Order

More definitions of "order":

• (verb): Appoint to a clerical posts.
  Synonyms: ordain, consecrate, ordinate

• (verb): Place in a certain order.
  Example: "Order these files"

• (verb): Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc..
  Synonyms: arrange, set up, put

• (noun): A commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities.
  Example: "IBM received an order for a hundred computers"
  Synonyms: purchase order

• (verb): Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.
  Synonyms: regulate, regularize, regularise, govern

• (noun): (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families.

• (noun): A condition of regular or proper arrangement.
  Example: "He put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order"
  Synonyms: orderliness

• (verb): Make a request for something.
  Example: "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"

• (verb): Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.
  Synonyms: tell, enjoin, say

• (noun): Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements.
  Example: "We shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
  Synonyms: ordering, ordination

• (verb): Assign a rank or rating to.
  Synonyms: rate, rank, range, grade, place

• (noun): A body of rules followed by an assembly.
  Synonyms: rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure

• (noun): Putting in order.
  Synonyms: ordering

• (noun): A degree in a continuum of size or quantity.
  Example: "It was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude"
  Synonyms: order of magnitude

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

• (noun): A group of person living under a religious rule.
  Example: "The order of Saint Benedict"
  Synonyms: monastic order

• (verb): Bring order to or into.
  Example: "Order these files"

• (noun): Established customary state (especially of society).
  Example: "Order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"

• (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): A formal association of people with similar interests.
  Example: "Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
  Synonyms: club, society, guild, gild, lodge

• (verb): Issue commands or orders for.
  Synonyms: prescribe, dictate

• (noun): A request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant or bar etc.).
  Example: "I gave the waiter my order"

• (noun): (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy.
  Example: "Theologians still disagree over whether 'bishop' should or should not be a separate order"
  Synonyms: holy order

Famous quotes containing the word order:

“One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.”
—Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)

“People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.—We are happy to regard the one before whom we shine as light.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child within us—i.e., the weak, helpless, dependent creature—in order to become an independent competent adult deserving of respect. When we reencounter this creature in our children, we persecute it with the same measures once used in ourselves.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)