order
Noun
(uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
(uncountable) 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
(countable) A command.
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(countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
* {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation
, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.}}
(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) An association of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
any group of people with common interests.
(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.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
, title= In the News
, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist)
, passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
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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
- talent of a high order
* Jeremy Taylor
- They are in equal order to their several ends.
* Granville
- Various orders various ensigns bear.
* Hawthorne
- which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.
An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
- to take orders”’, or to take ”’holy orders , that is, to enter some grade of the ministry
(architecture) 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.
(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 partially ordered set.
(mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
Quotations
* 1611 — 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. 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.
Derived terms
* alphabetical order
* antisocial behaviour order
* Anton Piller order
* apple-pie order
* back-to-work order
* bottom order
* court order
* doctor’s orders
* Doric order
* executive order
* first order stream
* fraternal birth order
* gagging order
* Groceries Order
* in order / in order to
* in short order
* infra-order
* interim order
* last orders
* law-and-order
* Mary Bell order
* mendicant order
* middle order
* moral order
* New World Order
* on the order of
* order in council
* Order of Australia
* order of magnitude
* order of operations
* order of precedence
* order of the day
* order stream
* out of order
* partial order
* pecking order
* place an order
* put one’s house in order
* purchase order
* religious order
* restraining order
* second order stream
* short order
* standing order
* stop-loss order
* superorder
* tall order
* third order stream
* total order
* well-order
* working order
* z-order
Verb
(en verb )
To set in some sort of order.
To arrange, set in proper order.
To issue a command to.
- to order troops to advance
To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
- to order groceries
To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
* Book of Common Prayer
- persons presented to be ordered deacons
Synonyms
* (arrange into some sort of order) sort, rank
Derived terms
* just what the doctor ordered
* made-to-order
* mail-order
* order of magnitude
* order out
* well-order
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