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Order
ˈɔːdə
- the arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method
"I filed the cards in alphabetical order"
- a state in which everything is in its correct or appropriate place
"she tried to put her shattered thoughts into some semblance of order"
- a state in which the laws and rules regulating public behaviour are observed and authority is obeyed
"the army was deployed to keep order"
- the prescribed or established procedure followed by a meeting, legislative assembly, debate, or court of law
"the meeting was called to order"
- a stated form of liturgical service, or of administration of a rite, prescribed by ecclesiastical authority
- an authoritative command or instruction
"he was not going to take orders from a mere administrator"
- a verbal or written request for something to be made, supplied, or served
"the firm has won an order for six tankers"
- a thing made, supplied, or served as a result of an order
"he would deliver special orders for the Sunday dinner"
- a written direction of a court or judge
"she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order"
- a written direction to pay money or deliver property
- a particular social, political, or economic system
"they were dedicated to overthrowing the established order"
- a social class
"the upper social orders"
- a rank in the Christian ministry, especially that of bishop, priest, or deacon
- the rank of a member of the clergy or an ordained minister of the Church
"he took priest's orders"
- any of the nine grades of angelic beings in the celestial hierarchy as formulated by Pseudo-Dionysius
- a society of monks, nuns, or friars living under the same religious, moral, and social regulations and discipline
"the Franciscan Order"
- a society of knights bound by a common rule of life and having a combined military and monastic character
"the Templars were also known as the Order of Christ"
- an institution founded by a monarch along the lines of a medieval crusading monastic order for the purpose of honouring meritorious conduct
- the insignia worn by members of an order of honour or merit
- a Masonic or similar fraternity
- the quality or nature of something
"poetry of the highest order"
- the overall state or condition of something
"the house had only just been vacated and was in good order"
- a principal taxonomic category that ranks below class and above family
"the higher orders of insects"
- any of the five classical styles of architecture (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite) based on the proportions of columns and the style of their decoration
- any style of architecture subject to uniform established proportions
- equipment or uniform for a specified purpose or of a specified type
"the platoon changed from drill order into PT kit"
- the position in which a rifle is held after ordering arms
- the degree of complexity of an equation, expression, etc., as denoted by an ordinal number
- the number of differentiations required to reach the highest derivative in a differential equation
- the number of elements in a finite group
- the number of rows or columns in a square matrix
- give an authoritative instruction to do something
"she ordered me to leave"
instruct command direct enjoin give the order to give the command to tell require charge adjure decree ordain rule legislate lay down dictate prescribe pronounce determine- continually tell someone to do things in an overbearing way
"she resented being ordered about"
- command (something) to be done or (someone) to be treated in a particular way
"he ordered the anchor dropped"
- request (something) to be made, supplied, or served
"my mate ordered the tickets last week"
request apply for send away/off for write off for put in an order for place an order for requisition - arrange (something) in a methodical way
"all entries are ordered by date"