 5. 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. 6. A free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "organ" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Aerospace | A portion or subassembly of a computer which constitutes the means of accomplishing some inclusive operation or function (e.g., arithmetic organ). (references) |
Bible | Organ some kind of wind instrument, probably a kind of Pan's pipes (Gen. 4:21; Job 21:12; Ps. 150:4), which consisted of seven or eight reeds of unequal length. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Biology & Biotechnology | A differentiated structure of cells or tissues, which performs some specific function(s). Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To hear the pealing forth of an organ in grand anthems, signifies lasting friendships and well-grounded fortune. To see an organ in a church, denotes despairing separation of families, and death, perhaps, for some of them. If you dream of rendering harmonious music on an organ, you will be fortunate in the way to worldly comfort, and much social distinction will be given you. To hear doleful singing and organ accompaniment, denotes you are nearing a wearisome task, and probable loss of friends or position. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Fine Arts | A musical instrument consisting of pipes that sound notes when air is forced through them, played by keys pressed with the fingers and pedals pressed with the feet. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A series of closely spaced props placed at the borders of the chamber at the coal face. Such an arrangement protects the future, adjoining chamberfrom caving. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | ORGAN. A pipe. Will you cock your organ? will you smoke your pipe?. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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The Hammond organ is an electric organ which was designed and built by Laurens Hammond in April 1935. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a low-cost alternative to the pipe organ, it came to be used for jazz, and to a lesser extent rock music and gospel music.
In imitation of a pipe organ, with its banks of pipes in multiple registers, the Hammond Organ used additive synthesis of waveforms from harmonic series to generate its sounds. As in Thadeus Cahill's earlier Telharmonium, the individual waveforms were made by mechanical "tonewheels" which rotated beneath electromagnetic pickups.
Because the waveforms are produced by mechanical tonewheels rather than electronic oscillators, original Hammond organs are considered to be electric rather than electronic organs.
A defining feature of the Hammond organ was the use of "drawbars" to mix the component waveforms in varying ratios. Other features added to Hammond organs included an electromechanical vibrato. The distinctive "key click" that was originally a design flaw rapidly became part of the "Hammond sound", which modern imitations of the Hammond organ faithfully reproduce. Accurate imitation of the Hammond sound with electronics is difficult, because the phase relationship between tonewheels is difficult to replicate.
Speakers made by Leslie were widely used with the Hammond organs, though at first, Leslie was a competing company that Hammond sought to drive out of business. The Leslie speakers had a rotating component that produced a vibrato effect.
The model B-3 was, and still is, the most sought-after model, though the C-3 differs only in cosmetics. Hammond organs do not have a full AGO pedalboard, something that was done originally for cost and size reasons.
Notable Hammond organ players:
- Bill Doggett
- Keith Emerson
- Ken Hensley
- Richard "Groove" Holmes
- Ethel Smith
- Jimmy Smith
- Jon Lord
- Rick Wakeman
- Dan Wall
- Steve Winwood
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An organ is:
- A distinct region of cells within a multicelluar organism, see organ (anatomy)
- A musical instrument, see organ (music)
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An organ is a distinct set of cells within a multicellular organism that perform a distinct function. Organs include the heart, lungs, brain, eye, stomach, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, liver, intestines, uterus, bladder etc. The skin is the largest organ of the human body. The liver is the largest internal organ of the human body.All organs are made of tissues
Analogous structures exist on the sub-cellular level and are known as organelles.
See also : transplant, artificial organ
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The organ is a type of keyboard musical instrument, distinctive because the sound is not produced by a percussion action, as on a piano or celesta, or by means of vibrating strings, as on the harpsichord.
The pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal Instead, organs produce sound by means of flowing air. Organs date back to medieval times, when they originated as portable instruments used for accompaniment in choral music. As the instruments became larger, they were installed permanently in a fashion similar to the church organs of today.
The sound-producing elements in organs are generally reeds and flutelike pipes. The flutelike pipes, which work using vibrating columns of air, are to be found in organs of all sizes. Reeds --thin strips of metal fastened at one end with the rest allowed to vibrate freely-- are only used commonly on instruments from a certain size.
