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tongue vs organ

organ vs tongue

tongue and organ both are nouns.

tongue is a verb but organ is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
tongue Yes No Yes No
organ Yes No No No
As nouns, organ is a hypernym of tongue; that is, organ is a word with a broader meaning than tongue:
  • tongue: a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
  • organ: a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
Other hypernyms of tongue include articulator.
tongue (noun) organ (noun)
the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
a manner of speaking a periodical that is published by a special interest group
the tongue of certain animals used as meat a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function
a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
any long thin projection that is transient
tongue (verb) organ (verb)
lick or explore with the tongue
articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
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