Order
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English
Noun
Order (countable and uncountable; plural Orders)- (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
- (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
- (countable) A command.
- (countable) A request for some product or service.
- (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles; as, the Jesuit Order.
- (countable) A society of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
- (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
- (countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank
- Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
- (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
- (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.
- (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
- (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
- (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph
- (order theory) A partially ordered set.
- (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partically ordered set.
- (mathematics) The highest exponent appearing in a polynomial.
Quotations
- 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
- Donald Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching, Addison-Wesley, 1973, chapter 8:
- Since only two of our tape drives were in working order, I was ordered to order more tape units in short order, in order to order the data several orders of magnitude faster.
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Verb
Order (third-person singular simple present Orders, present participle Ordering, simple past and past participle Ordered)
- To set in (any) order (1).
- To set in (a good) order (2).
- To issue a command.
- To request some product or service.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Adjectives for Order
(command)
peremptory; positive; executive; advance; admirable; divers (pi); liberal; rigid; rarest ; extortionate; patriarchal; frantic; vast; abstract; existing; suspicious; preliminary; hostile; spiritual; convulsive; promised; imperative; social; secondary; inferior; sweeping ; subsequent; additional; imminent; allied; urgent; superior; makeshift; established; showy; actual; thundering; relenting; conflicting; visible; alphabetical; preposterous; determinate; successive (pi); obstructing; provident; retaliatory; metropolitan; explicit; sinister; treasonable; logical; half-conscious ; handsome; privileged; elegant; restricted; marching; spacious ; chronological ; switchback; notorious; noiseless ; unfill¬ed; agrarian; positive; retrograde; tessel¬lated; fraternal; strategic; ill-conceived; sealed; beneficent; contrary; preconcerted; opposite; pretty; gallant; supplementary; internal; welcome; probable; injunction; excellent; shocking; meek; florid; melting; previous; intellectual; gracious; malignant; complacent; lucid; auspicious.
Verbs for Order
accept—; comply with—; disregard—; es¬tablish—; execute—; flash—; issue—; main¬tain—; modify—; obey—; preserve—; receive—; record—; rescind—; restore—; violate—; whip into—; —bans; —bars; —com¬pels; —decrees; —hampers; —manifests it¬self; —reigns.
Adjectives for Order
(organisation, system, arrangement)
requisite; subsequent; existing; cloistered, festive; favored; valiant; venerable; celestial; vexatious; congenial; imperative; eternal; slender; ethereal; chronological; outward; symmetrical; mystic; eerie; rude; admirable; lower; reiterated; petty; social; solemn; beneficial; dubious; private; revised; economic; different; financial; lofty; honorable; privileged; patrician.
Adjectives for Order
Verbs
adhere to—; annihilate—; ape—; bury—; challenge—; establish—; fit into—; institute —; perpetuate—; rage against—; undermine —; —passes; —pervades.
Verbs for Order
(sales)
book -s; boost (colloq.)—; confirm—; con¬sign—to; fill—; lose—; overwhelm with —s; procure—; realize—; reject—; ship—; so¬licit— swamp with—s; —s filter in; — grosses; —s mount; —nets; —s pour in; —s slacken.
Thesaurus
Bronze Star Medal, Croix de Guerre, Distinguished Conduct Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Unit Citation, MO, Medaille Militaire, Military Cross, Navy Cross, Unit Citation, Victoria Cross, act on, action, adherents, adjust, adjustment, affiliation, algorithm, align, allocation, allotment, alphabetize, alternation, amendment, analyze, animal kingdom, antonomasia, apostolic orders, apply for, appointment, apportionment, appositeness, approach, appropriate, appropriateness, approximation, apt, aptness, arrange, arranged, arrangement, array, arraying, ashram, ask, ask for, association, assort, attack, auspiciousness, authorization, award, bad condition, balance, be responsible for, beauty, beg leave, behest, bespeak, bid, bidding, binomial nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, biotype, blackmail, blood, blue ribbon, body, bracket, branch, break down, breed, briefing, broken, broken-down, brood, brotherhood, busted, buy, call, call for, call on, call the shots, call the signals, call upon, calling, calm, calmness, canonization, captain, carry on, case, caste, catalog, categorization, categorize, category, chain, challenge, charge, church, claim, clamor for, clan, class, classification, classify, clean, closeness, club, codification, codify, collation, collocation, colony, coming after, command, commandment, commission, commitment, commonwealth, commune, communion, community, company, concinnity, concord, condemn, condemnation, condition, conduct, conferment, confession, confraternity, confrerie, consecration, consecution, consecutiveness, consideration, constitution, continuation, continuity, contract for, contribution, control, cool off, cordon, cordon bleu, correct, correction, correctitude, correctness, country club, course, crave, cry for, decide, decision, declare, decoration, decoration of honor, decorousness, decorum, decree, degree, deliverance, demand, demand for, demanded, deme, denomination, deploy, deployment, descent, description, desire, determination, determine, diagnosis, dictate, dictation, dictum, digest, direct, direct order, direction, directions, directive, disciples, discipline, disordered, disorganized, disposal, dispose, disposition, distribution, divide, division, doom, draft, drain, duty, echelon, economic