Bojanus organ
() A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney. |
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 |
Rosenmuller's organ
() The parovarium. |
Slide
(v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling |
Slide
(v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet. |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass inadvertently. |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly |
Slide
(v. t.) To slip when walking or standing |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound. |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. |
Slide
(v. t.) To cause to slide |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly |
Slide
(n.) The act of sliding |
Slide
(n.) Smooth, even passage or progress. |
Slide
(n.) That on which anything moves by sliding. |
Slide
(n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down. |
Slide
(n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement. |
Slide
(n.) That which operates by sliding. |
Slide
(n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it. |
Slide
(n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides. |
Slide
(n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like. |
Slide
(n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like |
Slide
(n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side |
Slide
(n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. |
Slide
(n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below. |
Slide
(n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics. |
Slide
(n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound. |
Slide
(n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide. |
Slide
(n.) A slide valve. |
Tuning
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tune |
Tuning
() a. & n. from Tune, v. |
slide
glide
coast | the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it, his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill, the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope |
| 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 |
| tuning | (music) calibrating something (an instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency |
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 |
chute
slide
slideway
sloping trough | sloping channel through which things can descend |
electric organ
electronic organ
Hammond organ
organ | (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ |
| hair slide | a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place |
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 |
pump action
slide action | action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun, a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round |
| slide lantern slide | a transparency mounted in a frame, viewed with a slide projector |
| slide microscope slide | a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study |
slide playground slide
sliding board | plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide |
slide fastener
zip
zipper
zip fastener | a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab |
| slide projector | projector that projects an enlarged image of a slide onto a screen |
slide rule
slipstick | analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations, have been replaced by pocket calculators |
| slide valve | valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port |
| tuning fork | a metal implement with two prongs that gives a fixed tone when struck, used to tune musical instruments |
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 |
| taret organ | (endocrinology) organ most affected by a particular hormone |
| erectile organ | an organ containing erectile tissue |
| respiratory organ | any organ involved in the process of respiration |
nose
olfactory organ | the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract, the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals, he has a cold in the nose |