order.
Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
Meaning & usage
Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
put the children in age order
It's arranged in order of frequency
A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
The state of being well arranged.
The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
to preserve order in a community or an assembly
Order in the court!
A command.
give an order
his inability to follow orders
A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
make an order
place an online order for the new range of sunglasses
The goods requested.
Your order should arrive within two days.
The waiter brought our orders to the table, but forgot the cutlery.
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.
An association of knights.
the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
Any group of people with common interests.
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 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.
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
talent of a high order
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
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.
The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
Scale: size or scope.
on another order
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
The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
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).
The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
A partially ordered set.
The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
The monomial x²ʸ³ᶻ is of order 2#43;3#43;1#61;6.
The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
The quadratic polynomial ax²#43;bx#43;c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2 when a is nonzero.
A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der. Proto-Italic *ordōder. Latin ōrdinem Old French ordneder. Middle English ordre English order 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 *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo. Compare typologically Russian поря́док (porjádok) (akin to ряд (rjad)).
To set in some sort of order.
We need to order them alphabetically.
To arrange, set in proper order.
The books in the shelf need ordering.
To issue a command to; to charge.
to order troops to advance
He ordered me to leave.
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
To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der. Proto-Italic *ordōder. Latin ōrdinem Old French ordneder. Middle English ordre English order 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 *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo. Compare typologically Russian поря́док (porjádok) (akin to ряд (rjad)).
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