Other instruments which are played from a reservoir of gas and have separate tone-producing mechanisms for each pitch include:
Other wind instruments that have no reservoir of gas but use a separate tone-producing mechanism for each pitch
- the accordion and concertina, in which the bellows is operated by the squeezing action of the instrumentalist;
- the melodeon, a reed instrument with an air reservior and a foot operated bellows, popular in the USA in the mid 19th century;
- the parlor organ, a reed instrument usually with many stops and two foot-operated bellows which the instrumentalist operates alternately;
- the steam calliope, being essentially a pipe organ operated on steam rather than air;
- the band organ, essentially a pipe organ, but instead of a keyboard, mechanical means are used to play a prepared song.
- various sorts of novelty instruments operating on the same principles.
Other wind instruments that are played from a reservoir of gas but do not use a separate tone-producing mechanism for each pitch
- the harmonica, where the musician effectively blows directly onto the reeds;
- the pan-pipes
Organs were the first keyboard instruments, even though technically they belong to the most complex products of human craftmanship one can possibly imagine.
- bagpipes
The pipe organ is a common kind of organ, with churches often housing such an instrument - when the word "organ" is used on its own in a classical music context, the pipe organ is most often meant. It is this instrument that is sometimes called the "king of instruments" in that, when played by a capable perfomer, richer and more complex music can be produced than with any other single instrument.
The organ's typical, stable and broad sound is often associated with eternity and divinity, reason why the most beautiful instruments are to be found in churches, although many major concert halls around the world boast organs too. Saint-Saens' popular Organ Symphony is a good example of how the sound of a large organ can be effectively combined with that of a symphony orchestra.
The versatility of the organ is attributable to the builders' ability to attach any number of instruments, or 'voices', to the keyboards which can be selected individually or in multiples by the operator. A good organist can produce a complex symphony of sounds simply by selecting which voices are used by which keyboard.
Voices are selected by 'stops'. The colloquial phrase "to pull out all the stops" originates from the simultaneous use of the multiple voices of an organ to produce a rich and complex sound. Much air is used to power an organ when all the stops are pulled out, and in days when there were no electric motors, the profligate use of air required much labor, and was used only for special occasions.
The word organ, which has nothing to do with anatomical organs, originates from the latin word "organum", the earliest predecessor of the instrument used in ancient Roman circus games and similar to what we now know as "portative".
There are also various electrically operated and electronic organs, such as the Hammond Organ. While the Hammond was of imitative intent, it has developed something of a cult following and is at its best when used to produce a sound of its own rather than an attempt at a pipe-organ-like sound. The Hammond B3 model is an important instrument in jazz, and in particular was the central instrument in soul jazz. Electric organs also figure prominently in rock and gospel.
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A pipe organ is a keyboard instrument that makes sound by forcing air through large wood or metal pipes. Pipe organs are commonly found in churches: there is a large repertoire of religious music for the pipe organ. The Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach wrote extensively for the pipe organ and other keyboard instruments.
The pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal Pipe organs are complex musical instruments, with hundreds or thousands of pipes of varying size and pitch. Controls on the console of the organ called stops select which pipes are used; different combinations of stops can change the timbre of the instrument considerably. Many pipe organs are mammoth instruments that are part of the church building itself.
Pipes may be classified in a number of different ways: by the material they are made of (wood or metal), by the mechanism of sound production (flue pipes vs. reed pipes), and by the construction of the ends (open or closed). Each variation results in a different timbre.
An organ pipe produces only one pitch, so there must be at least one pipe for each controlling key or pedal. Thus, a keyboard with 61 notes would require 61 pipes. A complete set of pipes producing different pitches of one timbre is called a rank. The pitch produced is a function of the length of the pipe, and many timbres are associated with ranks pitched some multiple of octaves apart: thus an organ stop may have similar names with the addition of a length in feet indicating the pitch: a 16' stop produces pitches an octave below that of an 8' stop, an 8' stop produces pitches an octave below that of an 4' stop, and a 4' stop produces pitches an octave below that of an 2' stop.
Some timbres require more than one pipe per key. This is often reflected in the name given to the stop as a Roman numeral: thus a stop called "Cornet V" on a 61 note manual (this is the usual number on U.S. organs) would have 5 x 61 = 305 pipes.
The pipe organ has at least one keyboard, with 2-5 keyboards being the most common configuration. Each keyboard is called a manual, so that an organ with four keyboards is said to have four manuals. Most pipe organs also have a set of keys played by the feet called "pedals". The manuals, pedals and stop controls are gathered together in a functional piece of furniture called a "console".
