order

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
2. (countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
3. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
4. (countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
5. (countable) A command.
6. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
7. (countable) 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. (countable) An association of knights.
9. (countable, uncountable) Any group of people with common interests.
10. (countable) 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. (countable) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
12. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
14. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
16. (countable, uncountable) Scale: size or scope.
17. (countable, uncountable) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
18. (countable, uncountable) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
19. (countable, uncountable) The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
20. (countable, uncountable) 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).
21. (countable, uncountable) The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
22. (countable, uncountable) A partially ordered set.
23. (countable, uncountable) The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
24. (countable, uncountable) The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
25. (countable, uncountable) The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
26. (countable, uncountable) A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.

Verb

1. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
2. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
3. (transitive) To issue a command to; to charge.
4. (transitive) 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.

Synonyms

command

sequence

direct

instruction

decree

tell

arrange

arrangement

system

direction

rule

rank

commission

instruct

mandate

bid

dictate

request

regularity

class

charge

organize

method

directive

law

ordain

enjoin

govern

commandment

warrant

regulation

edict

series

injunction

grade

reserve

prescribe

manner

sort

succession

row

ordering

discipline

demand

regulate

appoint

orderliness

society

book

📖

control

Translations

ordre

orden

ordine

ordem

Ordnung

orde

ordinare

Befehl

commander

ordenar

ordonner

Auftrag

Bestellung

Anordnung

mandar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɔːdə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: ordre

Cognate with Latin: ōrdior

In summary

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 !

Only the write order needs to be consistent , thus the name " pipelined ".

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

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