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ORG-uh-n/ˈɔːɡən/

An organ is a body part with a function, a large church keyboard instrument, or a newspaper as a mouthpiece: a vital organ; a party organ. Organic is about farming or carbon chemistry (already in the dictionary); organisation is a group. Label the organ on the dissection sheet. Mix-up: organic / organisation. Do not call a tissue an organ without a function as a unit.

Meaning

A body part with a function; also a church keyboard instrument, or a newspaper as a mouthpiece.

Examples

• “Label the organ on the dissection sheet, not a single tissue layer.”
• “The paper was an organ of the party, which is the mouthpiece sense; the chapel organ featured in the music unit.”

Good to know

a vital / donor organ; a church organ; an organ of + group. Trap: organic / organisation. Biology, music, and media. A body part, instrument, or mouthpiece — specify.

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