organize

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: or=gan=ize

CIDE DICTIONARY

organize, v. t. [Cf. F. organiser, Gr. . See Organ.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "This original and supreme will organizes the government."  [1913 Webster]
•  To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem.  Busby.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

organize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 a give an orderly structure to, systematize. b bring the affairs of (another person or oneself) into order; make arrangements for (a person).
2 a arrange for or initiate (a scheme etc.). b provide; take responsibility for (organized some sandwiches).
3 (often absol.) a enrol (new members) in a trade union, political party, etc. b form (a trade union or other political group).
4 a form (different elements) into an organic whole. b form (an organic whole).
5 (esp. as organized adj.) make organic; make into a living being or tissue.

Derivative

organizable adj. organizer n.

Etymology

ME f. OF organiser f. med.L organizare f. L (as ORGAN)

THESAURUS

organize

adjust, affiliate, ally, arrange, array, assemble, associate, band together, be in cahoots, begin, build, build up, bunch, bunch up, cabal, calculate, cast, catalogue, categorize, cement a union, centralize, chart, classify, club, club together, codify, combine, come together, compose, concert, confederate, consist of, consociate, conspire, constitute, construct, contrive, cool off, coordinate, couple, create, cut out, deploy, design, develop, devise, dispose, effect, effectuate, embody, enter into, establish, fabricate, federalize, federate, figure, fix, forecast, form, found, frame, gang, gang up, go in partners, go in partnership, go into, grade, group, harmonize, hierarchize, hook up with, inaugurate, incept, incorporate, initiate, install, institute, integrate, intend, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join together, join up with, join with, lay out, lay plans, league, line up, make, make a projection, make arrangements, make up, marry, marshal, materialize, merge in, methodize, mix, muster, normalize, order, originate, pacify, pair, pair off, partner, piece together, plan, plan ahead, prearrange, program, project, put together, quiet, rally, rank, rationalize, realize, regularize, regulate, routinize, schedule, schematize, set up, settle, shape, sort out, stand together, stand up with, standardize, start, structure, synchronize, synthesize, systematize, systemize, tabulate, team up with, team with, throw in with, tie in with, tie up with, tranquilize, tune, tune up, unionize, unite in, unite with, wed, work out, work up

ROGET THESAURUS

organize

Plan

VB plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch, devise, invent, set one's wits to work, spring a project, fall upon, hit upon, strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out, lay down a plan, shape out a course, mark out a course, predetermine, concert, preconcert, preestablish, prepare, hatch, hatch a plot concoct, take steps, take measures, cast, recast, systematize, organize, arrange, digest, mature, plot, counter-plot, counter-mine, dig a mine, lay a train, intrigue.

Arrangement

VB reduce to order, bring into order, introduce order into, rally, arrange, dispose, place, form, put in order, set in order, place in order, set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal, cast the parts, assign the parts, dispose of, assign places to, assort, sort, sift, riddle, put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array, apportion, class, classify, divide, file, string together, thread, register, catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade, methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix, unravel, disentangle, ravel, card, disembroil, feaze.

Continuity

VB follow in a series, form a series, fall in, arrange in a series, collate, string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.