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Order   /ˈɔrdər/   Listen
Order

noun
1.
(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed.
2.
A degree in a continuum of size or quantity.  Synonym: order of magnitude.  "An explosion of a low order of magnitude"
3.
Established customary state (especially of society).  "Law and order"
4.
Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements.  Synonyms: ordering, ordination.
5.
A condition of regular or proper arrangement.  Synonym: orderliness.  "The machine is now in working order"
6.
A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).  Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, rescript.
7.
A commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities.  Synonym: purchase order.
8.
A formal association of people with similar interests.  Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, social club, society.  "They formed a small lunch society" , "Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
9.
A body of rules followed by an assembly.  Synonyms: parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order.
10.
(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy.  Synonym: Holy Order.
11.
A group of person living under a religious rule.  Synonym: monastic order.
12.
(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families.
13.
A request for something to be made, supplied, or served.  "The company's products were in such demand that they got more orders than their call center could handle"
14.
(architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans.
15.
The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement.  Synonym: ordering.
verb
(past & past part. ordered; pres. part. ordering)
1.
Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.  Synonyms: enjoin, say, tell.  "She ordered him to do the shopping" , "The mother told the child to get dressed"
2.
Make a request for something.  "Order a work stoppage"
3.
Issue commands or orders for.  Synonyms: dictate, prescribe.
4.
Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.  Synonyms: govern, regularise, regularize, regulate.  "This town likes to regulate"
5.
Bring order to or into.
6.
Place in a certain order.
7.
Appoint to a clerical posts.  Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, ordinate.
8.
Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events.  Synonyms: arrange, put, set up.  "Set up one's life" , "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
9.
Assign a rank or rating to.  Synonyms: grade, place, range, rank, rate.  "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"



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"Order" Quotes from Famous Books



... since the previous evening, had prudently kept aloof; not that he was afraid, but because he did not care to be seen plotting with the Rougons at the critical moment. As a matter of fact, he was burning with curiosity. He had been compelled to shut himself up in order to resist the temptation of hastening to the yellow drawing-room. When the footman came to tell him, in the middle of the night, that there were some gentlemen below asking for him, he could not hold back any longer. He got up and went downstairs ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola
... a heap nearer than the others to letting Miss Woppit know what his exact feelings were. He was a poet of no mean order. What he wrote was printed regularly in Cad Davis' Leadville paper under the head of "Pearls of Pegasus," and all us Red Hoss Mountain folks allowed that next to Willie Pabor of Denver our own Jake Dodsley had more of the afflatus in him than any other living ...
— Second Book of Tales • Eugene Field
... Englishmen who were both ballad-singers and ballad-makers. This was one of the points at issue between those eminent antiquarians, Bishop Percy and Mr. Ritson, in the eighteenth century. Dr. Percy had defined the English minstrels as an "order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sung to the harp the verses which they themselves composed." The inflammable Joseph Ritson, whose love of an honest ballad goes far to excuse him for his lack of gentle demeanor toward the unfaithful ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... persuaded that his next incarnation would enrich the world with something far more stately than the mansion that he at present occupied; something on the Gordon Dane order, he suspected. And it was not too soon to begin laying those unseen foundations—to think the thought that must come before the thing. He was veritably a king, yet for a time must he masquerade as a wage-slave, a serf to Breede, and an inferior of ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson
... itself in due time. The rebels either got what they wanted, or didn't get what they wanted, or changed their minds about wanting it after all, as sometimes happens with Chinese uprisings. Whichever way it was, law and order were finally restored and life resumed itself again on normal lines, although the Tartar City, lying within the Chinese City, was a total wreck. What happened in consequence to the despoiled and dispersed Manchu element is no concern ...
— Civilization - Tales of the Orient • Ellen Newbold La Motte


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