order
NOUN:
1. an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
2. a command of a court or judge.
3. the disposition of things following one after another, as in space or time; succession or sequence:
The names were listed in alphabetical order.
4. a condition in which each thing is properly disposed with reference to other things and to its purpose; methodical or harmonious arrangement:
You must try to give order to your life.
5. formal disposition or array:
the order of the troops.
6. proper, satisfactory, or working condition.
7. state or condition generally:
His financial affairs were in good order.
8. conformity or obedience to law or established authority; absence of disturbance, riot, revolt, unruliness, etc.:
A police officer was there to maintain order.
9. customary mode of procedure; established practice or usage.
10. the customary or prescribed mode of proceeding in debates or the like, or in the conduct of deliberative or legislative bodies, public meetings, etc.:
parliamentary rules of order.
11. prevailing course or arrangement of things; established system or regime:
The old order is changing.
12. conformity to this.
13. a direction or commission to make, provide, or furnish something:
The salesclerk will take your order.
14. any class, kind, or sort, as of persons or things, distinguished from others by nature or character:
talents of a high order.
15. a rank, grade, or class of persons in a community.
16. a group or body of persons of the same profession, occupation, or pursuits:
the clerical order.
17. a body or society of persons living by common consent under the same religious, moral, or social regulations.
18. a state in which all components or elements are arranged logically, comprehensibly, or naturally.
19. an arrangement or disposition of things in succession; sequence:
alphabetical order.
20. an established or customary method or state, esp of society
21. a peaceful or harmonious condition of society:
order reigned in the streets.
22. (often plural) a class, rank, or hierarchy:
the lower orders.
23. an instruction that must be obeyed; command.
24. a procedure followed by an assembly, meeting, etc.
25. (capital when part of a name) a body of people united in a particular aim or purpose.
26. a group of people holding a specific honor for service or merit, conferred on them by a sovereign or state.
27. the insignia of such a group.
28. a group of people united in a formal way.
29. a rank, class, or special group in a community or society.
30. a class of persons or things grouped according to quality, value, or natural characteristics.
31. rank, level:
a statesman of the first order.
32. category, class:
in emergencies of this order. —R. B. Westerfield.
33. the arrangement or sequence of objects or of events in time:
listed the items in order of importance; the batting order.
34. the number of times differentiation is applied successively:
derivatives of higher order.
35. a sociopolitical system:
was opposed to changes in the established order.
36. a particular sphere or aspect of a sociopolitical system:
the present economic order.
37. a regular or harmonious arrangement:
the order of nature.
38. the customary mode of procedure especially in debate:
point of order.
39. the state of peace, freedom from confused or unruly behavior, and respect for law or proper authority:
promised to restore law and order.
40. a specific rule, regulation, or authoritative direction; command.
41. state or condition especially with regard to functioning or repair:
things were in terrible order.
42. a proper, orderly, or functioning condition:
their passports were in order: the phone is out of order.
43. order of the day.
Examples:
They ordered everyone out of the house; The soldiers were ordered back to the base. —Merriam-Webster.
in law:
a decision or direction of a court or judge entered on the court record but not included in the final judgment:
The judge ordered a new trial.
of goods, commodities, payment:
1. a quantity of goods or items purchased or sold:
The druggist is sending the order right over.
2. a written direction to pay money or deliver goods, given by a person legally entitled to dispose of it:
delivery order; exchange order.
3. a commission or instruction to produce or supply something in return for payment.
4. the commodity produced or supplied.
(as modifier):
order form.
5. a written direction to pay money to someone.
6. a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods or to perform work.
7. goods or items bought or sold.
of the military:
1. a command or notice issued by a military organization or a military commander to troops, sailors, etc.
2. "the order," the dress, equipment, or formation directed for a particular purpose or undertaking:
drill order; battle order.
3. a military decoration.
of knights, fraternity:
1. a society or fraternity of knights, of combined military and monastic character, as, in the Middle Ages, the Knights Templars.
2. a modern organization or society more or less resembling the knightly orders:
fraternal orders.
3. History. a society of knights constituted as a fraternity, such as the Knights Templars.
4. a fraternal society:
the Masonic Order.
of angels:
any of the nine grades of angels in medieval angelology. Compare angel.
in ecclesiastical, Christian, Jewish, or other religious sense:
1. any of the degrees or grades of clerical office. Compare major order, minor order.
