| order | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. order | (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" |
| ~ plural, plural form | the form of a word that is used to denote more than one. |
| ~ bid, bidding, command, dictation | an authoritative direction or instruction to do something. |
| ~ marching orders | an order from a superior officer for troops to depart. |
| ~ summons | an order to appear in person at a given place and time. |
| ~ word | a verbal command for action.; "when I give the word, charge!" |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. order, order of magnitude | a degree in a continuum of size or quantity.; "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude" |
| ~ magnitude | the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small).; "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea" |
| n. (state) | 3. order | established customary state (especially of society).; "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| ~ civil order, polity | the form of government of a social organization. |
| ~ rule of law | a state of order in which events conform to the law. |
| ~ tranquillity, quiet, tranquility | an untroubled state; free from disturbances. |
| ~ concordance, concord, harmony | a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole. |
| ~ stability | a stable order (especially of society). |
| ~ peace | the state prevailing during the absence of war. |
| n. (group) | 4. order, ordering, ordination | logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements.; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" |
| ~ bacteria order | an order of bacteria. |
| ~ word order | the order of words in a text. |
| ~ arrangement | an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging.; "a flower arrangement" |
| ~ genetic code | the ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells. |
| ~ genome | the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism.; "the human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base pairs" |
| ~ series | similar things placed in order or happening one after another.; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies" |
| n. (state) | 5. order, orderliness | a condition of regular or proper arrangement.; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order" |
| ~ condition, status | a state at a particular time.; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" |
| ~ spit and polish | careful attention to order and appearance (as in the military). |
| ~ kelter, kilter | in working order.; "out of kilter"; "in good kilter" |
| ~ tidiness | the habit of being tidy. |
| n. (communication) | 6. decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript | a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).; "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" |
| ~ act, enactment | a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body. |
| ~ consent decree | an agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court; for example, a company might agree to stop certain questionable practices without admitting guilt. |
| ~ curfew | an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited. |
| ~ decree nisi | a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date. |
| ~ imperial decree | a decree issued by a sovereign ruler. |
| ~ judicial separation, legal separation | a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart. |
| ~ programma | an edict that has been publicly posted. |
| ~ ban, proscription, prohibition | a decree that prohibits something. |
| ~ stay | a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted.; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court" |
| ~ papal bull, bull | a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla). |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| n. (communication) | 7. order, purchase order | a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities.; "IBM received an order for a hundred computers" |
| ~ commercial document, commercial instrument | a document of or relating to commerce. |
| ~ bill-me order, credit order | an order that is received without payment; requires billing at a later date. |
| ~ indent | an order for goods to be exported or imported. |
| ~ market order | an order to a broker to sell or buy stocks or commodities at the prevailing market price. |
| ~ production order | an order that initiates the manufacturing process. |
| ~ reorder | a repeated order for the same merchandise.; "he's the one who sends out all the new orders and reorders" |
| ~ stop-loss order, stop order | an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level. |
| ~ stop payment | a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check. |
| ~ mail order | a purchase negotiated by mail. |
| n. (group) | 8. club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social club, society | a formal association of people with similar interests.; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" |
| ~ association | a formal organization of people or groups of people.; "he joined the Modern Language Association" |
| ~ athenaeum, atheneum | a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning. |
| ~ bookclub | a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices. |
| ~ chapter | a local branch of some fraternity or association.; "he joined the Atlanta chapter" |
| ~ chess club | a club of people to play chess. |
| ~ country club | a suburban club for recreation and socializing. |
| ~ frat, fraternity | a social club for male undergraduates. |
| ~ glee club | a club organized to sing together. |
| ~ golf club | a club of people to play golf. |
| ~ hunt club, hunt | an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport. |
| ~ investors club | a club of small investors who buy and sell securities jointly. |
| ~ jockey club | a club to promote and regulate horse racing. |
| ~ racket club | club for players of racket sports. |
| ~ rowing club | a club for rowers. |
| ~ slate club | a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas). |
| ~ sorority | a social club for female undergraduates. |
| ~ turnverein | a club of tumblers or gymnasts. |
| ~ boat club, yacht club | club that promotes and supports yachting and boating. |
| ~ service club | a club of professional or business people organized for their coordination and active in public services. |
| ~ club member | someone who is a member of a club. |
| n. (communication) | 9. order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order | a body of rules followed by an assembly. |
| ~ prescript, rule | prescribed guide for conduct or action. |
| ~ interpellation | (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy. |
| ~ standing order | a rule of order permanently in force. |
| ~ cloture, gag law, gag rule, closure | a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body. |
| ~ point of order | a question as to whether the current proceedings are allowed by parliamentary procedure. |
| ~ previous question | a motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly. |
| ~ mover, proposer | (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion. |
| ~ robert's rules of order | a book of rules for presiding over a meeting; written by Henry M. Martin in 1876 and subsequently updated through many editions. |
| n. (state) | 10. holy order, order | (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy.; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order" |
| ~ acolyte | someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches. |
| ~ anagnost | a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church). |
| ~ deacon | a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders. |
| ~ ostiarius, ostiary, doorkeeper | the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church. |
| ~ exorcist | one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church. |
| ~ lector, reader | someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| ~ priest | a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders. |
| ~ subdeacon | a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church. |
| ~ status, position | the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society.; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" |
