order

UK /ˈɔː.də/US /ˈoɹ.dɚ/

noun 27
verb 5
forms 8
phrases 11

noun27

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the way that things are placed or follow one another, for example by size or time
- It's arranged in order of frequency
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A command.
- his inability to follow orders
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A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. — 2012
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The goods requested.
- Your order should arrive within two days.
- The waiter brought our orders to the table, but forgot the cutlery.
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The state of being well arranged.
- The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
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Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
- Order in the court!
The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
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A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
- St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
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An association of knights.
- the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
Any group of people with common interests.
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A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
- The magnolia and nutmeg families belong to the order Magnoliales.
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A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
- the higher or lower orders of society
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An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
- There have been many major and minor orders in the history of Christianity: the order of virgins, of deacons, priests, lectors, acolytes, porters, catechists, widows, etc.
- to take orders or holy orders means to be ordained a deacon or priest
Scale: size or scope.
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A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- In these situations we find the Genesee slate, the Tully limestone and the upper part of the Hamilton group, each one in its order disappearing beneath the lake level as we proceed southward. — 1843
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.
A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
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A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
- I then walked to Cochrane's & got an order on Sir Charles Asgill for my money. — 1763
The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
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The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
- In this case, the conjugate set contains n(n − 1)/x(x − 1) distinct sub-groups of order m, and H is therefore self-conjugate in a group K of order x(x − l)m. — 1911
The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
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The smallest positive natural number n such that (denoting the group operation multiplicatively) gⁿ is the identity element of G, if such an n exists; if no such n exists the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
- Since in a finite group the order of an element must be a divisor of the order of the group, therefore o (a) cannot be 3 and so we must have o (a)=4=the order of the group G. — 2010
A partially ordered set.
The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.

verb5

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To issue a command to; to charge.
- to order troops to advance
- He ordered me to leave.
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To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
- You can now order most products to be delivered to your home.
- to order groceries
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To set in some sort of order.
- We need to order them alphabetically.
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To arrange, set in proper order.
- The books in the shelf need ordering.
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To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
- persons presented to be ordered deacons — 1549

forms

order'd · ordered · orderedst · ordering · ordereth · orders · testaments · orderest

Phrases with order