2. the visible structures essential or desirable to the nature of the church, involving especially ministry, polity, and sacraments.
3. a monastic society or fraternity:
the Franciscan order.
4. a prescribed form of divine service or of administration of a rite or ceremony.
5. the service itself.
6 Also called "religious order," (usually capital) a group of persons who bind themselves by vows in order to devote themselves to the pursuit of religious aims.
7. the sacrament by which bishops, priests, etc, have their offices conferred upon them.
8. any of the degrees into which the ministry is divided.
9. the office of an ordained Christian minister.
10. a form of Christian Church service prescribed to be used on specific occasions.
11. Judaism. one of the six sections of the Mishna or the corresponding tractates of the Talmud.
12. a community under a religious rule—especially, one requiring members to take solemn vows.
13. a badge or medal of such a society.
14. any of the several grades of the Christian ministry.
15. a prescribed form of a religious service; rite.
in grammar:
1. the arrangement of the elements of a construction in a particular sequence, as the placing of John before the verb and of George after it in John saw George.
2. the hierarchy of grammatical rules applying to a construction.
3. the rank of immediate constituents.
in mathematics:
1. degree, as in algebra.
2. the number of rows or columns of a square matrix or determinant.
3. the number of times a function has been differentiated to produce a given derivative:
a second order derivative.
4. the number of elements of a given group.
5. the smallest positive integer such that a given element in a group raised to that integer equals the identity.
6. the least positive integer n such that permuting a given set n times under a given permutation results in the set in its original form.
7. to arrange (the elements of a set) so that if one element precedes another, it cannot be preceded by the other or by elements that the other precedes.
8. the number of times a function must be differentiated to obtain a given derivative.
9. the order of the highest derivative in a differential equation.
10. the number of rows or columns in a determinant or square matrix.
11. the number of members of a finite group.
12. short for "order of magnitude".
13. a sequential arrangement of mathematical elements.
14. degree.
15. of a differential equation; the order of the derivative of highest order.
16. the number of columns or rows or columns and rows in a magic square, determinant, or matrix:
the order of a matrix with 2 rows and 3 columns is 2 by 3.
17. the number of elements in a finite mathematical group.
in biology:
1. the usual major subdivision of a class or subclass in the classification of organisms, consisting of several families.
2. any of the taxonomic groups into which a class is divided and which contains one or more families:
Carnivora, Primates, and Rodentia are three orders of the class Mammalia.
3. the classification lower than a class and higher than a family. Dogs and cats belong to the order of carnivores; human beings, monkeys, and apes belong to the order of primates. Flies and mosquitoes belong to the same order; so do birch trees and oak trees.
See Linnean classification.*
in architecture, or of buildings:
1. any arrangement of columns with an entablature.
2. any of five such arrangements typical of classical architecture, including the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders invented by the Greeks and adapted by the Romans, the Tuscan order, invented by the Romans, and the Composite order, first named during the Renaissance.
3. any of several concentric rings composing an arch, especially when each projects beyond the one below.
4. any of the five major classical styles of architecture classified by the style of columns and entablatures used. See also Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, composite.
5. any style of architecture.
6. a style of building.
7. a type of column and entablature forming the unit of a style.
See illustration at Merriam-Webster.*
in taxonomy:
1. a taxonomic category of organisms ranking above a family and below a class.
2. a group of organisms ranking above a family and below a class.
3. a category of taxonomic classification ranking above the family and below the class.
4. the broadest category in soil classification.
in British sense:
1. a special honor or rank conferred by a sovereign upon a person for distinguished achievement.
2. the insignia worn by such persons.
in chiefly British sense:
a pass for admission to a theater, museum, or the like.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English ordre (noun), ordren (v., derivative of the noun) < Old French ordre (noun) < Latin ordin- (stem of ordō) row, rank, regular arrangement. British dictionary: C13: from Old French ordre, from Latin ordō. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Verb: 13th century. Noun: 13th century. History and Etymology: Verb: Middle English, from ordre, noun. Noun: Middle English, from Anglo-French ordre, from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin ordin-, ordo ecclesiastical order, from Latin, arrangement, group, class; akin to Latin ordiri to lay the warp, begin. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Updated: 30 August 2020 {9:42 AM}
1. an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
2. a command of a court or judge.
