organize
/ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
Transitive verb
verb
To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life
Transitive verb
verb
To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Multiple bits moving in macroprocess join triplet macrounits which logically organize information networks encoding units in structures enclosing triplet code."
- "This original and supreme will organizes the government."
- "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."
- "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."
- "an organized being"
- "organized matter"
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/
- British English: /ˈɔːɡənaɪz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
organizes (present, singular)
organizing (participle, present)
organized (participle, past)
organized (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
organized (first person, past)
organizest (archaic, present)
organized (past, second person)
organizedst (archaic, past)
organizeth (archaic, present)
organized (past, singular)