orders

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    n.

  • (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed

    the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London

  • a degree in a continuum of size or quantity; order of magnitude

    it was on the order of a mile

    an explosion of a low order of magnitude

  • established customary state (especially of society)

    order ruled in the streets

    law and order

  • logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; ordering, ordination

    we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation

  • a condition of regular or proper arrangement; orderliness

    he put his desk in order

    the machine is now in working order

  • a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); decree, edict, fiat, rescript

    a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there

  • a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities; purchase order

    IBM received an order for a hundred computers

  • a formal association of people with similar interests; club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge

    he joined a golf club

    they formed a small lunch society

    men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today

  • a body of rules followed by an assembly; rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure
  • (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; Holy Order, Order

    theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order

  • a group of person living under a religious rule; monastic order

    the order of Saint Benedict

  • (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
  • a request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant or bar etc.)

    I gave the waiter my order

  • (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
  • the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; ordering

    there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list

    v.

  • give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; tell, enjoin, say

    I said to him to go home

    She ordered him to do the shopping

    The mother told the child to get dressed

  • make a request for something

    Order me some flowers

    order a work stoppage

  • issue commands or orders for; prescribe, dictate
  • bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; regulate, regularize, regularise, govern

    We cannot regulate the way people dress

    This town likes to regulate

  • bring order to or into

    Order these files

  • place in a certain order

    order these files

  • appoint to a clerical posts; ordain, consecrate, ordinate

    he was ordained in the Church

  • arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; arrange, set up, put

    arrange my schedule

    set up one's life

    I put these memories with those of bygone times

  • assign a rank or rating to; rate, rank, range, grade, place

    how would you rank these students?

    The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

orders|ordered|ordering
syn.: arrangement bid command condition direction disposition formation instruction manner mode state system way
ant.: disorder