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Meaning of 'order' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Order [ n.]
- Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system
- Of material things, like the books in a library.
- Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.
- Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
- Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
- The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.
- Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
- That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.
- A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
- Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large.
- 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 group or division of men in the same social or other position; also, a distinct character, kind, or sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order.
- A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.
- An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry.
- The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
- An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
- The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
- Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
- To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.
- To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
- To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.
- To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
2 . Order [ v. i.]
- To give orders; to issue commands.

Meaning of 'order' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . order [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
Example in sentence:
  • a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there
Meaning (2):
- a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
Example in sentence:
  • an explosion of a low order of magnitude;
  • it was on the order of a mile
Meaning (3):
- a formal association of people with similar interests
Example in sentence:
  • he joined a golf club;
  • men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today;
  • they formed a small lunch society
Meaning (4):
- a condition of regular or proper arrangement
Example in sentence:
  • he put his desk in order;
  • the machine is now in working order
Meaning (5):
- a request for something to be made, supplied, or served
Example in sentence:
  • 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
Meaning (6):
- a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
Example in sentence:
  • IBM received an order for a hundred computers
Meaning (7):
- established customary state (especially of society)
Example in sentence:
  • law and order;
  • order ruled in the streets
Meaning (8):
- (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
Example in sentence:
  • the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London
Meaning (9):
- a group of person living under a religious rule
Example in sentence:
  • the order of Saint Benedict
Meaning (10):
- (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy
Example in sentence:
  • theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order
Meaning (11):
- the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
Example in sentence:
  • there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list
Meaning (12):
- logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
Example in sentence:
  • we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation
13 . order [ v]
Meaning (13):
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
Example in sentence:
  • arrange my schedule;
  • I put these memories with those of bygone times;
  • set up one's life
Meaning (14):
- appoint to a clerical posts
Example in sentence:
  • he was ordained in the Church
Meaning (15):
- assign a rank or rating to
Example in sentence:
  • how would you rank these students?;
  • The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide
Meaning (16):
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
Example in sentence:
  • I said to him to go home;
  • She ordered him to do the shopping;
  • The mother told the child to get dressed
Meaning (17):
- make a request for something
Example in sentence:
  • order a work stoppage;
  • Order me some flowers
Meaning (18):
- place in a certain order
Example in sentence:
  • order the photos chronologically
Meaning (19):
- bring order to or into
Example in sentence:
  • Order these files
Meaning (20):
- bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
Example in sentence:
  • This town likes to regulate;
  • We cannot regulate the way people dress

Nearby Words:

ord ordain ordainable ordained ordainer ordaining ordainment ordal ordalian ordeal

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