organize

present singular third person organizes · participle present organizing · participle past organized · past organized · first person past singular organized · archaic present second person singular organizest · past second person singular organized · archaic past second person singular organizedst · present singular third person organizes · archaic present singular third person organizeth · past singular third person organized · past plural organized · past subjunctive organized · participle present organizing · participle past organized · alternative organise

1. transitiveTo 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

   Synonyms: marshal

2. transitiveTo 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

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   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

   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

3. transitiveTo furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life

   organized matter

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   an organized being

   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

4. transitiveentertainmentTo sing in parts.

   to organize an anthem

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   Formerly , those Catholic priests who sung in parts : so to sing , was to organize

   1828, Thomas Busby, A Complete Dictionary of Music

5. intransitivetransitiveTo 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