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Words people most associate with “order”:

  1. law,
  2. chaos,
  3. court,
  4. food,
  5. command

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Noun (15 meanings)

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

order

Example:
  • “the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London”
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types of order:
  • marching orders (noun) - an order from a superior officer for troops to depart
  • summons (noun) - an order to appear in person at a given place and time
  • word (noun) - a verbal command for action
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2. a degree in a continuum of size or quantity.

order, order of magnitude

Examples:
  • “it was on the order of a mile”,
  • “an explosion of a low order of magnitude”
order is a type of:
  • magnitude (noun) - the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
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3. established customary state (especially of society).

order

Examples:
  • “order ruled in the streets”,
  • “law and order”
order is the opposite of:
  • disorder (noun) - a disturbance of the peace or of public order
order is a type of:
  • state (noun) - the way something is with respect to its main attributes
types of order:
  • civil order, polity (noun) - the form of government of a social organization
  • harmony, concord, concordance (noun) - a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds)
  • peace (noun) - the state prevailing during the absence of war
  • rule of law (noun) - a state of order in which events conform to the law
  • stability (noun) - a stable order (especially of society)
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4. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements.

ordering, order, ordination

Example:
  • “we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation”
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  • arrangement (noun) - an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit
types of order:
  • bacteria order (noun) - an order of bacteria
  • genetic code (noun) - the ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells
  • genome (noun) - the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism
  • series (noun) - similar things placed in order or happening one after another
  • word order (noun) - the order of words in a text
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  • to arrange, set up, put, order (verb) - arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
  • to order (verb) - place in a certain order
  • to order (verb) - bring order to or into

5. a condition of regular or proper arrangement.

orderliness, order

Examples:
  • “he put his desk in order”,
  • “the machine is now in working order”
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6. a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).

decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript

Example:
  • “a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there”
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  • act, enactment (noun) - a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
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  • bull, papal bull (noun) - a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
  • consent decree (noun) - an agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court
  • curfew (noun) - an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited
  • decree nisi (noun) - a decree issued on a first petition for divorce
  • imperial decree (noun) - a decree issued by a sovereign ruler
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7. a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities.

order, purchase order

Example:
  • “IBM received an order for a hundred computers”
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  • credit order, bill-me order (noun) - an order that is received without payment
  • indent (noun) - an order for goods to be exported or imported
  • mail order (noun) - a purchase negotiated by mail
  • market order (noun) - an order to a broker to sell or buy stocks or commodities at the prevailing market price
  • production order (noun) - an order that initiates the manufacturing process
  • reorder (noun) - a repeated order for the same merchandise
  • stop order, stop-loss order (noun) - an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level
  • stop payment (noun) - a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check
order is derivationally related to:
  • to order (verb) - make a request for something

8. a formal association of people with similar interests.

club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order

Examples:
  • “he joined a golf club”,
  • “they formed a small lunch society”,
  • “men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today”
order is a type of:
  • association (noun) - a formal organization of people or groups of people
types of order:
  • athenaeum, atheneum (noun) - a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning
  • bookclub (noun) - a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices
  • chapter (noun) - a local branch of some fraternity or association
  • chess club (noun) - a club of people to play chess
  • country club (noun) - a suburban club for recreation and socializing
  • fraternity, frat (noun) - a social club for male undergraduates
  • glee club (noun) - a club organized to sing together
  • golf club (noun) - a club of people to play golf
  • hunt, hunt club (noun) - an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
  • investors club (noun) - a club of small investors who buy and sell securities jointly
  • jockey club (noun) - a club to promote and regulate horse racing
  • racket club (noun) - club for players of racket sports
  • rowing club (noun) - a club for rowers
  • service club (noun) - a club of professional or business people organized for their coordination and active in public services
  • slate club (noun) - a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas)
  • sorority (noun) - a social club for female undergraduates
  • turnverein (noun) - a club of tumblers or gymnasts
  • yacht club, boat club (noun) - club that promotes and supports yachting and boating
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9. a body of rules followed by an assembly.

order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure

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  • closure, cloture, gag rule, gag law (noun) - a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
  • interpellation (noun) - (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy
  • point of order (noun) - a question as to whether the current proceedings are allowed by parliamentary procedure
  • previous question (noun) - a motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly
  • standing order (noun) - a rule of order permanently in force
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  • proposer, mover (noun) - (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion

10. (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy.

