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order

Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.də/

The English word “order” has 20 meanings listed here.

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. The goods requested.
  8. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
  9. An association of knights.
  10. Any group of people with common interests.
  11. 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.
  12. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
  13. 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.
  14. An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
  15. 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.
  16. The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
  17. Scale: size or scope.
  18. A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
  19. The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
  20. The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).

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”,…

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