Instrument vs Organ - What's the difference?
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A device used to produce music.
A means or agency for achieving an effect.
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, chapter=1 A measuring or displaying device.
A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
(legal) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
(figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To apply measuring devices.
To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.
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
Instrument is a related term of organ.
As nouns the difference between instrument and organ
is that instrument is while organ is organ.instrument
English
(wikipedia instrument)Noun
(en noun)- The violinist was a master of her instrument .
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- The instrument detected an increase in radioactivity.
- The dentist set down his tray of instruments'''.'' The scientist recorded the temperature with a thermometer but wished he had a more accurate ' instrument ."
- A bond indenture is the instrument that gives a bond its value.
- Negotiable instruments are the foundation of the debt markets.
- Or useful serving man and instrument , / To any sovereign state.
- The bold are but the instruments of the wise.
Synonyms
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* blunt instrument * debt instrument * derivative instrument * financial instrument * instrumentation * instrumental * instrumentive * measuring instrument * musical instrument * negotiable instrument * writing instrumentVerb
(en verb)- a sonata instrumented for orchestra
Synonyms
* (to apply measuring devices) measure, supervise * * (to perform on an instrument) play * (to prepare for an instrument) arrangeSee also
* instrumentalAnagrams
* ----organ
English
(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
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(en verb)- Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.