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order   (TTS Sound)

The noun order has 15 senses

• 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")


• 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")


• order -- (established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order")


• ordering, order, ordination -- (logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation")


• orderliness, order -- (a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order")


• 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")


• 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")


• club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order -- (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")


• order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure -- (a body of rules followed by an assembly)


• 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")


• order, monastic order -- (a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict")


• order -- ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families)


• 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")


• 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)


• order, ordering -- (the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list")

The verb order has 9 senses

• order, tell, enjoin, say -- (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")


• order -- (make a request for something; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage")


• order, prescribe, dictate -- (issue commands or orders for)


• regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern -- (bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate")


• order -- (bring order to or into; "Order these files")


• order -- (place in a certain order; "order the photos chronologically")


• ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order -- (appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church")


• arrange, set up, put, order -- (arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times")


• rate, rank, range, order, grade, place -- (assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide")