📖 O — The English dictionary · page 14

organic — Everyday, meaning 1: Organic food is grown or raised without man-made chemicals such as artificial pesticides and fertilisers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Organic means coming from living things, such as plants and animals.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (chemistry) Organic substances contain carbon, like sugar, oil and plastics.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Organic growth or change happens naturally and slowly, not forced.↗ Example: We buy organic apples at the market.↗ · Leaves and peel are organic matter for the compost.↗ · Soil is full of organic material.↗ · This farm grows organic vegetables.↗ · Organic waste goes in the green bin.↗ · Wood is organic because it came from a tree.↗ · The club grew in an organic way, friend by friend.↗ · Organic eggs come from hens kept without certain chemicals.↗

organisation — Everyday, meaning 1: An organisation is a group of people who work together for a purpose, such as a charity, club, company or school.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Organisation is the way things are arranged or planned.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Organisation is being able to plan and keep things in order.↗ Example: The Red Cross is an organisation that helps people.↗ · She works for a charity organisation.↗ · Good organisation helps you finish homework on time.↗ · The party needed a lot of organisation.↗ · The organisation of your essay should be clear.↗ · Scouts is a worldwide organisation.↗

organise — Everyday, meaning 1: To organise something is to plan and arrange it: organise a party, a trip or a game.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To organise things is to put them in order: organise your pencil case.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To organise people is to get them to work together for a goal, such as a club or a protest.↗ Example: We organised a cake sale for charity.↗ · Organise your books by size.↗ · Mum organised a surprise party for Dad.↗ · Organise your results in a table.↗ · The class organised a litter pick in the park.↗ · She is good at organising her time.↗ · Who is organising the school trip?↗

organised — Everyday, meaning 1: Organised means tidy and well planned, so things are where they should be and done on time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Arranged or planned: an organised trip was set up by someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) If you organised something, you planned it or put it in order.↗ Example: She is very organised and never forgets her homework.↗ · We organised the books by size.↗ · The school organised a trip to the museum.↗ · Keep your desk organised.↗ · Organised data is easier to read in a table.↗ · Dad got organised and made a list for the shop.↗ · He played in an organised football league.↗

organiser — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who plans and arranges an event or activity, like a party, a trip or a sports day.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A box, folder, diary or app that helps you keep things in order.↗ Example: The organisers of the fun run gave out medals.↗ · Mum was the main organiser of the school fair.↗ · I keep my pens in a desk organiser.↗ · The organiser checked everyone's names on the list.↗ · She is a great organiser and never forgets anything.↗ · Thank the organisers for a wonderful day.↗

organism — Everyday, meaning 1: Any living thing, such as an animal, plant, fungus or bacterium.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A whole system with parts that work together like a living thing.↗ Example: A tree is a living organism.↗ · Bacteria are tiny organisms.↗ · Every organism needs energy to live.↗ · Some organisms have only one cell.↗ · We looked at pond organisms under a microscope.↗ · Fungi are organisms, not plants.↗

organization — Everyday, meaning 1: A group of people who work together for a purpose, such as a charity, a club, a company or a school.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The planning and arranging of things so they work well.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The way something is arranged or put together.↗ Example: The Red Cross is an organization that helps people in disasters.↗ · Good organization helps you finish your homework on time.↗ · Our teacher praised the organization of my story into clear paragraphs.↗ · The United Nations is an international organization.↗ · The school trip failed because of poor organization.↗ · She works for an organization that protects wildlife.↗

organize — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To arrange things in a neat and sensible order.↗ Example: Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

organized — Everyday, meaning 1: Organized means put in a neat order, or sorted into groups.↗ She organized her books by size.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Organized means planned and set up: he organized a party.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An organized person keeps things tidy and plans ahead.↗ Example: She organized her 24 stickers into 4 rows.↗ · He organized a party for 12 friends.↗ · The cards are organized into 3 piles.↗ · The class organized a bake sale.↗ · We organized the data in a tally chart.↗ · My sister is very organized; she plans everything.↗ · The books are organized by colour.↗ · The school organized a trip to the museum.↗

orient — Everyday, meaning 1: To find out or work out where you are or which way you are facing, as in "orient yourself with a map".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To turn or place something to face a certain way, as in "oriented north".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To aim something at a particular group or purpose, as in "a course oriented to beginners".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (the Orient, old-fashioned) The countries of East Asia.↗ Example: Use the compass to orient the map to north.↗ · It took me a week to orient myself in the new school.↗ · The house is oriented to face the sun.↗ · The church is oriented east, as many old churches are.↗ · The game is oriented towards young children.↗ · Marco Polo travelled to the Orient.↗ (old-fashioned)↗

oriental — Everyday, meaning 1: (old-fashioned) From or to do with the countries of East Asia, like China, Japan and Korea.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Used in some fixed names for things, like "oriental rug" or "Oriental Shorthair" (a cat breed).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: From or to do with the wider East, such as India, Persia or Arabia.↗ Example: The museum had a room of oriental rugs.↗ · Old maps called East Asia "the Orient".↗ · In the old book, the market sold "oriental spices".↗ · The Oriental Shorthair is a slim cat breed.↗ · We say "East Asian food" rather than "oriental food" now.↗ · Calling people "Oriental" is old-fashioned and can be hurtful.↗ · He is well read, a remarkable Oriental scholar, and has a good judgment.↗ · All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Be this as it may, it is worth while to know the extravagant hypotheses which ancient Jewish philosophers and theologians framed as soon as they began to contemplate and to reason, endeavoring to combine oriental and Greek theories.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

