order

Nouns

• (n) (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
  • the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London
• (n) a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
  • it was on the order of a mile
  • an explosion of a low order of magnitude
  order of magnitude,
• (n) established customary state (especially of society)
  • order ruled in the streets
  • law and order
• (n) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
  • we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation
  ordering, ordination,
• (n) a condition of regular or proper arrangement
  • he put his desk in order
  • the machine is now in working order
  orderliness,
• (n) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
  • a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there
  decree, fiat, edict, rescript,
• (n) a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
  • IBM received an order for a hundred computers
  purchase order,
• (n) a formal association of people with similar interests
  • he joined a golf club
  • they formed a small lunch society
  • men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
  gild, guild, social club, club, lodge, society,
• (n) a body of rules followed by an assembly parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order,
• (n) (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy
  • theologians still disagree over whether "bishop" should or should not be a separate Order
  Holy Order,
• (n) a group of person living under a religious rule
  • the order of Saint Benedict
  monastic order,
• (n) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
• (n) a request for something to be made, supplied, or served
  • I gave the waiter my order
  • the company's products were in such demand that they got more orders than their call center could handle
• (n) (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans
• (n) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
  • there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list
  ordering,

Verbs

• (v) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
  • I said to him to go home
  • She ordered him to do the shopping
  • The mother told the child to get dressed
  enjoin, tell, say,
• (v) make a request for something
  • Order me some flowers
  • order a work stoppage
• (v) issue commands or orders for dictate, prescribe,
• (v) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
  • We cannot regulate the way people dress
  • This town likes to regulate
  govern, regularise, regularize, regulate,
• (v) bring order to or into
  • Order these files
• (v) place in a certain order
  • order the photos chronologically
• (v) appoint to a clerical posts
  • he was ordained in the Church
  consecrate, ordinate, ordain,
• (v) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
  • arrange my schedule
  • set up one's life
  • I put these memories with those of bygone times
  arrange, put, set up,
• (v) assign a rank or rating to
  • how would you rank these students?
  • The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide
  grade, rate, rank, place, range,

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