order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.də/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.dɚ/
ipa: [ˈɔɹ.ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈɔːdə(r)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: orders
form: ordre
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.
Senses: examples: text: put the children in age order
text: It's arranged in order of frequency
glosses: Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
examples: text: In these situations we find the Genesee slate, the Tully limestone and the upper part of the Hamilton group, each one in its order disappearing beneath the lake level as we proceed southward.
ref: 1843, New York (State). Natural History Survey, Geology of New-York: Comprising the survey of the fourth geological ...:
text: In the latter portion of this period, the country was assailed by famine and pestilence - — a fearful visitation which will be noticed hereafter in its order of date, and of which it would be out of place to say more at present.
ref: 1856, George Nicholls, A History of the Irish Poor Law: In Connexion with the Condition of the People:
text: 1897, T. L. Heath (translator), Eutocius of Ascalon, Extract from a commentary by Eutocius, quoted in 1897 [CUP], T. L. Heath (editor), The Works of Archimedes, 2002, Dover, unnumbered page,
His attempt I shall also give in its order.
text: This narrative must be discussed later on, in its order.
ref: 1915, Edwin Abbott Abbott, the fourfold gospel the proclamation of the new kingdom, page 298:
text: The latter comes into play only as we examine each word in its order in the line.
ref: 1996, John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell, John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837, page xxxi:
text: Hasn't it been shown that the Hebrew letter “w” is equivalent to the number 6, due to its order in the alphabet, he asked?
ref: 2013, Leah Sarat, Fire in the Canyon: Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream:
text: Because Professor Soler told me that you had to investigate things step by step, that you had to find a thread to follow and follow it, and find everything out in its order.
ref: 2014, Julia Navarro, Tell Me Who I Am:
glosses: A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
examples: text: The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
glosses: The state of being well arranged.
examples: text: to preserve order in a community or an assembly
text: Order in the court!
text: He's the only person I know who's going to vote at all. Most people have given up on politicians. After all, politicians have been promising to return us to the glory, wealth, and order of the twentieth century ever since I can remember.
ref: 1993, Octavia Butler, chapter 3, in The Parable of the Sower:
glosses: Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
examples: text: give an order
text: his inability to follow orders
text: 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.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 30, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: John Hedley was Locomotive Foreman at Beattock. He was in bed, but they roused him, and he gave orders for one of his pilot engines to go up to the summit, get Mitchell's train, and take it to Carlisle.
ref: 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
glosses: A command.
examples: text: make an order
text: receive an online order for the new range of sunglasses
text: I ordered a burger and some fries.
text: A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.
ref: 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
examples: text: St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
glosses: A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
examples: text: the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
glosses: An association of knights.
glosses: Any group of people with common interests.
examples: text: The Order of Propitious Clouds is a civilian order that can be awarded to Taiwan citizens or foreign nationals. It is divided into a total of nine "classes" or grades, of which the Special Grand Cordon is the highest.
Pelosi said she was particularly honored to receive the award from Tsai -- "a woman president in one of the freest societies in the world."
ref: 2022 August 3, Matthew Mazzetta, “President Tsai awards state honor to visiting U.S. House speaker”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2022:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The magnolia and nutmeg families belong to the order Magnoliales.
text: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
examples: text: the higher or lower orders of society
text: talent of a high order
text: They are in equal order to their several ends.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
text: Various orders various ensigns bear.
ref: 1726, George Granville, The British Enchanters:
text: […] which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: There have been many major and minor orders in the history of Christianity: the order of virgins, of deacons, priests, lectors, acolytes, porters, catechists, widows, etc.
text: to take orders or holy orders means to be ordained a deacon or priest
topics: Christianity
glosses: An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
topics: architecture
glosses: 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.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
examples: text: on another order
topics: engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Scale: size or scope.
examples: text: a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
examples: text: 1911 [Cambridge University Press], William Burnside, Theory of Groups of Finite Order, 2nd Edition, Reprint, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2004, page 222,
In this case, the conjugate set contains n(n − 1)/x(x − 1) distinct sub-groups of order m, and H is therefore self-conjugate in a group K of order x(x − l)m.
text: For various reasons it turns out to be better to enlarge this set of invariants to include suitable normalizers of subgroups of odd prime order.
ref: 2000, Michael Aschbacher, Finite Group Theory, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 260:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
raw_tags: of a set or algebraic structure
examples: text: The object of this note is to observe that it is possible to calculate the order of an element A of G#61;#92;mathit#123;GL#125;(d,q) on average using O(d³#92;mathsf#123;log#125;#92;q) field operations, assuming that qⁱ-1 has been factorised for i#92;led.
ref: 1997, Frank Celler, C. R. Leedham-Green, “Calculating the Order of an Invertible Matrix”, in Larry Finkelstein, William M. Kantor, editors, Groups and Computation II, American Mathematical Society, page 55:
text: 1999, A. Ehrenfeucht, T. Harju, G. Rozenberg, The Theory of 2-structures, World Scientific, page 15,
If Δ is a finite group, its cardinality is called the order of Δ. The order of an element a∈Δ is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer n such that aⁿ=1_Δ. The second case of the following result is known as Cauchy's theorem.
Theorem 1.10 Let Δ be a finite group.
(i) The order of an element a∈Δ divides the order |Δ| of the group.
