Organ vs. Tissue

By Jaxson

  • Organ (noun)

    A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.

  • Organ (noun)

    A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.

  • Organ (noun)

    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.

  • Organ (noun)

    An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.

  • Organ (noun)

    A species of cactus (noshow=1).

  • Organ (noun)

    The penis.

  • Organ (verb)

    To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.

  • Tissue (noun)

    Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.

  • Tissue (noun)

    A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.

  • Tissue (noun)

    A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.

  • Tissue (noun)

    Absorbent paper as material.

  • Tissue (noun)

    A group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job.

  • Tissue (noun)

    Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.

    “a tissue of forgeries, or of lies”

  • Tissue (verb)

    To form tissue of; to interweave.

Wiktionary
  • Organ (noun)

    a part of an organism which is typically self-contained and has a specific vital function

    “the internal organs”

  • Organ (noun)

    used euphemistically to refer to the penis

    “the male organ”

  • Organ (noun)

    a region of the brain formerly held to be the seat of a particular faculty.

  • Organ (noun)

    a large musical instrument having rows of pipes supplied with air from bellows (now usually electrically powered), and played using a keyboard or by an automatic mechanism. The pipes are generally arranged in ranks of a particular type, each controlled by a stop, and often into larger sets linked to separate keyboards.

  • Organ (noun)

    an electronic keyboard instrument that produces sounds similar to those of a pipe organ.

  • Organ (noun)

    a department or organization that performs a specified function

    “the organs of local government”

  • Organ (noun)

    a newspaper or periodical which promotes the views of a political party or movement

    “he repositioned the journal as a leading organ of neoconservatism”

Oxford Dictionary

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