3. the disposition of things following one after another, as in space or time; succession or sequence:
The names were listed in alphabetical order.
4. a condition in which each thing is properly disposed with reference to other things and to its purpose; methodical or harmonious arrangement:
You must try to give order to your life.
5. formal disposition or array:
the order of the troops.
6. proper, satisfactory, or working condition.
7. state or condition generally:
His financial affairs were in good order.
8. conformity or obedience to law or established authority; absence of disturbance, riot, revolt, unruliness, etc.:
A police officer was there to maintain order.
9. customary mode of procedure; established practice or usage.
10. the customary or prescribed mode of proceeding in debates or the like, or in the conduct of deliberative or legislative bodies, public meetings, etc.:
parliamentary rules of order.
11. prevailing course or arrangement of things; established system or regime:
The old order is changing.
12. conformity to this.
13. a direction or commission to make, provide, or furnish something:
The salesclerk will take your order.
14. any class, kind, or sort, as of persons or things, distinguished from others by nature or character:
talents of a high order.
15. a rank, grade, or class of persons in a community.
16. a group or body of persons of the same profession, occupation, or pursuits:
the clerical order.
17. a body or society of persons living by common consent under the same religious, moral, or social regulations.
18. a state in which all components or elements are arranged logically, comprehensibly, or naturally.
19. an arrangement or disposition of things in succession; sequence:
alphabetical order.
20. an established or customary method or state, esp of society
21. a peaceful or harmonious condition of society:
order reigned in the streets.
22. (often plural) a class, rank, or hierarchy:
the lower orders.
23. an instruction that must be obeyed; command.
24. a procedure followed by an assembly, meeting, etc.
25. (capital when part of a name) a body of people united in a particular aim or purpose.
26. a group of people holding a specific honor for service or merit, conferred on them by a sovereign or state.
27. the insignia of such a group.
28. a group of people united in a formal way.
29. a rank, class, or special group in a community or society.
30. a class of persons or things grouped according to quality, value, or natural characteristics.
31. rank, level:
a statesman of the first order.
32. category, class:
in emergencies of this order. —R. B. Westerfield.
33. the arrangement or sequence of objects or of events in time:
listed the items in order of importance; the batting order.
34. the number of times differentiation is applied successively:
derivatives of higher order.
35. a sociopolitical system:
was opposed to changes in the established order.
36. a particular sphere or aspect of a sociopolitical system:
the present economic order.
37. a regular or harmonious arrangement:
the order of nature.
38. the customary mode of procedure especially in debate:
point of order.
39. the state of peace, freedom from confused or unruly behavior, and respect for law or proper authority:
promised to restore law and order.
40. a specific rule, regulation, or authoritative direction; command.
41. state or condition especially with regard to functioning or repair:
things were in terrible order.
42. a proper, orderly, or functioning condition:
their passports were in order: the phone is out of order.
43. order of the day.
Examples:
They ordered everyone out of the house; The soldiers were ordered back to the base. —Merriam-Webster.
in law:
a decision or direction of a court or judge entered on the court record but not included in the final judgment:
The judge ordered a new trial.
of goods, commodities, payment:
1. a quantity of goods or items purchased or sold:
The druggist is sending the order right over.
2. a written direction to pay money or deliver goods, given by a person legally entitled to dispose of it:
delivery order; exchange order.
3. a commission or instruction to produce or supply something in return for payment.
4. the commodity produced or supplied.
(as modifier):
order form.
5. a written direction to pay money to someone.
6. a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods or to perform work.
7. goods or items bought or sold.
of the military:
1. a command or notice issued by a military organization or a military commander to troops, sailors, etc.
2. "the order," the dress, equipment, or formation directed for a particular purpose or undertaking:
drill order; battle order.
3. a military decoration.
of knights, fraternity:
1. a society or fraternity of knights, of combined military and monastic character, as, in the Middle Ages, the Knights Templars.
2. a modern organization or society more or less resembling the knightly orders:
fraternal orders.
3. History. a society of knights constituted as a fraternity, such as the Knights Templars.
4. a fraternal society:
the Masonic Order.
of angels:
any of the nine grades of angels in medieval angelology. Compare angel.
in ecclesiastical, Christian, Jewish, or other religious sense:
1. any of the degrees or grades of clerical office. Compare major order, minor order.
