Order

More definitions of "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): Putting in order.
  Synonyms: ordering

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

• (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 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

Famous quotes containing the word order:

“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)

“A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which puts us upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”
—Jane Nelson (20th century)