order - 25 definitions |
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| 1. | order -- (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" |
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| 2. | order -- 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" |
| synonyms: order of magnitude |
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| 3. | order -- established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" |
| antonyms: disorder -- a disturbance of the peace or of public order |
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| 4. | ordering -- logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" |
| synonyms: ordering, ordination |
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| 5. | orderliness -- a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order" |
| synonyms: orderliness |
| antonyms: disorderliness -- a condition in which things are not in their expected places; "the files are in complete disorder" , disorderliness -- a condition in which things are not in their expected places; "the files are in complete disorder" |
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| 6. | decree -- 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" |
| synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, rescript |
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| 7. | order -- 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" |
| synonyms: purchase order |
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| 8. | club -- 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" |
| synonyms: club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge |
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| 9. | order -- a body of rules followed by an assembly |
| synonyms: rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure |
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| 10. | Holy Order -- (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" |
| synonyms: Holy Order, Order |
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| 11. | order -- a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict" |
| synonyms: monastic order |
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| 12. | order -- (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families |
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| 13. | order -- 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" |
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| 14. | order -- (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 |
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| 15. | order -- the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" |
| synonyms: ordering |
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| - verb |
| 16. | order -- 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" |
| synonyms: tell, enjoin, say |
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| 17. | order -- make a request for something; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage" |
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| 18. | order -- issue commands or orders for |
| synonyms: prescribe, dictate |
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| 19. | regulate -- bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate" |
| synonyms: regulate, regularize, regularise, govern |
| antonyms: deregulate -- lift the regulations on |
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| 20. | order -- bring order to or into; "Order these files" |
| antonyms: disorder -- bring disorder to |
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| 21. | order -- place in a certain order; "order the photos chronologically" |
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| 22. | ordain -- appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" |
| synonyms: ordain, consecrate, ordinate |
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| 23. | arrange -- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" |
| synonyms: arrange, set up, put |
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| 24. | rate -- assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" |
| synonyms: rate, rank, range, grade, place |
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| 25. | order, orders -- to give a command or instruction to |
| synonyms: orders, ordered, reorder, ordering, unordered |
| Source:OWL 2 Web Ontology Language |
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