organism
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈɔrɡənɪzəm/
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organismo
- We're just a cell in a much larger organism called the global economy.
- a living organism
- a genetically modified organism
- parts of an organism
So it's like a machine or an Organism and not people.
- So it's like a machine or an Organism and not people.
- Or do you think of us as one Organism with the collective intelligence?
- They're changing as one Organism adapts to another.
- And like, what would be like the, what's the Super Organism on the planet?
- How does that impact society at large as a macro Organism?
- So, you know, I operate my business like it's, it's a, it's a, it's an Organism that needs,
- The Earth or Gaia is a is a holistic living Organism.
- So that seems to be a practical limit on how big any coherent Organism can be in the universe.
- We see people rolling carts of things around and it's, it's an Organism.
Examples
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A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism, and recognizes, that an organism at war with itself is doomed.
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And that happens by looking at the entire person as an Organism, a whole Organism.
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You have to think of this as a single organism.
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Until we work as a single organism.
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Such an approach treats a civilization as a live organism, one that is larger than a nation, region, city, or village.
Academic text (2017) -
Though Pando seems to be thousands of plants here on the surface, underground, it is actually a singular organism with an inter-connected root system.
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The community functions like a single organism, with each member contributing to its overall health.
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In a successful organization, every team operates as part of a larger organism working toward a common goal.
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The political party is often seen as an organism, adapting and evolving with each election cycle.
Synonyms
∞
2.7
A group of people who work together for a common goal
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.4
A living thing that makes its own food from sunlight or chemicals, like plants
A very small living thing like bacteria or fungi that you can only see with a microscope
- Specialized
An organism that has no tubes to carry water and food, like mosses and algae
- Archaic
A type of bacteria that resists antibiotics and causes a lung infection
How Integrated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Organism also comes from the same root organ and shares the idea behind organize, which is to make parts work as one. That's why we call a society, company, or language an organism when its parts depend on each other and act together like organs in a body.