class, edict, election, endogamous group, engage, engineer, enjoin, equilibrium, estate, euphony, exact, exaction, expediency, extended family, extension, extent, extort, extortion, extortionate demand, faction, faith, family, fashion, favorableness, feather, felicity, fellowship, fettle, fiat, file, file for, final instructions, find, find against, find for, finding, fitness, fitting, fix, folk, followers, following, footing, force, form, formation, formulation, fraternal order, fraternity, garter, gear, genotype, gens, genus, give an order, give the word, glossology, gold star, good condition, goodness, govern, grace, grade, grand cordon, group, grouping, guide, guild, guise, handle, harmonize, harmony, head, head up, heading, health, heavy demand, hest, hierarchize, hierarchy, holy orders, house, ilk, imperative, importance, impose, imposition, impost, improper, in disorder, in disrepair, in order, in order to, indecorous, indent, index, induction, injunction, inoperative, insistent demand, installation, institution, instruct, instruction, instructions, integrity, investiture, ism, issue a command, issue a writ, issue an ultimatum, kaput, kidney, kilter, kin, kind, kingdom, kinship group, knighthood, label, law, law and order, lawfulness, lay out, layout, lead, lead on, league, level, levy, line, line of action, line up, lineage, lines, lineup, list, lodge, logical sequence, magnitude, major orders, make, make a demand, make a request, make a requisition, make application, make the rules, manage, mandate, maneuver, manipulate, manner, manner of working, marshal, marshaling, mastermind, matriclan, matter, means, measure, measuredness, medal, medallion, meetness, method, methodize, methodology, military medal, minor orders, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus operandi, moiety, nation, naturalism, naturalness, nature, naturism, nearness, neat, neatness, needed, neighborhood, niceness, nomenclature, nomination, nonnegotiable demand, normalcy, normality, normalize, normalness, not cricket, notice, nuclear family, officer, offshoot, on the blink, on the fritz, onomastics, onomatology, opportuneness, ordain, ordainment, order about, order of succession, order up, orderedness, ordering, orderliness, orderly, orders, ordinance, ordination, organization, organize, orismology, ornament, out of commission, out of order, out of place, out of whack, pacify, party, pass judgment, pass sentence, patriclan, pattern, peace, peace and quiet, peacefulness, pecking order, people, permission, persuasion, phratria, phratry, phyle, phylum, pigeonhole, place, place an order, place-names, place-naming, placement, plan, plant kingdom, pleasure, polyonymy, position, posteriority, postposition, power structure, practice, precedence, precedent, precept, predicament, preferment, prepared, prescribe, prescript, prescription, presentation, probity, procedure, proceeding, proceedings, process, procession, proclaim, proclamation, prognosis, progression, prolongation, promulgate, pronounce, pronounce judgment, pronounce on, pronouncement, pronunciamento, properness, proportion, propriety, proximity, pull the strings, purchase, put, put in for, put in order, put in requisition, put in shape, put to rights, quarterback, quiet, quiet life, quietness, quietude, race, range, rank, rate, rating, reading in, ready, realism, rectification, rectitude, red ribbon, reduce to order, regiment, regimentation, regularity, regularize, regulate, regulation, religious order, repair, report, request, require, required, requirement, requisition, reserve, resolution, restfulness, return a verdict, rhythm, riband, ribbon, right, rightness, rotation, routine, routinize, row, rubric, rule, ruling, run, rush, rush order, say the word, scale, school, screw, seasonableness, secret society, sect, sectarism, section, seemliness, segment, sentence, sept, sequel, sequence, serenity, series, service medal, set, set in order, set to rights, set up, set-up, settlement, setup, shape, shipshape, shot, sisterhood, skipper, so that, social class, society, sodality, sorority, sort, sort out, special order, species, sphere, stage, standardize, standing, star, state of affairs, station, status, statute, stem, stirps, stock, straighten out, straighten up, strain, stratum, streamline, stripe, structure, structuring, style, subcaste, subclass, subdivide, subdivision, subfamily, subgenus, subgroup, subjunction, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, succession, successiveness, suffixation, suitability, suitable, suitableness, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superspecies, sweetness, symmetry, syntax, system, systematics, systematization, systematize, systemization, tabulate, tack, take command, take the lead, tax, taxing, taxonomy, teaching, technique, tell, terminology, the drill, the how, tidiness, tidy, timeliness, title, to, tone, toponymy, totem, train, tranquilize, tranquillity, tribe, tribute, trim, trinomialism, tune, type, ukase, ultimatum, uncalled-for, uniformity, union, unorganized, unseemly, unsnarl, unsuitable, uprightness, utter a judgment, variety, verdict, version, vicinity, war medal, warn, warning, way, wear the pants, whip into shape, whistle for, wholesomeness, will, wise, wish, word, word of command
Etymology
From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ored(h)- (“to arrange”), of unknown origin. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”).
Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˈɔːdə/, SAMPA: /"O:d@/
- (GenAm) IPA: /ˈɔɹdɚ/, SAMPA: /"Ord@`/
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Audio (US) noicon (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(r)də(r)
- Hyphenation: or‧der
Translations
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Swedish
Noun
Order c.
Pronunciation
Declension
Related terms
- arresteringsorder
- dagorder
- förhållningsorder
- häktningsorder
- kabinettsorder
- kontraorder
- köporder
- kundorder
- orden
- orderbok
- ordergivning
- ordervägran
- ordna
- ordning
- postorder
- säljorder
- skyddsorder
- stallorder
- stororder
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