Apparatus vs Organ - What's the difference?
apparatus | organ |
The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
A complex machine or instrument.
An assortment of tools or instruments.
A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
(firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
A largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
(by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
(musical instruments) 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.
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, title= An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
A species of cactus ().
(slang) The penis.
(obsolete) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
* Bishop Mannyngham
As nouns the difference between apparatus and organ
is that apparatus is apparatus while organ is organ.apparatus
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(en-noun)Usage notes
* Is occasionally used as an invariant plural: *: Look at all of those apparatus .Synonyms
* (entirety of means) setup, mechanism, dynamic * (complex machine) instrument, machinery, device * (assortment of tools) tools, gear, equipment * (political patronage organization) machineorgan
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(wikipedia organ) (Pipe organ)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* barrel organ * house organ * internal organ * mouth organ * pipe organ * sense organ * sex organ * storage organ * swell organ * vital organExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)- Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.