(ii) If a prime number p divides |Δ|, then there exists an element a∈Δ of order p.
text: 2010, A. R. Vasishta, A. K. Vasishta, Modern Algebra, Krishna Prakashan Media, 60th Edition, page 180,
Since in a finite group the order of an element must be a divisor of the order of the group, therefore o (a) cannot be 3 and so we must have o (a)=4=the order of the group G.
topics: group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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).
raw_tags: of an element g of a group G
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
raw_tags: of a graph
topics: mathematics
order-theory
sciences
glosses: A partially ordered set.
topics: mathematics
order-theory
sciences
glosses: The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
examples: text: The monomial x²ʸ³ᶻ is of order 2#43;3#43;1#61;6.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
raw_tags: of a monomial
examples: text: The quadratic polynomial ax²#43;bx#43;c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2 when a is nonzero.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: degree
glosses: The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
raw_tags: of a polynomial in one variable
examples: text: I then walked to Cochrane's & got an order on Sir Charles Asgill for my money.
ref: 1763, James Boswell, edited by Gordon Turnbull, London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published 2014, page 233:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
Synonyms: topics: taxonomy
biology
natural-sciences
word: ordo
sense: group
word: association
sense: group
word: brotherhood
sense: group
word: league
sense: group
word: sisterhood
sense: group
word: society
Hypernyms: denomination
Hyponyms: alphabetical order
antisocial behaviour order
Anton Pillar order
Anton Piller order
apple-pie order
back order
back-to-work order
banker's order
boil order
bond order
bottom order
change order
chronological order
closed order
close order
compulsory purchase order
control order
correct order
court order
data order
day order
Dehornoy order
doctor's orders
Egli-Milner order
enclosed order
execute order
executive order
fraternal birth order
gagging order
gag order
global order
go order
Groceries Order
heavy marching order
hospital order
insertion order
interim order
Jew World Order
job order
last orders
lexicographic order
limit order
linear order
lower order
mail order
market order
Mary Bell order
matched order
mendicant order
middle order
military order
minor order
miscellaneous charge order
moral order
movement control order
New World Order
new world order
Norwich Pharmacal order
numerical order
open order
order consolidation
Order of Australia
order of battle
order of business
Order of Canada
order of council
order of knighthood
order of magnitude
order of operations
order of precedence
order of service
Order of St Michael and St George
order of succession
order of symmetry
Order of the Bath
order of the boot
order of the day
Order of the Garter
Order of the Thistle
p-adic order
partial order
payment order
peace order
pecking order
pick-by-order
pick-to-order
Plotkin order
postal money order
postal money-order
post office order
post-office order
program order
protective order
purchase order
regular order
religious order
restraining order
reverse order
rules-based order
running order
sell order
short order
side order
single order picking
social order
Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order
speed order
standing order
stay-at-home order
stiffening order
stop loss order
stop-loss order
stop order
stroke order
suppression order
tab order
tall order
temporary restraining order
top order
total order
train order
word order
working order
work order
world order
z-order
Derived terms: word: Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles
word: backorder
word: bankruptcy order
word: bit order
word: blanket order
word: bring to order
word: byte order
word: call to order
word: cancelled to order
word: close-order drill
word: close order drill
word: come to order
word: counterorder
word: delivery order
word: eigenorder
word: engine order telegraph
word: established order
word: extended order drill
word: extended-order drill
word: extreme risk protection order
word: final order cutoff
word: first-order
word: first order of the day
word: first order stream
word: foreorder
word: fraternal birth-order effect
word: gavel to order
word: get one's affairs in order
word: get one's house in order
word: higher-order
word: high order bit
word: hold-departure order
word: hyper-order
word: infra-order
word: in order
word: in-order
word: in order for
word: in order that
word: in order to
word: in rag order
word: in short order
word: international order
word: keep order
word: law-and-order
word: law and order
word: made-to-order story
word: mail-order bride
word: metaorder
word: misorder
word: monadic second-order logic
word: multi-order
word: multi-order picking
word: oblique order
word: one's house in order
word: on order
word: on the order of
word: order arms
word: orderboard
word: order book
word: order form
word: order in
word: order-in-council
word: order in council
word: orderite
word: orderless
word: order mark
word: order-mark
word: order of worship
word: order paper
word: order picking
word: order processing
word: order statistic tree
word: order stream
word: order streaming
word: order to show cause
word: order tree
word: order type
word: order up
word: Orderville
word: out of order
word: out-of-order
word: overorder
word: place an order
word: point of order
word: postorder
word: pre-order
word: production order
word: put one's affairs in order
word: put one's household in order
word: put one's house in order
word: quasiorder
word: respect order
word: Robert's Rules of Order
word: rule of order
word: sales order
word: second-order
word: second order cybernetics
word: second order stream
word: semiorder
word: set one's affairs in order
word: set one's house in order
word: short-order chef
word: special order sale
word: superorder
word: tall order
word: third order
word: third-order
word: third order stream
word: time order
word: to order
word: underorder
word: well-order
word: whole life order
word: zero-order design
word: zero-order hold
word: zero-order logic
word: z-order
word: ℝ-order tree
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: magnorder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: gigaorder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: hyperorder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: hypoorder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: megaorder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: nanorder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: pseudoorder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: superorder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: grandorder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: mirorder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: suborder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: infraorder
sense: taxonomic ranks
word: parvorder