organize

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To put together into an orderly, functional, structured whole.
2. v. To arrange in a coherent form; systematize: organized her thoughts before speaking.
3. v. To arrange in a desired pattern or structure: "The painting is organized about a young reaper enjoying his noonday rest” ( William Carlos Williams).
4. v. To arrange systematically for harmonious or united action: organize a strike. See Synonyms at arrange.
5. v. To establish as an organization: organize a club. See Synonyms at found¹.
6. v. To induce (employees) to form or join a labor union.
7. v. To induce the employees of (a business or an industry) to form or join a union: organize a factory.
8. v. To develop into or assume an organic structure.
9. v. To form or join an activist group, especially a labor union.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To render organic; give an organic structure to; construct or modify so as to exhibit or subserve vital processes: commonly in the past participle.
2. In general, to form into a whole consisting of interdependent parts; coördinate the parts of; systematize; arrange according to a uniform plan or for a given purpose; provide with a definite structure or constitution; order.
3. In music, to sing or arrange in parts: as, to organize the halleluiah.
4. Synonyms To constitute, construct.
5. To assume an organic structure or a definite formation or constitution, as a number of individuals; become coördinated or systematically arranged or ordered.
6. Also spelled organise.
7. To arrange; plan; prepare.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To arrange in working order.
2. v. transitive To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
3. v. transitive To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; — in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
4. v. transitive, music To sing in parts.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. (Biol.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; ; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
2. v. To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc.
3. v. (Mus.), rare To sing in parts.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. create (as an entity)
2. v. form or join a union
3. v. cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
4. v. bring order and organization to
5. v. plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
6. v. arrange by systematic planning and united effort