organs

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of organ.

   The transplant team prepared the donated organs for immediate surgery.

   Two enormous pipe organs once filled the cathedral with sound during festivals.

   Note

   A regular plural that carries every meaning of the singular, so context does the sorting. Donated organs belong to the body and cathedral organs to music. The organs of an organization are its working bodies, or else its official publications. The obsolete sense of a device or apparatus survives only in older writing, and organs can also be short for organ pipe cacti.

2. 2
   verbobsolete

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of organ. Obsolete.

   Note

   Behind this verb form stands an obsolete transitive use: to supply or fit something with organs. That use always takes a direct object, the thing being furnished. Because the verb has fallen out of use, the form sounds unusual in present-day prose, and most writers will find a plainer phrasing clearer.

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