organ

organ is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. 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.
6. transitive verb. To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.
7. noun. (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
8. noun. a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

   Synonyms: harmonium

9. 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
10. noun. a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
11. noun. a periodical that is published by a special interest group

    "the organ of the communist party"

12. noun. a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

    "The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department"

Synonyms

harmonium

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in organ:

agron, angor, argon, garon, goran, grano, groan, nagor, orang, rogan, ronga

Common word forms

organs, organal, organer, organing, organise, organity, organize, organless

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