Holy Order, Order

Example:
  • “theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order”
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  • status, position (noun) - the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
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  • acolyte (noun) - someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service
  • anagnost (noun) - 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 (noun) - a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches
  • doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius (noun) - the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
  • exorcist (noun) - one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
  • lector, reader (noun) - someone who reads the lessons in a church service
  • priest (noun) - a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites
  • subdeacon (noun) - a clergyman an order below deacon

11. a group of person living under a religious rule.

order, monastic order

Example:
  • “the order of Saint Benedict”
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  • Franciscan order (noun) - a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in the 13th century
  • Society of Jesus, Jesuit order (noun) - 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

12. (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families.

order

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  • class (noun) - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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  • family (noun) - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
  • suborder (noun) - (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order
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13. a request for something to be made, supplied, or served.

order

Examples:
  • “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”
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  • short order (noun) - an order for food that can be prepared quickly
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  • to order (verb) - make a request for something

14. (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.

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  • architecture (noun) - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings

15. the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement.

order, ordering

Example:
  • “there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list”
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  • organization, organisation (noun) - the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically
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Verb (9 meanings)

1. give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.

to order, tell, enjoin, say

Examples:
  • “I said to him to go home”,
  • “She ordered him to do the shopping”,
  • “The mother told the child to get dressed”
to order is a way to:
  • to request (verb) - ask (a person) to do something
ways to order:
  • to call, send for (verb) - order, request, or command to come
  • to command, require (verb) - make someone do something
  • to direct (verb) - command with authority
  • to instruct (verb) - give instructions or directions for some task
  • to warn (verb) - ask to go away
to order is derivationally related to:
  • decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript (noun) - a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
  • injunction (noun) - a formal command or admonition
  • order (noun) - (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed

2. make a request for something.

to order

Examples:
  • “Order me some flowers”,
  • “order a work stoppage”
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ways to order:
  • to call (verb) - order or request or give a command for
  • to commission (verb) - place an order for
  • to place (verb) - to arrange for
  • to reorder (verb) - make a new request to be supplied with
  • to wish (verb) - order politely
to order is derivationally related to:
  • order, ordering (noun) - the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
  • order, purchase order (noun) - a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
  • order (noun) - a request for something to be made, supplied, or served
  • orderer (noun) - someone who places an order to buy

3. issue commands or orders for.

to order, prescribe, dictate

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to order is derivationally related to:
  • order (noun) - (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
  • prescription (noun) - directions prescribed beforehand
  • prescriptive, normative (adjective) - pertaining to giving directives or rules

4. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.

to regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern

Examples:
  • “We cannot regulate the way people dress”,
  • “This town likes to regulate”
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  • government (noun) - (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed
  • governor, regulator (noun) - a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
  • order (noun) - established customary state (especially of society)
  • regulation, regulating (noun) - the act of controlling or directing according to rule
  • regulation, regularization, regularisation (noun) - the act of bringing to uniformity
  • regulator (noun) - an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest
  • rule, regulation (noun) - a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior

5. bring order to or into.

to order

Example:
  • “Order these files”
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  • to arrange, set up (verb) - put into a proper or systematic order
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6. place in a certain order.

to order

Example:
  • “order the photos chronologically”
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  • to arrange, set up (verb) - put into a proper or systematic order
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7. appoint to a clerical posts.

to ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order

Example:
  • “he was ordained in the Church”
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8. arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events.

to arrange, set up, put, order

Examples:
  • “arrange my schedule”,
  • “set up one's life”,
  • “I put these memories with those of bygone times”
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  • to organize, organise (verb) - cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
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9. assign a rank or rating to.

to rate, rank, range, order, grade, place

Examples:
  • “how would you rank these students?”,
  • “The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide”
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  • to downgrade (verb) - rate lower
  • to prioritize, prioritise (verb) - assign a priority to
  • to reorder (verb) - assign a new order to
  • to seed (verb) - distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
  • to sequence (verb) - arrange in a sequence
  • to shortlist (verb) - put someone or something on a short list
  • to subordinate (verb) - rank or order as less important or consider of less value
  • to superordinate (verb) - place in a superior order or rank
  • to upgrade (verb) - rate higher
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  • gradation, graduation (noun) - the act of arranging in grades
  • gradation, step (noun) - relative position in a graded series
  • grade, level, tier (noun) - a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
  • grader (noun) - a judge who assigns grades to something
  • mark, grade, score (noun) - a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)