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Definition of 'order'

noun

(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed; "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London"

noun

A degree in a continuum of size or quantity; "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude" [syn: order, order of magnitude]

noun

Established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" [ant: disorder]

noun

Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" [syn: ordering, order, ordination]

noun

A condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order" [syn: orderliness, order] [ant: disorder, disorderliness]

noun

A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" [syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript]

noun

A commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities; "IBM received an order for a hundred computers" [syn: order, purchase order]

noun

A formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" [syn: club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order]

noun

A body of rules followed by an assembly [syn: order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure]

noun

(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order" [syn: Holy Order, Order]

noun

A group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict" [syn: order, monastic order]

noun

(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families

noun

A request for something to be made, supplied, or served; "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"

noun

(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

noun

The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" [syn: order, ordering]

verb

Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" [syn: order, tell, enjoin, say]

verb

Make a request for something; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"

verb

Issue commands or orders for [syn: order, prescribe, dictate]

verb

Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate" [syn: regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern] [ant: deregulate]

verb

Bring order to or into; "Order these files" [ant: disarray, disorder]

verb

Place in a certain order; "order the photos chronologically"

verb

Appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" [syn: ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order]

verb

Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" [syn: arrange, set up, put, order]

verb

Assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" [syn: rate, rank, range, order, grade, place]

Definition of 'order'

From: GCIDE

Series \Se"ries\, n. [L. series, fr. serere, sertum, to join or bind together; cf. Gr. ??? to fasten, Skr. sarit thread. Cf. Assert, Desert a solitude, Exert, Insert, Seraglio.]
1. A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events. [1913 Webster]
During some years his life a series of triumphs. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
2. (Biol.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. [1913 Webster]
Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. [1913 Webster]
3. (Bot.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. (Math.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series. [1913 Webster]
5. (Elec.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; -- opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be
in series. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
6. (Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Synonyms of 'order'