| n. (group) | 11. monastic order, order | a group of person living under a religious rule.; "the order of Saint Benedict" |
| ~ augustinian order | any of several monastic orders observing a rule derived from the writings of St. Augustine. |
| ~ benedictine order, order of saint benedict | a Roman Catholic monastic order founded in the 6th century; noted for liturgical worship and for scholarly activities. |
| ~ carmelite order, order of our lady of mount carmel | a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the 12th century. |
| ~ carthusian order | an austere contemplative Roman Catholic order founded by St. Bruno in 1084. |
| ~ dominican order | a Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century. |
| ~ franciscan order | a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in the 13th century. |
| ~ jesuit order, society of jesus | a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship. |
| ~ religious order, religious sect, sect | a subdivision of a larger religious group. |
| n. (group) | 12. order | (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families. |
| ~ animal order | the order of animals. |
| ~ protoctist order | the order of protoctists. |
| ~ biological science, biology | the science that studies living organisms. |
| ~ taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group | animal or plant group having natural relations. |
| ~ class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders. |
| ~ suborder | (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order. |
| ~ family | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera.; "sharks belong to the fish family" |
| ~ plant order | the order of plants. |
| ~ fungus order | the order of fungi. |
| n. (communication) | 13. order | a request for something to be made, supplied, or served.; "I gave the waiter my order"; "the company's products were in such demand that they got more orders than their call center could handle" |
| ~ asking, request | the verbal act of requesting. |
| ~ short order | an order for food that can be prepared quickly. |
| n. (attribute) | 14. 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. |
| ~ dorian order, doric order | the oldest and simplest of the Greek orders and the only one that normally has no base. |
| ~ ionian order, ionic order | the second Greek order; the capital is decorated with spiral scrolls. |
| ~ corinthian order | the last Greek order; similar to the Ionic order except the capital is decorated with carvings of acanthus leaves. |
| ~ composite order | a Roman order that combines the Corinthian acanthus leaves with the spiral scrolls of the Ionic order. |
| ~ tuscan order | a Roman order that resembles the Doric order but without a fluted shaft. |
| ~ artistic style, idiom | the style of a particular artist or school or movement.; "an imaginative orchestral idiom" |
| ~ architecture | the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" |
| n. (act) | 15. order, ordering | the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement.; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" |
| ~ organisation, organization | the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically.; "his organization of the work force was very efficient" |
| ~ rank order | an arrangement according to rank. |
| ~ grading, scaling | the act of arranging in a graduated series. |
| ~ succession, sequence | the action of following in order.; "he played the trumps in sequence" |
| ~ layout | the act of laying out (as by making plans for something). |
| ~ alphabetisation, alphabetization | the act of putting in alphabetical order. |
| v. (communication) | 16. enjoin, order, say, tell | give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" |
| ~ direct | command with authority.; "He directed the children to do their homework" |
| ~ instruct | give instructions or directions for some task.; "She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation" |
| ~ command, require | make someone do something. |
| ~ request | ask (a person) to do something.; "She asked him to be here at noon"; "I requested that she type the entire manuscript" |
| ~ send for, call | order, request, or command to come.; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!" |
| ~ warn | ask to go away.; "The old man warned the children off his property" |
| v. (communication) | 17. order | make a request for something.; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage" |
| ~ reorder | make a new request to be supplied with.; "The store had to reorder the popular CD several times" |
| ~ place | to arrange for.; "place a phone call"; "place a bet" |
| ~ call for, request, bespeak, quest | express the need or desire for; ask for.; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" |
| ~ call | order or request or give a command for.; "The unions called a general strike for Sunday" |
| ~ wish | order politely; express a wish for. |
| ~ commission | place an order for. |
| v. (communication) | 18. dictate, order, prescribe | issue commands or orders for. |
| ~ inflict, impose, bring down, visit | impose something unpleasant.; "The principal visited his rage on the students" |
| ~ mandate | make mandatory.; "the new director of the school board mandated regular tests" |
| v. (social) | 19. govern, order, regularise, regularize, regulate | bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate" |
| ~ standardize, standardise | cause to conform to standard or norm.; "The weights and measures were standardized" |
| ~ decide, make up one's mind, determine | reach, make, or come to a decision about something.; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations" |
| ~ district, zone | regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns. |
| v. (change) | 20. order | bring order to or into.; "Order these files" |
| ~ clean up, neaten, square away, tidy, tidy up, straighten, straighten out | put (things or places) in order.; "Tidy up your room!" |
| ~ systematise, systematize, systemise, systemize | arrange according to a system or reduce to a system.; "systematize our scientific knowledge" |
| ~ collate | to assemble in proper sequence.; "collate the papers" |
| ~ unsnarl, disentangle, straighten out | extricate from entanglement.; "Can you disentangle the cord?" |
| ~ arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order.; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" |
| v. (change) | 21. order | place in a certain order.; "order the photos chronologically" |
| ~ arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order.; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" |
| v. (social) | 22. consecrate, ordain, order, ordinate | appoint to a clerical posts.; "he was ordained in the Church" |
| ~ enthrone, vest, invest | provide with power and authority.; "They vested the council with special rights" |
| v. (cognition) | 23. arrange, order, put, set up | arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events.; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" |
| ~ contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize | arrange or represent events so that they co-occur.; "synchronize biblical events" |
| ~ phrase | divide, combine, or mark into phrases.; "phrase a musical passage" |
| ~ organize, organise | cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea. |
| v. (cognition) | 24. grade, order, place, range, rank, rate | assign a rank or rating to.; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" |
| ~ superordinate | place in a superior order or rank.; "These two notions are superordinated to a third" |
| ~ shortlist | put someone or something on a short list. |
| ~ seed | distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds. |
| ~ reorder | assign a new order to. |
| ~ subordinate | rank or order as less important or consider of less value.; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools" |
| ~ prioritise, prioritize | assign a priority to.; "we have too many things to do and must prioritize" |
| ~ sequence | arrange in a sequence. |
| ~ downgrade | rate lower; lower in value or esteem. |
| ~ upgrade | rate higher; raise in value or esteem. |
| ~ pass judgment, evaluate, judge | form a critical opinion of.; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?"; "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" |
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