different between avenue vs organ

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æv.??nju?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æv.??n(j)u/
• Hyphenation: av?e?nue

Noun

avenue (plural avenues)

1. A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.
2. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
3. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
4. A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
5. (urban toponymy) A street, especially, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is in a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.

Usage notes

Sometimes used interchangeably with other terms such as street. When distinguished, an avenue is generally broad and tree-lined. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid, notably Manhattan, streets run east-west, while avenues run north-south.

When abbreviated in an address (such as "Malcolm Ave" or "Fisher Av.") a capital "A" is normally used and a full stop (period) only used if "e" is not the last letter of the abbreviation.

In French traditionally used for routes between two places within a city, named for the destination (or formally where it is coming from), as in the archetypal Avenue des Champs-Élysées. This distinction is not observed in US English, where names such as “Fifth Avenue” are common. In British English, 'Avenue' is usually more associated with a tree-lined street and is sometimes named after the species of tree e.g. Acacia Avenue.

Synonyms

• (broad street): drive, boulevard
• (broad street): av., av, ave., ave (abbreviation)

Translations

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /av?ny/, [æv??ny]

Noun

avenue c (singular definite avenuen, plural indefinite avenuer)

1. avenue

Inflection

References

• “avenue” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /av.ny/

Noun

avenue f (plural avenues)

1. avenue (broad street, especially bordered with trees)
2. (specifically) a radial avenue (an avenue radiating from a central point, especially bordered with trees)
3. (dated) avenue (principal walk or approach to a house or other building)
4. (figuratively) avenue (means by which something may be accomplished)

Derived terms

• (abbreviation): av., av, ave., ave

Adjective

avenue

1. feminine singular of avenu

Further reading

• “avenue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer?-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???.??n/
  • Homophone: Oregon (one pronunciation)
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n
• Hyphenation: or?gan

Noun

organ (plural organs)

1. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
2. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
3. (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
4. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
5. Short for organ pipe cactus.
6. government organization; agency; authority
7. (slang) The penis.

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:organ.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Korean: ??? (oreugan)
• ? Maori: ?kana
• ? Vietnamese: oóc-gan

Translations

Further reading

• organ in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• organ in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

organ (third-person singular simple present organs, present participle organing, simple past and past participle organed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
   • 1681, Thomas Manningham, Two Discourses

     Thou art elemented and organ'd for other apprehensions.

Anagrams

• Angor, Garon, Goran, Grano, Ongar, Ragon, Rogan, Ronga, angor, argon, groan, nagor, orang, rag on, rango

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch orgaan, from Middle Dutch organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?an]
• Hyphenation: or?gan

Noun

organ

1. organ:
   1. (biology) a larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
   2. (music) a musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
   3. an official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
2. mouthpiece, a spokesperson or medium aligned with an organisation.

Related terms

Further reading

• “organ” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

organ

1. Alternative form of organe

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin organum, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon),

Noun

organ n (definite singular organet, indefinite plural organ or organer, definite plural organa or organene)

1. (anatomy, biology) an organ
2. an organ (publication which represents an organisation)
3. a body (e.g. an advisory body)

Derived terms

• kjønnsorgan

See also

• orgel (musical instrument)

References

• “organ” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon), via Latin organum

Noun

organ n (definite singular organet, indefinite plural organ, definite plural organa)

1. (anatomy, biology) an organ
2. an organ (publication which represents an organisation)
3. a body (e.g. an advisory body)

Derived terms

• kjønnsorgan

See also

• orgel (musical instrument)

References

• “organ” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.?an/

Noun

organ m inan

1. organ, part of an organism
2. (by extension) unit of government dedicated to a specific function
3. (politics) organ, official publication of a political organization

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ??????? (órganos), from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon), partly through the intermediate of Slavic *or?gan?. Some senses also based on French orgue (cf. org?), Italian organum, Italian organo.

Noun

organ n (plural organe)

1. organ (part of organism)
2. (archaic) organ (musical instrument)

Declension

Synonyms

• (musical instrument): org?

See also

• m?dular

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?a?n/
• Hyphenation: or?gan

Noun

òrg?n m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. organ (part of an organism)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

organ n

1. (anatomy) an organ (a part of the body)
2. (dated) a voice (of a singer or actor)

   Hon förenade med ett utmärkt teateryttre en hög grad af intelligens, en ypperlig organ och en förträfflig deklamationskonst

   She combined with excellent theatrical looks a high degree of intelligence, an extraordinary voice and a splendid mastery of declamation

3. an organ; a newspaper (of an organization, i.e. its voice)

Declension

Related terms

Anagrams

• argon