order

Meaning

Noun

1. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
2. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
3. The state of being well arranged.
4. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
5. A command.
6. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
7. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
8. An association of knights.
9. Any group of people with common interests.
10. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
11. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
12. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
13. An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
14. The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
15. The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
16. A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
17. The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
18. The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
19. The smallest positive natural number n such that (denoting the group operation multiplicatively) gⁿ is the identity element of G, if such an n exists; if no such n exists the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
20. The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
21. A partially ordered set.
22. The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
23. The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
24. The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
25. A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.

Verb

1. To set in some sort of order.
2. To arrange, set in proper order.
3. To issue a command to.
4. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
5. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

Hyphenated as

or‧der

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɔːdə/

Etymology

From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-.
Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo.

Sentences

Other people , according to this account , began to order the same as Sandwich !

Although they did order two paintings of " The Morosini Banner ".

The order was administered and awarded the Ministry of Veterans and War Victims .