Definition of "organ"

organ

/ˈɔɹ.ɡən/

noun
plural organs
1. The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
  Quotations
  No matter the extraordinary progress that has been made in heart surgery over the past century, the heart remains a vulnerable organ.
  2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, page 98
2. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
3. (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
  Quotations
  He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […] , the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
4. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
5. Short for organ pipe cactus.
6. A government organization; agency; authority.
7. (slang) The penis.
  Quotations
  If the Snake has an unmistakeable resemblance to the male organ in its active state, the foliage of the tree or bush is equally remindful of the female.
  1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 81
8. (historical, military) An Asian form of mitrailleuse.
  Quotations
  Lieutenant Roberts was also severely wounded by a missile, or weapon called an Organ, which is composed of about thirty-six gun barrels so joined as to fire at once.
  1790, H. Compton, A particular account of the European military adventurers of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803, page 61
verb
third-person singular simple present organs, present participle organing, simple past and past participle organed
1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
  Quotations
  Thou art elemented and organ'd for other apprehensions.
  1681, Thomas Manningham, Two Discourses