Bojanus organ
() A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney. |
Octave
(n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included |
Octave
(n.) The eighth tone in the scale |
Octave
(n.) The whole diatonic scale itself. |
Octave
(n.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each |
Octave
(n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe. |
Octave
(a.) Consisting of eight |
Organ
(n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished |
Organ
(n.) A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole |
Organ
(n.) A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine |
Organ
(n.) A medium of communication between one person or body and another |
Organ
(n.) A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals |
Organ
(v. t.) To supply with an organ or organs |
Pitch
(n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships |
Pitch
(n.) See Pitchstone. |
Pitch
(n.) To cover over or smear with pitch. |
Pitch
(n.) Fig.: To darken |
Pitch
(v. t.) To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose |
Pitch
(v. t.) To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles |
Pitch
(v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. |
Pitch
(v. t.) To fix or set the tone of |
Pitch
(v. t.) To set or fix, as a price or value. |
Pitch
(v. i.) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation |
Pitch
(v. i.) To light |
Pitch
(v. i.) To fix one's choise |
Pitch
(v. i.) To plunge or fall |
Pitch
(n.) A throw |
Pitch
(n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. |
Pitch
(n.) A point or peak |
Pitch
(n.) Height |
Pitch
(n.) A descent |
Pitch
(n.) The point where a declivity begins |
Pitch
(n.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it |
Pitch
(n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. |
Pitch
(n.) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line |
Pitch
(n.) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller. |
Pitch
(n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates. |
Pitch-black
(a.) Black as pitch or tar. |
Pitch-dark
(a.) Dark as a pitch |
Pitch-faced
(a.) Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges |
Pitch-ore
(n.) Pitchblende. |
Rosenmuller's organ
() The parovarium. |
Tough-pitch
(n.) The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. |
Tough-pitch
(n.) Copper so reduced |
| pitch | the action or manner of throwing something, his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor |
| pitch delivery | (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter |
change-up
change-of-pace
change-of-pace ball
off-speed pitch | a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball |
| overhand pitch | a baseball pitch in which the hand moves above the shoulder |
submarine ball
submarine pitch | a pitch thrown sidearm instead of overhead |
| wild pitch | an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base |
| lurch pitch pitching | abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance), the pitching and tossing was quite exciting |
| pitch auction pitch | an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump |
| pitch pitch shot | a high approach shot in golf |
| transplant transplantation organ transplant | an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient), he had a kidney transplant, the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent, a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago |
lateral line
lateral line organ | sense organs of fish and amphibians, believed to detect pressure changes in the water |
| American organ | a freeeed instrument in which air is drawn in through reeds by suction bellows |
barrel organ
grind organ
hand organ
hurdy gurdy
hurdy-gurdy
street organ | a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs |
calliope
steam organ | a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard |
electric organ
electronic organ
Hammond organ
organ | (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ |
harmonica
mouth organ
harp mouth harp | a small rectangular freeeed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole |
harmonium
organ reed organ | a freeeed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows |
organ
pipe organ | wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard |
| organ loft | a gallery occupied by a church organ |
organ pipe
pipe pipework | the flues and stops on a pipe organ |
| organ stop | a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality |
| pitch pipe | a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency, used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing |
| variable-pitch propeller | propeller for which the angle of the blades is adjustable |
coal black
ebony
jet black
pitch black
sable
soot black | a very dark black |
| pitch | the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration |
concert pitch
philharmonic pitch
international pitch | the pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances, usually assignsHz to the A above middle C |
high pitch
high frequency | a pitch that is perceived as above other pitches |
low pitch
low frequency | a pitch that is perceived as below other pitches |
pitch rake
slant | degree of deviation from a horizontal plane, the roof had a steep pitch |
contractile organ
contractor | a bodily organ that contracts |
| organ | a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function |
vital organ
vitals | a bodily organ that is essential for life |
| external organ | an organ that is situated on or near the surface of the body |
internal organ
viscus | a main organ that is situated inside the body |
sense organ
sensory receptor
receptor | an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation |
tastebud
taste bud
gustatory organ | an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue |
speech organ
vocal organ
organ of speech | any of the organs involved in speech production |
| organ of hearing | the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound |
| organ of Corti | the hearing organ of the inner ear, contains receptors that respond to sound waves |
gland
secretory organ
secretor
secreter | any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream |
excretory organ
urinary organ | an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them |
organelle
cell organelle
cell organ | a specialized part of a cell, analogous to an organ, the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus |
| end organ | a specialized structure at the peripheral end of some motor or sensory nerve fibers |
reproductive organ
sex organ | any organ involved in sexual reproduction |
genitalia
genital organ
genitals
private parts
privates
crotch | external sex organ |
female genitalia
female genitals
female genital organ
fanny | external female sex organs, in England `fanny' is vulgar slang for female genitals |
| female internal reproductive organ | the reproductive organs of a woman |
male genitalia
male genitals
male genital organ
family jewels | external male sex organs |
| male internal reproductive organ | the reproductive organs of a man |
| target organ | (radiology) organ intended to receive the therapeutic dose of a radioactive substance |