From: Moby Thesaurus

act on,
action,
adherents,
adjust,
adjustment,
affiliation,
algorithm,
align,
allocation,
allotment,
alphabetize,
alternation,
amendment,
analyze,
animal kingdom,
antonomasia,
apostolic orders,
apply for,
appointment,
apportionment,
appositeness,
approach,
appropriate,
appropriateness,
approximation,
apt,
aptness,
arrange,
arranged,
arrangement,
array,
arraying,
ashram,
ask,
ask for,
association,
assort,
attack,
auspiciousness,
authorization,
award,
bad condition,
balance,
be responsible for,
beauty,
beg leave,
behest,
bespeak,
bid,
bidding,
binomial nomenclature,
biosystematics,
biosystematy,
biotype,
blackmail,
blood,
blue ribbon,
body,
bracket,
branch,
break down,
breed,
briefing,
broken,
broken-down,
Bronze Star Medal,
brood,
brotherhood,
busted,
buy,
call,
call for,
call on,
call the shots,
call the signals,
call upon,
calling,
calm,
calmness,
canonization,
captain,
carry on,
case,
caste,
catalog,
categorization,
categorize,
category,
chain,
challenge,
charge,
church,
claim,
clamor for,
clan,
class,
classification,
classify,
clean,
closeness,
club,
codification,
codify,
collation,
collocation,
colony,
coming after,
command,
commandment,
commission,
commitment,
commonwealth,
commune,
communion,
community,
company,
concinnity,
concord,
condemn,
condemnation,
condition,
conduct,
conferment,
confession,
confraternity,
confrerie,
consecration,
consecution,
consecutiveness,
consideration,
constitution,
continuation,
continuity,
contract for,
contribution,
control,
cool off,
cordon,
cordon bleu,
correct,
correction,
correctitude,
correctness,
country club,
course,
crave,
Croix de Guerre,
cry for,
decide,
decision,
declare,
decoration,
decoration of honor,
decorousness,
decorum,
decree,
degree,
deliverance,
demand,
demand for,
demanded,
deme,
denomination,
deploy,
deployment,
descent,
description,
desire,
determination,
determine,
diagnosis,
dictate,
dictation,
dictum,
digest,
direct,
direct order,
direction,
directions,
directive,
disciples,
discipline,
disordered,
disorganized,
disposal,
dispose,
disposition,
Distinguished Conduct Medal,
Distinguished Flying Cross,
Distinguished Service Cross,
Distinguished Service Medal,
Distinguished Service Order,
Distinguished Unit Citation,
distribution,
divide,
division,
doom,
draft,
drain,
duty,
echelon,
economic class,
edict,
election,
endogamous group,
engage,
engineer,
enjoin,
equilibrium,
estate,
euphony,
exact,
exaction,
expediency,
extended family,
extension,
extent,
extort,
extortion,
extortionate demand,
faction,
faith,
family,
fashion,
favorableness,
feather,
felicity,
fellowship,
fettle,
fiat,
file,
file for,
final instructions,
find,
find against,
find for,
finding,
fitness,
fitting,
fix,
folk,
followers,
following,
footing,
force,
form,
formation,
formulation,
fraternal order,
fraternity,
garter,
gear,
genotype,
gens,
genus,
give an order,
give the word,
glossology,
gold star,
good condition,
goodness,
govern,
grace,
grade,
grand cordon,
group,
grouping,
guide,
guild,
guise,
handle,
harmonize,
harmony,
head,
head up,
heading,
health,
heavy demand,
hest,
hierarchize,
hierarchy,
holy orders,
house,
ilk,
imperative,
importance,
impose,
imposition,
impost,
improper,
in disorder,
in disrepair,
in order,
in order to,
indecorous,
indent,
index,
induction,
injunction,
inoperative,
insistent demand,
installation,
institution,
instruct,
instruction,
instructions,
integrity,
investiture,
ism,
issue a command,
issue a writ,
issue an ultimatum,
kaput,
kidney,
kilter,
kin,
kind,
kingdom,
kinship group,
knighthood,
label,
law,
law and order,
lawfulness,
lay out,
layout,
lead,
lead on,
league,
level,
levy,
line,
line of action,
line up,
lineage,
lines,
lineup,
list,
lodge,
logical sequence,
magnitude,
major orders,
make,
make a demand,
make a request,
make a requisition,
make application,
make the rules,
