order
awr der
- n (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London - n a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
it was on the order of a mile
an explosion of a low order of magnitude - n established customary state (especially of society)
order ruled in the streets
law and order - n logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation - n a condition of regular or proper arrangement
he put his desk in order
the machine is now in working order - n a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there - n a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
IBM received an order for a hundred computers - n a formal association of people with similar interests
men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today - n a body of rules followed by an assembly
- n (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy
- n a group of person living under a religious rule
the order of Saint Benedict - n (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
- n a request for something to be made, supplied, or served
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 - n (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
- n the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list - v give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
She ordered him to do the shopping - v make a request for something
order a work stoppage - v issue commands or orders for
- v bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- v bring order to or into
- v place in a certain order
order the photos chronologically - v appoint to a clerical posts
- v arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- v assign a rank or rating to
- An Islamic court has ordered an unmarried couple to be caned for trying to have sex in a car in the latest of a series of harsh punishments for Muslims in Malaysia, a lawyer said .
- Most of the order's nuns and brothers are South Asian, which helped the candidacy of Sister Nirmala.
- Alone in the master bedroom, his order in the march of death still unknown, was the master himself: 65-year-old Marshall Herff Applewhite.