Order

More definitions of "order":

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

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

• (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

Famous quotes containing the word order:

“All grandeur, all power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.... And a man who is puzzled and wonders thinks himself ignorant ...; therefore since they philosophized in order to escape from ignorance, evidently they were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

“In England if something goes wrong—say, if one finds a skunk in the garden—he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.”
—Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)