Order

More definitions of "order":

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

• (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): 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"

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

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

• (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): (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): (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): 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): 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word order:

“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)

“... very little achievement is required in order to pity another man’s shortcomings.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)