From the time of the organ's invention by the ancient Greeks until the 19th century, pipes were originally located within a cabinet or "case", with the console and related mechanism built in. The valves under the pipes were connected by mechanical linkages to the keys, so that the organist's fingers actually provided the energy to open the valves. This system is known as "mechanical (or "tracker") key action",
With the invention of electrical and pneumatic control systems in the late 19th century, organ pipes were often located remotely from the console in special rooms called chambers. In the 1920s and '30s, there was a revival of interest in historic organs, and organ builders once again began building organs with mechanical action. Today, both electric action and mechanical action pipe organs are built.
The largest pipe organ ever built is the Main Auditorium Organ in Atlantic City Convention Hall.
Electronic organs such as the Hammond Organ were originally developed as imitations of pipe organs.
Notable organ builders:
- François-Henri Clicquot (France)
- Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (France)
- Arp Schnitger (Germany)
- Gottfried Silbermann (Germany)
- Henry "Father" Willis (England)
- Ernest M. Skinner (USA)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pipe organ."
Synonyms: OrganSynonyms: electric organ (n), electronic organ (n), harmonium (n), pipe organ (n), reed organ (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instrument | Instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe, gin, mill; air engine, caloric engine, heat engine. |
Intellect | Brain, organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium, sensory; head, headpiece; pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, |
Voice | Phrase: "how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman"; "the organ of the soul"; "thy voice is a celestial melody". |
Noun: voice; vocality; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice; (loud); musical voice; intonation; tone of voice; (sound). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Organ |
| English words defined with "organ": Bojanus organ ♦ Cabinet organ, cell organ, contractile organ, Coupler of an organ ♦ Echo organ, electric organ, electronic organ, erectile organ, excretory organ, external organ ♦ Full organ ♦ genital organ, gustatory organ ♦ Hammond organ, hand organ ♦ internal organ ♦ Olfactory organ, Organ bird, organ donor, organ loft, organ of Corti, organ pipe, organ stop, organ transplant ♦ Pedal organ ♦ reed organ, reproductive organ, respiratory organ ♦ sense organ, sex organ ♦ taret organ, target organ ♦ urinary organ ♦ vital organ. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "organ": choir organ ♦ great organ ♦ Organ Culture, organ dose, organ transplant coordinator, Organ Transplantation ♦ portative organ ♦ spiral organ ♦ Vomeronasal Organ. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "organ": Sub-bass. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Organ" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (apparatus, body, edition, organ, organism), Danish (organ), German (agent, body, branch, division, instrument, organ), Romanian (agency, authority, body, mouthpiece, organ), Scottish (organ), Serbo-Croatian (organ), Swedish (authority, newspaper, organ, organs, parts, tract), Turkish (agency, member, organ), Turkmen (organ), Welsh (organ). |
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Screenplays | Why don't you get an organ grinder, I could do a little dance (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) We know less about how the brain works than any other organ in the body (The Dead Zone; writing credit: Aleksandar Djordjevic) For the heart is an organ of fire (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella) The brain is a brittle organ, Jane (Lady Jane; writing credit: Chris Bryant; David Edgar) I think that it is not really a tumornot an uncontrolled, undirected little bubbling pot of fleshbut that it is in fact a new organ a new part of the brain (Videodrome; writing credit: David Cronenberg) | |
Clever | I am not an organ donor, but I once gave an old piano to the Salvation Army. (references; author: unknown) Your brain is that bodily organ which starts working the moment you awake and does not stop until you get into the office. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Organ Juice® (1973) Vitaphone Variety: An Organ Novelty (1939) Organ Grinder's Swing (1937) The Organ Grinder (1933) | |
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 | A 9 year-old white child is shown here in a home setting playing the organ with her brother with her mother is looking on. The girl is a long-term survivor of massive abdominal surgery at age 3 for neuroblastoma. She is presently disease-free. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Bar graph showing number of organ transplants, United States, 1982-1994. Credit: CDC. |
 | Salmonella septicemia has been associated with subsequent infection of virtually every organ system, and the nervous system is no exception. Here we see an acute inflammatory encephalitis due to S. typhi bacteria. Credit: CDC. |  | This is the trail head to the Dripping Springs trail located in the Organ Mounains, near Las Cruces, NM. Credit: Unknown. |
