Organize vs Arrange - What's the difference?
organize | arrange |
To (l) in working order.
To (l) in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
* Cranch
To (l) with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; — in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
* Ray
(music) To sing in parts.
To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To put in order, to organize.
To plan; to prepare in advance.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
(label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
As verbs the difference between organize and arrange
is that organize is to arrange in working order while arrange is to set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.organize
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Alternative forms
* organiseVerb
(organiz)- This original and supreme will organizes the government.
- These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce.
- to organize an anthem
- (Busby)
Derived terms
* organized * organizer * organization * self-organizeExternal links
* * ----arrange
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Verb
(arrang)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}