Organize
['ɔrɡənaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) bring order and organization to; 'Can you help me organize my files?'.
(verb.) arrange by systematic planning and united effort; 'machinate a plot'; 'organize a strike'; 'devise a plan to take over the director's office'.
(verb.) cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea.
Typed by Anton--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem.
Typist: Lucinda
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Constitute (by assignment of parts), dispose or arrange in parts (for special functions), construct, form, make.
Typed by Gordon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Shape, adjust, constitute, frame, dispose, arrange, construct
ANT:Distort, break_up, annul, disorganize, dismember, disband
Typed by Claire
Examples
- If that is the way human societies organize sovereignty, the sooner we face that fact the better. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They helped to organize a formless resentment by endowing it with intelligence and will. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- First he had the entrances to the streets blocked off with carts as though to organize the plaze for a _capea_. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They are to guide and organize further observations, recollections, and experiments. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- An attempt was made to organize a debating club, but it was a failure. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This event sent a wave of excitement throughout Europe, and an attempt was made to organize a crusade, but the days of the crusades were past. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It must suggest the kind of environment needed to liberate and to organize their capacities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Carriages and horses were provided for all; captains and under officers chosen, and the whole assemblage wisely organized. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The planing machine is organized in various shapes for different uses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Pal?olithic Age was an age of fights and murder, no doubt, but not of the organized collective fighting of numbers of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first State Forest Commission was organized by New York in 1885 and has now a very large forest reserve set aside in the Adirondacks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As early as 1804, the first company ever organized for gas lighting was formed in London, one side of Pall Mall being lit up by the enthusiastic pioneer, Winsor, in 1807. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The City of God_ represents the possibility of making the world into a theological and organized Kingdom of Heaven. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are not organized to stop things and when they get organized their leaders sell them out. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Selden, catching the glance, wondered what part Miss Bart had played in organizing the entertainment. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The child's home is, for example, the organizing center of his geographical knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He ruled in Rome like an independent king, organizing armies, making treaties. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If Christianity was a rebellious and destructive force towards a pagan Rome, it was a unifying and organizing force within its own communion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It would be as bad as letting Carp, and Brasenose generally, know how backward he was in organizing the matter for his Key to all Mythologies. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It, and it alone, had the facilities for organizing _will_, for the need of which the empire was falling to pieces like a piece of rotten cloth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was in no danger of an attack by the garrison in his front, and there was no army organizing in his rear to raise the siege. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Winsor takes British patent for Illuminating Gas, lights Lyceum Theatre, and organizes First Gas Company. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The other is the man who organizes the results. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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