manage,
mandate,
maneuver,
manipulate,
manner,
manner of working,
marshal,
marshaling,
mastermind,
matriclan,
matter,
means,
measure,
measuredness,
Medaille Militaire,
medal,
medallion,
meetness,
method,
methodize,
methodology,
Military Cross,
military medal,
minor orders,
MO,
mode,
mode of operation,
mode of procedure,
modus operandi,
moiety,
nation,
naturalism,
naturalness,
nature,
naturism,
Navy Cross,
nearness,
neat,
neatness,
needed,
neighborhood,
niceness,
nomenclature,
nomination,
nonnegotiable demand,
normalcy,
normality,
normalize,
normalness,
not cricket,
notice,
nuclear family,
officer,
offshoot,
on the blink,
on the fritz,
onomastics,
onomatology,
opportuneness,
ordain,
ordainment,
order about,
order of succession,
order up,
orderedness,
ordering,
orderliness,
orderly,
orders,
ordinance,
ordination,
organization,
organize,
orismology,
ornament,
out of commission,
out of order,
out of place,
out of whack,
pacify,
party,
pass judgment,
pass sentence,
patriclan,
pattern,
peace,
peace and quiet,
peacefulness,
pecking order,
people,
permission,
persuasion,
phratria,
phratry,
phyle,
phylum,
pigeonhole,
place,
place an order,
place-names,
place-naming,
placement,
plan,
plant kingdom,
pleasure,
polyonymy,
position,
posteriority,
postposition,
power structure,
practice,
precedence,
precedent,
precept,
predicament,
preferment,
prepared,
prescribe,
prescript,
prescription,
presentation,
probity,
procedure,
proceeding,
proceedings,
process,
procession,
proclaim,
proclamation,
prognosis,
progression,
prolongation,
promulgate,
pronounce,
pronounce judgment,
pronounce on,
pronouncement,
pronunciamento,
properness,
proportion,
propriety,
proximity,
pull the strings,
purchase,
put,
put in for,
put in order,
put in requisition,
put in shape,
put to rights,
quarterback,
quiet,
quiet life,
quietness,
quietude,
race,
range,
rank,
rate,
rating,
reading in,
ready,
realism,
rectification,
rectitude,
red ribbon,
reduce to order,
regiment,
regimentation,
regularity,
regularize,
regulate,
regulation,
religious order,
repair,
report,
request,
require,
required,
requirement,
requisition,
reserve,
resolution,
restfulness,
return a verdict,
rhythm,
riband,
ribbon,
right,
rightness,
rotation,
routine,
routinize,
row,
rubric,
rule,
ruling,
run,
rush,
rush order,
say the word,
scale,
school,
screw,
seasonableness,
secret society,
sect,
sectarism,
section,
seemliness,
segment,
sentence,
sept,
sequel,
sequence,
serenity,
series,
service medal,
set,
set in order,
set to rights,
set up,
set-up,
settlement,
setup,
shape,
shipshape,
shot,
sisterhood,
skipper,
so that,
social class,
society,
sodality,
sorority,
sort,
sort out,
special order,
species,
sphere,
stage,
standardize,
standing,
star,
state of affairs,
station,
status,
statute,
stem,
stirps,
stock,
straighten out,
straighten up,
strain,
stratum,
streamline,
stripe,
structure,
structuring,
style,
subcaste,
subclass,
subdivide,
subdivision,
subfamily,
subgenus,
subgroup,
subjunction,
subkingdom,
suborder,
subspecies,
subtribe,
succession,
successiveness,
suffixation,
suitability,
suitable,
suitableness,
superclass,
superfamily,
superorder,
superspecies,
sweetness,
symmetry,
syntax,
system,
systematics,
systematization,
systematize,
systemization,
tabulate,
tack,
take command,
take the lead,
tax,
taxing,
taxonomy,
teaching,
technique,
tell,
terminology,
the drill,
the how,
tidiness,
tidy,
timeliness,
title,
to,
tone,
toponymy,
totem,
train,
tranquilize,
tranquillity,
tribe,
tribute,
trim,
trinomialism,
tune,
type,
ukase,
ultimatum,
uncalled-for,
uniformity,
union,
Unit Citation,
unorganized,
unseemly,
unsnarl,
unsuitable,
uprightness,
utter a judgment,
variety,
verdict,
version,
vicinity,
Victoria Cross,
war medal,
warn,
warning,
way,
wear the pants,
whip into shape,
whistle for,
wholesomeness,
will,
wise,
wish,
word,
word of command