 | A female mountain lion was treed by dogs in the Organ Mountains of southern NM. The next year this lion raised 2 kittens. Credit: Jack Barnitz. |  | Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Credit: NPS. |
 | Before you do crack, do this. : Organ Donor Authorization. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Symbolical Head : In Which Each Organ Is Illustrated. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The organ kicked out. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | To all inquiries Lola replied, Mr. Simpkins is taking me to an organ recital, and won a scream of mirth. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Light Organ" by Craig Young Commentary: "Pic from Art Galleries Glasgow. Great light in the main hall." | "Organ pipes" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "Religious music." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | A mid-sized pipe organ playing in a minor key area. | | Circus organ song. |
| Church organ music. | | Organ playing "home on the range". |
| Church organ starting up. | | Organ music with heavy breathing. |
| Haunted organ riff. | | Evil man cackling with organ background music. |
| Resonating organ note. | | Eerie chord played by an organ. |
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Emo Philips | I went into Gus's artificial organ and taco stand. I said "Give me a bladder por favor." |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The human voice is the organ of the soul. |
Sir George Jessel | The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Lavage - To wash out a body organ. (references) | |
By blood transfusion or organ transplant. (references) | ||
Through blood transfusion or by organ transplant. (references) | ||
Business | According to the Constitution, the NPC is the highest organ of state power. (references) | |
Many of the doctors in the private sector are well trained and can provide advanced medical treatment, including open-heart surgery and organ transplants. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Hong Kong | The Council in several cases requested explanations or corrections from the offending media organ and in at least one case claimed responsibility for a published apology by a nonmember. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Private persons and journalist collectives may not establish newspapers unless they meet the media law's standards for establishment of a "mass media organ," including founders acceptable to the Government. (references) | |
Gambia | The journalists claimed that the newspaper was being used as a political organ of the APRC, and they maintained that they wanted to disassociate themselves from what they saw as a propaganda outfit to promote the political interest of one group at the expense of others. (references) | |
Economic History | Cuba (09/01) | The Ministry of Interior is the principal organ of state security and control. (references) |
China | Under the Chinese constitution, the NPC is the highest organ of state power in China. (references) | |
Estonia | The Riigikogu, a unicameral legislative body, is the highest organ of state authority. (references) | |
Human Rights | Gambia | The IHRD principally focuses on the operations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, an organ of the African Union based in Banjul. (references) |
China | There is no national law governing organ donations, but a Ministry of Health directive explicitly states that buying and selling human organs and tissues is not allowed. (references) | |
China | There are no reliable statistics on how many organ transplants occur each year using organs from executed prisoners, but, according to press reports, hundreds of persons from foreign countries, particularly Asian countries, who are unable to obtain transplants at home travel to the country each year for organ transplants. (references) | |
Political Rights | Central African Republic | In August 1999, President Patasse promulgated a decree that subordinated CEMI to the state Organ of Control (OCASPA), a state organization that he had created by decree in May 1999 to oversee the election process. (references) |
Worker Rights | Romania | Exploitation includes slavery, forced labor, prostitution, performance in pornographic films, organ theft, or other conditions that violate human rights. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | IN':ARDS:, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an in'ard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, Dr. Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our important part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett P. Servis holds that man's soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that no tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both. |
