organize
verbUK /ˈɔːɡənaɪz/ · US /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/
Etymology From Middle English organizen, organysen, partly from Middle French organiser and partly from its etymon, Medieval Latin organizō, from Latin organum (“organ”). By surface analysis, organ + -ize.
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To arrange in working order.
- Multiple bits moving in macroprocess join triplet macrounits which logically organize information networks encoding units in structures enclosing triplet code.2015, Vladimir S. Lerner, “The impulse observations of random process generate information binding reversible micro and irreversible macro processes in Observer: regularities, limitations, and conditions of self-creation”, in arXiv:
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To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
- This original and supreme will organizes the government.1803, William Cranch, Marbury v. Madison:
- With Arthur it was clearly the Falklands factor writ large. Actions such as organizing and building the Wansdyke or Cadbury 11 (the refortification) would have strengthened the authority and extended the power of whichever king was the organizer.2003, Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend:
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- Ms. Crabapple did a lot of posing in bikinis, and less, to pay her way through F.I.T.; in addition to showing in fine art galleries and drawing comics, she organizes events she calls Dr. Sketchy’s, a life drawing class that’s also a burlesque show with music, costumes and seminudity.2008 April 18, Susan Dominus, “Young, Hip and Wild About Comic Books”, in The New York Times:
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Used in the past participle To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life
- an organized being
- organized matter
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- These nobler faculties in the mind of man, […] matter organized could never produce.1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music To sing in parts.
- to organize an anthem
- Formerly , those Catholic priests who sung in parts : so to sing , was to organize1828, Thomas Busby, A Complete Dictionary of Music:
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To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize.
- the workers decided to organize; their next task was to organize the workers at the steel mill
- Synonyms
37 terms
adapt, adjust, apportion, arrange, assort, bunch, categorize, classify, clean, codify, collocate, compile, coordinate, disambiguate, disembroil, disentangle, fashion, fit, fix, form, formulate, group, harmonize, label, marshal, methodize, order, place, rank, regulate, sanitize, sort, standardize, systematize, tabulate, tailor, tidy- Antonyms
- confuse, disarrange, disorganize, disperse, embroil, feeze, messy, mix, scatter, upset
- Derived terms
- deorganize, disorganize, inorganize, merorganize, misorganize, organizable, organization, organized, organizer, outorganize, overorganize, preorganize, re-organize, reorganize, self-organize, self-organizing