2. the visible structures essential or desirable to the nature of the church, involving especially ministry, polity, and sacraments.
3. a monastic society or fraternity:
the Franciscan order.
4. a prescribed form of divine service or of administration of a rite or ceremony.
5. the service itself.
6 Also called "religious order," (usually capital) a group of persons who bind themselves by vows in order to devote themselves to the pursuit of religious aims.
7. the sacrament by which bishops, priests, etc, have their offices conferred upon them.
8. any of the degrees into which the ministry is divided.
9. the office of an ordained Christian minister.
10. a form of Christian Church service prescribed to be used on specific occasions.
11. Judaism. one of the six sections of the Mishna or the corresponding tractates of the Talmud.
12. a community under a religious rule—especially, one requiring members to take solemn vows.
13. a badge or medal of such a society.
14. any of the several grades of the Christian ministry.
15. a prescribed form of a religious service; rite.
in grammar:
1. the arrangement of the elements of a construction in a particular sequence, as the placing of John before the verb and of George after it in John saw George.
2. the hierarchy of grammatical rules applying to a construction.
3. the rank of immediate constituents.
in mathematics:
1. degree, as in algebra.
2. the number of rows or columns of a square matrix or determinant.
3. the number of times a function has been differentiated to produce a given derivative:
a second order derivative.
4. the number of elements of a given group.
5. the smallest positive integer such that a given element in a group raised to that integer equals the identity.
6. the least positive integer n such that permuting a given set n times under a given permutation results in the set in its original form.
7. to arrange (the elements of a set) so that if one element precedes another, it cannot be preceded by the other or by elements that the other precedes.
8. the number of times a function must be differentiated to obtain a given derivative.
9. the order of the highest derivative in a differential equation.
10. the number of rows or columns in a determinant or square matrix.
11. the number of members of a finite group.
12. short for "order of magnitude".
13. a sequential arrangement of mathematical elements.
14. degree.
15. of a differential equation; the order of the derivative of highest order.
16. the number of columns or rows or columns and rows in a magic square, determinant, or matrix:
the order of a matrix with 2 rows and 3 columns is 2 by 3.
17. the number of elements in a finite mathematical group.
in biology:
1. the usual major subdivision of a class or subclass in the classification of organisms, consisting of several families.
2. any of the taxonomic groups into which a class is divided and which contains one or more families:
Carnivora, Primates, and Rodentia are three orders of the class Mammalia.
3. the classification lower than a class and higher than a family. Dogs and cats belong to the order of carnivores; human beings, monkeys, and apes belong to the order of primates. Flies and mosquitoes belong to the same order; so do birch trees and oak trees.
See Linnean classification.*
in architecture, or of buildings:
1. any arrangement of columns with an entablature.
2. any of five such arrangements typical of classical architecture, including the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders invented by the Greeks and adapted by the Romans, the Tuscan order, invented by the Romans, and the Composite order, first named during the Renaissance.
3. any of several concentric rings composing an arch, especially when each projects beyond the one below.
4. any of the five major classical styles of architecture classified by the style of columns and entablatures used. See also Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, composite.
5. any style of architecture.
6. a style of building.
7. a type of column and entablature forming the unit of a style.
See illustration at Merriam-Webster.*
in taxonomy:
1. a taxonomic category of organisms ranking above a family and below a class.
2. a group of organisms ranking above a family and below a class.
3. a category of taxonomic classification ranking above the family and below the class.
4. the broadest category in soil classification.
in British sense:
1. a special honor or rank conferred by a sovereign upon a person for distinguished achievement.
2. the insignia worn by such persons.
in chiefly British sense:
a pass for admission to a theater, museum, or the like.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English ordre (noun), ordren (v., derivative of the noun) < Old French ordre (noun) < Latin ordin- (stem of ordō) row, rank, regular arrangement. British dictionary: C13: from Old French ordre, from Latin ordō. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Verb: 13th century. Noun: 13th century. History and Etymology: Verb: Middle English, from ordre, noun. Noun: Middle English, from Anglo-French ordre, from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin ordin-, ordo ecclesiastical order, from Latin, arrangement, group, class; akin to Latin ordiri to lay the warp, begin. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Updated: 30 August 2020 {9:42 AM}