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| "Organ" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.33% of the time. "Organ" is used about 1,339 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.33% | 1,330 | 5,974 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.52% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.15% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,339 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "organ" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Organ | Last name | 1,000 | 12,167 |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Allen Organ Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "organ": a powerful organ ♦ american organ ♦ an abortive organ ♦ auditory organ ♦ barrel organ ♦ Bojanus organ ♦ Cabinet organ ♦ cell organ ♦ Choir organ ♦ church organ ♦ contractile organ ♦ Coupler of an organ ♦ Echo organ ♦ electric organ ♦ electronic organ ♦ Enamel Organ ♦ End organ ♦ erectile organ ♦ excretory organ ♦ external organ ♦ female genital organ ♦ female internal reproductive organ ♦ Fetal Organ Maturity ♦ Full organ ♦ genital organ ♦ government organ ♦ great organ ♦ grind organ ♦ gustatory organ ♦ Hammond organ ♦ hand organ ♦ house organ ♦ internal organ ♦ lateral line organ ♦ lymphoid organ ♦ male genital organ ♦ male internal reproductive organ ♦ male organ ♦ Manual Organ Stimulation Therapy ♦ mouth organ ♦ Multiple Organ Failure ♦ olfactory organ ♦ organ bank ♦ organ bird ♦ Organ Culture ♦ organ donor ♦ organ dose ♦ organ dysfunction ♦ organ fish ♦ organ grinder ♦ organ gun ♦ organ harmonium ♦ organ loft ♦ ORGAN MOUNTAIN CRAPE ♦ organ of balance ♦ Organ of Corti ♦ Organ of Gorti ♦ organ of hearing ♦ organ of sight ♦ organ of speech ♦ organ of thought ♦ organ pipe ♦ organ point ♦ Organ Preservation ♦ Organ Preservation Solutions ♦ Organ Procurement ♦ Organ Specificity ♦ organ stop ♦ organ swell ♦ organ transplant ♦ Organ Transplantation ♦ pedal organ ♦ piano organ ♦ pianoforte organ ♦ pipe organ ♦ plant organ ♦ portative organ ♦ primary lymphoid organ ♦ protection of persons not able to consent to organ removal ♦ reed organ ♦ reproductive organ ♦ respiratory organ ♦ Rosenmuller's organ ♦ secondary lymphoid organ ♦ secretory organ ♦ sense organ ♦ sex organ ♦ sexual organ ♦ speech organ ♦ spiral organ ♦ steam organ ♦ street organ ♦ Subcommissural Organ ♦ Subfornical Organ ♦ swell organ ♦ tactile organ ♦ taret organ ♦ target organ ♦ urinary organ ♦ vital organ ♦ vocal organ. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "organ": organ-blower, organ-builder, organ-builders, organ-building, organ-donors, organ-driven, organ-grinder, organ-ic, organ-ization, organ-men, organ-pipe, Organ-pipe coral, organ-pipes, organ-player, organ-playing, organ-pleasures, organ-shutters, organ-specific, organ-speech, organ-stops, organ-toned, organ-transplant, organ-works, organ-writing. | |
Ending with "organ": barrel-organ, mouth-organ. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
organ donation | 393 | acoustic organ physics pipe | 24 |
organ | 378 | organ thomas | 24 |
hammond organ | 188 | allen organ | 24 |
organ transplant | 177 | color organ | 24 |
pipe organ | 164 | female sex organ | 23 |
organ donor | 135 | organ historical society | 22 |
organ music | 90 | male organ | 22 |
body human largest organ | 41 | organ lesson | 20 |
organ trail | 39 | organ chord | 20 |
organ system | 38 | organ cloning | 20 |
builder organ pipe | 37 | court doctor donation hagan liver michael organ rogers shemika transplant trial | 19 |
pump organ | 36 | game organ trail | 19 |
united network for organ sharing | 32 | yamaha organ | 19 |
wurlitzer organ | 32 | female reproductive organ | 19 |
organ grinder | 32 | reed organ | 19 |
organ donors | 32 | organ music for wedding | 18 |
church organ trader | 30 | male organ reproductive | 18 |
theater organ | 29 | mouth organ | 18 |
organ transplantation | 28 | rodgers organ | 18 |
organ sheet music | 28 | card donor organ | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "organ"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | organ (apparatus, body, edition, organism), shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, run over, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize), ent. (various references) | |
Arabic | لسان حال (mouthpiece), عضوي (organic), عضو (member), جريدة (daily, diary, newspaper, paper, rag), الناطق الرسمي (press secretary), الأرغن آلة موسيقية, أرغن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вестник (journal, newspaper, paper, print, sheet), орган (body, member, part, pipe organ), печатно издание. (various references) | |
Chinese | 器官 (apparatus). (various references) | |
Czech | orgán (body, member, part), varhany, ústrojí (apparatus). (various references) | |
Danish | orgel (pipe organ), organ (corporate body, corporation, organon, organum, public-law body). (various references) | |
Dutch | orgaan (functional unit, institution, organon, organum), orgel (pipe organ). (various references) | |
Esperanto | orgeno, organo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | pípuurga, málgagn. (various references) | |
Farsi | وسیله (Appliance, Handle, Inducement, Instrument, Instrumental, Makeshift, Medium, Recourse, Resource), عضو (Limb, Member, Part), اندام (Member, Shape), الت (Apparatus, Appliance, Engine, Implement, Instrument, Instrumental, Tool), ارگ , ارغنون . (various references) | |