Words containing 'order'

in order,
ordered,
orderer,
ordering,
orderly,
out of order,
to order,
Classicals orders,
General orders,
Holy orders,
In marching order,
Italic order,
Letters of orders,
Mendicant orders,
Military order,
Minor orders,
Money order,
Natural order,
Order of Dannebrog,
Order of the Bath,
Point of order,
Postoffice order,
Roman order,
Special orders,
Standing order,
Stiffening order,
Stop order,
Teutonic order,
Third order,
To call to order,
To enlarge an order,
To set in order,
To take order for,
To take order with,
To take orders,
animal order,
augustinian order,
bacteria order,
batting order,
benedictine order,
call to order,
carmelite order,
carthusian order,
civil order,
close order,
composite order,
corinthian order,
court order,
credit order,
dominican order,
dorian order,
doric order,
extended order,
franciscan order,
fungus order,
gag order,
holy order,
in good order,
in short order,
ionian order,
ionic order,
jesuit order,
large order,
mail order,
marching order,
marching orders,
market order,
monastic order,
open order,
orange order,
order acarina,
order accipitriformes,
order actinaria,
order actiniaria,
order actinomycetales,
order actinomyxidia,
order aepyorniformes,
order agaricales,
order alcyonaria,
order alismales,
order amoebida,
order amoebina,
order amphipoda,
order anacanthini,
order anaspida,
order andreaeales,
order anguilliformes,
order anoplura,
order anostraca,
order anseriformes,
order anthocerotales,
order anura,
order aphyllophorales,
order aplacophora,
order apodes,
order apodiformes,
order apterygiformes,
order arales,
order araneae,
order araneida,
order aristolochiales,
order arms,
order artiodactyla,
order aspergillales,
order auriculariales,
order batoidei,
order batrachia,
order belemnoidea,
order bennettitales,
order berycomorphi,
order blastocladiales,
order book,
order branchiura,
order bryales,
order campanulales,
order caprimulgiformes,
order carnivora,
order caryophyllales,
order casuariiformes,
order casuarinales,
order caudata,
order cestida,
order cetacea,
order charadriiformes,
order charales,
order chelonethida,
order chelonia,
order chiroptera,
order chlorococcales,
order chytridiales,
order ciconiiformes,
order cilioflagellata,
order coccidia,
order code,
order coleoptera,
order collembola,
order columbiformes,
order colymbiformes,
order commelinales,
order coniferales,
order conodonta,
order conodontophorida,
order coraciiformes,
order cordaitales,
order corrodentia,
order crocodilia,
order crocodylia,
order cuculiformes,
order cycadales,
order cycadofilicales,
order cyclostomata,
order cydippea,
order cydippida,
order cydippidea,
order cypriniformes,
order decapoda,
order dermaptera,
order dermoptera,
order diapensiales,
order dicranales,
order dictyoptera,
order dinocerata,
order dinoflagellata,
order dinornithiformes,
order diptera,
order discocephali,
order ebenales,
order edentata,
order embiodea,
order embioptera,
order endomycetales,
order entomophthorales,
order ephemerida,
order ephemeroptera,
order equisetales,
order ericales,
order erysiphales,
order eubacteriales,
order eubryales,
order euphausiacea,
order eurotiales,
order eurypterida,
order exocycloida,
order fagales,
order falconiformes,
order filicales,
order foraminifera,
order form,
order fucales,
order gadiformes,
order galliformes,
order ganoidei,
order gaviiformes,
order gentianales,
order geophilomorpha,
order geraniales,
order ginkgoales,
order gnetales,
order graminales,
order gregarinida,
order gruiformes,
order guttiferales,
order gymnophiona,
order haemosporidia,
order haplosporidia,
order heliozoa,
order helotiales,
order hemiptera,
order heterosomata,
order heterotrichales,
order hymenogastrales,
order hymenoptera,
order hypericales,
order hypermastigina,
order hypocreales,
order hyracoidea,
order ichthyosauria,
order ictodosauria,
order insectivora,
order insessores,
order isoetales,
order isopoda,
order isoptera,
order isospondyli,
order juglandales,
order jungermanniales,
order lagomorpha,
order laminariales,
order lechanorales,
order lepidodendrales,
order lepidoptera,
order lichenales,
order liliales,
order lobata,
order loricata,
order lycoperdales,
order lycopodiales,
order lyginopteridales,
order madreporaria,
order mallophaga,
order malvales,
order mantophasmatodea,
order marattiales,
order marchantiales,
order marsupialia,
order mecoptera,
order moniliales,
order monotremata,
order mucorales,
order musales,
