order
English
Alternative forms
- ordre (obsolete)
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 *ored(h)- (“to arrange”), of unknown origin. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”).
Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˈɔːdə/, X-SAMPA: /"O:d@/
- (GenAm) IPA: /ˈɔɹdɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"Ord@`/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(r)də(r)
- Hyphenation: or‧der
Noun
order (countable and uncountable; plural orders)
- (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
- (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
- (countable) A command.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 30, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
- It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 30, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
- (countable) A request for some product or service.
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page Technology Quarterly p.3:
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page Technology Quarterly p.3:
- (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; as, the Jesuit Order.
- (countable) A society of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
- (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.
- (countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank
- Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
- (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
- (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.
- (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
- (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
- (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph
- (order theory) A partially ordered set.
- (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partically ordered set.
- (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
Quotations
- 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
- Donald Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching, Addison-Wesley, 1973, chapter 8:
- Since only two of our tape drives were in working order, I was ordered to order more tape units in short order, in order to order the data several orders of magnitude faster.
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Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun "order"
Translations
arrangement, disposition
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good arrangement
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command
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request for some product or service
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religious group
society of knights
awarded decoration
biology: taxonomical classification
cricket: sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat
electronics: power of polynomial function in a circuit’s block
Chemistry - a number of a chemical reaction
graph theory: number of vertices in a graph
relation on a partially ordered set
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highest exponent in a polynomial
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Verb
order (third-person singular simple present orders, present participle ordering, simple past and past participle ordered)
- To set in some sort of order.
- To arrange, set in proper order.
- To issue a command.
- To request some product or service.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to set in (any) order
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to set in (a good) order
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to issue a command
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to request some product or service
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Pronunciation
Noun
order c
Declension
Declension of order
Related terms
- arresteringsorder
- dagorder
- förhållningsorder
- häktningsorder
- kabinettsorder
- kontraorder
- köporder
- kundorder
- orden
- orderbok
- ordergivning
- ordervägran
- ordna
- ordning
- postorder
- säljorder
- skyddsorder
- stallorder
- stororder
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