Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life.
- n. A system regarded as analogous in its structure or functions to a living body: the social organism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Organic structure; organization.
- n. A body exhibiting organization and organic life; a member of the animal or vegetable kingdom; an individual composed of a number of essential and mutually dependent parts, all of which partake of a common life.
- n. Anything that is organized or organic.
Wiktionary
- n. biology A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
- n. by extension Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Organic structure; organization.
- n. (Biol.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, composed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
- n. a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ὄργανον ("tool, instrument"), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“work”). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Geology paper adds a new line of evidence indicating that the organism is a fungus.”
“This organism is also responsible for the characteristic sour taste of fermented dairy foods such as yogurt.”
“The concept of dsRNA as a trigger for sequence-specific gene silencing only makes sense if one recognizes that the organism is actively responding by unwinding the RNA strands both for amplification and to generate single strands capable of base pairing with targets.”
“The use of a gas such as NO for signalling between cells in the organism is an entirely new concept that has emerged from the work of Furchgott, Ignarro, and”
“Drawing on the work of Richard Dawkins Deutsch copiously acknowledges his influences, he explains that a gene is a little packet of knowledge about the environment it exists in-a set of instructions for building a complex chemical bundle, which we call an organism, that will protect it and allow it to make copies of itself.”
“So you're saying that I said in effect that "transitional structures are not selectable, that is, each organism is not adapted to its own environment"?”
“When a trapped organism is freed and begins a series of attacks, she is forced to team with a blue-collar mercenary helicopter pilot (Edgerton) to stop the rampage.”
“The organism is considered an indicator of whether potential contaminants from the intestines of cattle have gotten into slaughtered meat — a source of the far more dangerous E. coli O157: H7.”
“Anyone or anything can become an unreasonable interference with use and enjoyment of property, but the individual organism is something all together different and amazing.”
“You know, organisms that can grow an entire genetically identical organism from a single cutting on their own.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘organism’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Earth-Friendly Organic Produce
An Ecosystem of earth/life-related words.
blueskycloudform, sojourn, reuse, reduce, compostable, habitat, ecology, bionomics, Eco-Art, sustainability, forest garden, biosystems and 47 more...
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science (collective opinion)
random scientific terms from a group of one hundred 16-18 year olds to choose 100 words that, in their collective opinion, represent crucial factors and concepts influencing trends in science today...
acid, base, aggregation status, analysis, antimatter, apparatus, atmosphere, atom, bacteria, Big Bang, biodiversity, bioethics and 90 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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lucidityprevails's Words
lucidity, journalistic, truthiness, foolhardy, egotism, lesbian, orgasmic, activism, moonglow, voodoo, conquer, demolish and 534 more...
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voca22000_9
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molecule, atom, electron, particle, nuclear, carbon, engineering, test tube, experiments, organism, germ, cell and 8 more...
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Greek words
Words stem from Greek ones.
stentorian, thespian, petrify, enigmatic, scandal, physiognomy, Herculean, fantastic, hypothesis, cryptic, organism, system and 5 more...
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meganashley's Words
mundane, hypothalamo neuro..., phenylalanine, morphology, banal, fedex, pimpology, scrabble, rhythmus, oblivion, paradigm, dogmatic and 43 more...
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Rich Habitats: A Study of Invertebrates
Vocabulary for studying invertebrates at Bartram's Garden
adaptation, biodiversity, cladistics, classification, decomposer, detritus, exoskeleton, habitat, invertebrate, metamorphosis, organism, predator and 16 more...
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