order myaceae,
order mycoplasmatales,
order mycrosporidia,
order myricales,
order myrtales,
order mysidacea,
order myxobacterales,
order myxobacteria,
order myxobacteriales,
order myxosporidia,
order naiadales,
order neuroptera,
order nidulariales,
order notostraca,
order nudibranchia,
order octopoda,
order odonata,
order oedogoniales,
order of business,
order of magnitude,
order of payment,
order of the day,
order oleales,
order ophioglossales,
order opiliones,
order opuntiales,
order orchidales,
order ornithischia,
order orthoptera,
order ostariophysi,
order osteoglossiformes,
order ostracodermi,
order palmales,
order pandanales,
order papaverales,
order paper,
order parietales,
order passeriformes,
order pectinibranchia,
order pediculati,
order pedipalpi,
order pelecaniformes,
order pelycosauria,
order perciformes,
order percomorphi,
order perissodactyla,
order peronosporales,
order pezizales,
order phalangida,
order phallales,
order phasmatodea,
order phasmida,
order pholidota,
order picariae,
order piciformes,
order piperales,
order plantaginales,
order platyctenea,
order plecoptera,
order plectognathi,
order pleuronectiformes,
order plumbaginales,
order podicipediformes,
order podicipitiformes,
order polemoniales,
order polygonales,
order polymastigina,
order polypodiales,
order primates,
order primulales,
order proboscidea,
order procellariiformes,
order proteales,
order protura,
order pseudomonadales,
order pseudoscorpiones,
order pseudoscorpionida,
order psilophytales,
order psilotales,
order psittaciformes,
order psocoptera,
order pterosauria,
order pulmonata,
order pycnogonida,
order radiolaria,
order rajiformes,
order ranales,
order ranunculales,
order raptores,
order rhamnales,
order rheiformes,
order rhoeadales,
order rhynchocephalia,
order rickettsiales,
order rodentia,
order rosales,
order rubiales,
order salicales,
order salientia,
order santalales,
order sapindales,
order saprolegniales,
order sarcosporidia,
order sarraceniales,
order saurischia,
order sauropterygia,
order scandentia,
order sclerodermatales,
order scleroparei,
order scorpionida,
order scrophulariales,
order secotiales,
order selaginellales,
order siluriformes,
order siphonaptera,
order siphonophora,
order sirenia,
order solenichthyes,
order solenogastres,
order spatangoida,
order sphaeriales,
order sphaerocarpales,
order sphagnales,
order sphenisciformes,
order spirochaetales,
order squamata,
order stegocephalia,
order stereospondyli,
order stomatopoda,
order strigiformes,
order struthioniformes,
order synentognathi,
order taxales,
order temnospondyli,
order testacea,
order testudinata,
order testudines,
order tetraodontiformes,
order thecodontia,
order therapsida,
order thymelaeales,
order thysanoptera,
order thysanura,
order tinamiformes,
order torpediniformes,
order tremellales,
order trichoptera,
order trogoniformes,
order tuberales,
order tubulidentata,
order tulostomatales,
order ulvales,
order umbellales,
order uredinales,
order urodella,
order uropygi,
order urticales,
order ustilaginales,
order volvocales,
order xiphosura,
order xyridales,
order zeomorphi,
order zygnemales,
order zygnematales,
ordered series,
orderly sergeant,
pecking order,
plant order,
postal order,
production order,
protoctist order,
purchase order,
rank order,
religious order,
rules of order,
short order,
side order,
take orders,
tall order,
telephone order,
temporal order,
tuscan order,
word order,
Chancellor of the order of the Garter,
First-order,
Postal money order,
The Order of the Visitation of Our Lady,
banning-order,
bill-me order,
cease and desist order,
court-ordered,
distinguished service order,
goods of the first order,
made-to-order,
mail order house,
mail-order,
order mycelia sterilia,
order of saint benedict,
order of the purple heart,
order-chenopodiales,
pseudo first order,
robert's rules of order,
short-order,
well-ordered,
close-order drill,
first-order correlation,
goods of the second and higher orders,
mail-order buying,
order of our lady of mount carmel,
rank-order correlation,
stop-loss order,
Brothers of the Third Order of St Francis,
rank-order correlation coefficient,
Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
The Denticete including the dolphins and sperm whale which have teeth Another suborder Zeuglodontia is extinct The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea but are now made a separate order

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