orientation — Everyday, meaning 1: The direction something faces or points: north, south, up, sideways.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (school) A short welcome time or tour that helps new pupils or workers learn their way around.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maps, maths) Finding your way using a map and compass; or how a shape is turned.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) A person's basic beliefs, interests or who they are attracted to (as in «sexual orientation»).↗ Example: Turn the page to landscape orientation for your graph.↗ · The new pupils had an orientation tour of the school.↗ · After the shape is rotated, its orientation changes but its size stays the same.↗ · Use the compass to check the orientation of the map.↗ · The house has a south-facing orientation, so it gets lots of sun.↗ · Freshers' week at university begins with orientation.↗

oriented — Everyday, meaning 1: Oriented means pointed or turned in a certain direction.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: If you oriented yourself, you worked out where you are and which way to go.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As part of a compound, -oriented means mainly aimed at or interested in something: family-oriented, goal-oriented.↗ Example: The map is oriented with north at the top.↗ · The house is oriented to face the sun.↗ · We used a compass to get oriented in the forest.↗ · This is a family-oriented restaurant.↗ · The triangle is oriented upside down in the picture.↗ · She is very goal-oriented and works hard.↗ · The windows are oriented towards the sea.↗ · The museum is oriented to children.↗

orifice — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An opening in the body, such as the mouth, nose or ears.↗ Example: These Seven Double Letters He designed, produced, and combined, and formed with them the Planets (stars) of this Universe, the Days of the Week, and the Gates of the soul (the orifices of perception) in Man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · These Seven Double Letters He designed, pro- duced, and combined, and formed with them the Planets (stars) of this Universe, the Days of the Week, and the Gates of the soul (the orifices of perception) in Man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

origami — Everyday, meaning 1: The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes like birds, animals and boxes, usually without cutting or glue.↗ Example: We made an origami frog that can jump.↗ · Origami usually starts with a square piece of paper.↗ · Folding the paper in half makes two equal rectangles.↗ · Sadako folded origami cranes while she was in hospital.↗ · Origami helped us learn about lines of symmetry.↗ · My nan taught me origami on a rainy day.↗

origin — Everyday, meaning 1: The origin of something is where or how it began.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person's origins are the country, family or background they come from.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) The origin is the point where the x-axis and y-axis meet on a graph, at (0, 0).↗ Example: The origin of the word "sandwich" is a man's name.↗ · On a graph, start counting from the origin.↗ · Point (3, 4) is 3 across and 4 up from the origin.↗ · The label shows the country of origin.↗ · Her family's origins are in Scotland.↗ · Scientists study the origin of the universe.↗ · The origin of the Vampire is hidden in obscurity.↗ · The Ten ineffable Sephiroth have the appearance of the Lightning flash", their origin is unseen and no end is perceived.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Ten ineffable Sephiroth, whose ending is even as their origin, are like as a flame arising from a burning coal.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · "Every element has its source from a higher form, and all things have their common origin from the Word (Logos), the Holy Spirit.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Cause it to return into its sheath! — In the place where thou wast created, in the land of thine origin, will I judge thee.↗ (Prophets EZK.21.35, JPS 1917)↗ · and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem: Thine origin and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.3, JPS 1917)↗ · and I will turn the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their origin; and they shall be there a lowly kingdom.↗ (Prophets EZK.29.14, JPS 1917)↗

original — Everyday, meaning 1: First; existing at the beginning, before changes: «the original plan».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: New and different, not copied: «an original idea».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) The first real thing, not a copy: «This painting is the original».↗ Example: The original price was twenty dollars, but now it is half price.↗ · Write an original poem, not one you copied.↗ · The museum has the original painting; the poster is a copy.↗ · Our original plan was to go camping.↗ · That's a very original idea!↗ · The original Olympic Games were held in ancient Greece.↗ · A number doubled is 18; what was the original number?↗ · file which includes the original illustrations.↗ · N] = original page markers; [N] = note references (notes are in sy08 section).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Meroz has associated these ‘three books’ with what she regards to be the three original textual layers of the SY, woven together after their composition into a single work by an editor.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

originality — Everyday, meaning 1: Originality is being new and different, not copied from others.↗ Example: Her story showed great originality.↗ · The artist's originality made her paintings special.↗ · Originality is valued in writing and art.↗

originally — Everyday, meaning 1: At first; in the beginning, before something changed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Coming from a certain place first (originally from Ireland).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In a new, creative way (an originally designed toy).↗ Example: She originally had 40 stickers, but she gave 15 away.↗ · My family is originally from Scotland.↗ · The town was originally called Port Victoria.↗ · The trip was originally planned for Friday.↗ · This was originally a church, but now it's a library.↗ · How much did the coat cost originally, before the sale?↗ · For it was originally written in an obscure half-mystical style.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Tiie so-called Arabic alphabet consisted originally of only seventen letters.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The Arabic alphabet consisted originally of the following seventeen letters:") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