Order

More definitions of "order":

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

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

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

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

• (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.

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

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

• (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

• (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

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

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

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

• (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): (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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word order:

“That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.”
—Freda Adler (b. 1934)

“When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

“I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.”
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)