Finnish | urut, elin (body). (various references) | |
French | orgue (pipe organ), organe (organon, organum). (various references) | |
Frisian | oargel. (various references) | |
German | Orgel (pipe organ), Organ (agent, body, branch, division, instrument). (various references) | |
Greek | όργανο (appliance, implement, instrument, instrumentality, mouthpiece). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוסד (charity, establishment, foundation, institute, institution), מכשיר (aid, apparatus, appliance, gadget, implement, instrument, tool), עוגב, אמצעי (aid, expedient, facility, implement, indirectly, mean, means, measure, median, medium, mid, middle, resort, resource, resources, step, steppingstone, tool), איבר (element, extremity, limb, member, part, penis), אורגן, אבר (limb, part, pinion, wing), כלי (apparatus, article, implement, instrument, kit, thing, tool, vessel, weapon), בטאון (mouthpiece). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szerv (body, member, tract, transplant), orgona (lilac), orgánum. (various references) | |
Indonesian | alat (appliance, device, instrument, means, stuff, tool, utensil, utility). (various references) | |
Italian | organo (body, part, unit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 風琴 (harmonium), 器官 (instrument), 機関紙 (bulletin), 機関 (engine, facility, mechanism), オリンピック憲章 (alternate, alternative, Olympic Charter, Olympos, OPP, organize, organizer, orgasm, orgone energy, orthophenyl phenol). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きかんし (a quarterly, bronchial tube, bulletin, engineer), きかん (already published, boiler, engine, facility, feedback, flagship, gauge, hunger and cold, instrument, key, mainstay, mechanism, mirror, nucleus, paragon, pattern, period, quarterly, repatriation, return, returning to one'sship, term, trachea, wonderful sight, your letter), ふうきん (harmonium), オルガン , オルゴール . (various references) | |
Korean | 기관 (Agencies, Agency, institution, Organs, throttle). (various references) | |
Manx | organe, olt (article, clause, commissure, connection, contribution, joint, limb, par, section). (various references) | |
Papago | chuchuis (organ-pipe cactus). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | organay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | órgão (installation, pipe organ). (various references) | |
Romanian | organizaţie (association, body, constitution, foundation, guild, organization, society, structure), organ de presã, organ (agency, authority, body, mouthpiece), orgã (pipe organ), ziar (Gazette, journal, magazine, newspaper, paper, periodical, sheet), voce (key, part, sound, voice), instituţie (establishment, foundation, institute, institution). (various references) | |
Russian | учреждение (establishment, foundation, institute, institution, instructions), часть тела (region), голос (call, voice, voicing, vox), орган;блок, орган (limb, pipe organ). (various references) | |
Scottish | organ. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | orgulje, organ. (various references) | |
Spanish | órgano (pipe organ). (various references) | |
Swedish | organ (authority, newspaper, organs, parts, tract), orgel. (various references) | |
Thai | อวัยวะ, หีบเพลงปาก. (various references) | |
Turkish | organ (agency, member), org, uzuv (limb, member), kuruluş (being set-up, body, concern, enterprise, establishment, foundation, institute, institution, promotional, set up, shop), araç (agent, appliance, facility, implement, instrument, means, medium, tool, vehicle, vehicular), alet (agent, aid, apparatus, appliance, device, gadgety, implement, instrument, instrumental, Jigger, job, means, tool, vessel), örgüt (economy, organism, organization). (various references) | |
Turkmen | organ. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | установа (establishment, outfit, service, shop), частина тіла (part), грати на органі, голос (call, suffrage, voice), газета (journal, news, news sheet, newspaper), орган (agency, authority, organism, unit), друкований орган. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cơ quan nhà nước giọng nói, cơ quan ngôn luận. (various references) | |
Welsh | organ, ermyg (instrument). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | organon. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | membra, membri, membris, membrorum, membrum, organum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai onoma tw adelfw autou ioubal outoV hn o katadeixaV yalthrion kai kiqaran |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et nomen fratris eius Iubal ipse fuit pater canentium cithara et organo |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | His broþor hatte Iubal, þe wæs fæder hearpera ond þæra þe organan macodan. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the name of his brother Tubal, he was the fadre of syngerys in harp and orgon. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And hys brothers name was Iubal: of hym came all that excercyse them selves on the harpe and on the organs |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all players on instruments of music. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
