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Sounds | ao'rder |
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Rhymes | adder, alder, Alexander, and 194 more rhymes in der at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed. |
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Examples | "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London" |
Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
Narrower | marching orders; summons; word |
Broader | command, bid, bidding, dictation |
Usage | plural, plural form |
Verbs | order; order |
Meaning | A degree in a continuum of size or quantity. |
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Examples | "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude" |
Synonyms | order of magnitude |
Broader | magnitude |
Verbs | order |
Meaning | Established customary state (especially of society). |
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Examples | "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" |
Narrower | civil order, polity; rule of law; tranquillity, quiet; harmony, concord, concordance; stability; peace |
Broader | state |
Contrary | disorder |
Verbs | order |
Meaning | Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements. |
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Examples | "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" |
Synonyms | ordering, ordination |
Narrower | bacteria order; word order; genetic code; genome; series |
Broader | arrangement |
Verbs | order; order; order |
Meaning | A condition of regular or proper arrangement. |
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Examples | "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order" |
Synonyms | orderliness |
Narrower | spit and polish; kilter, kelter; tidiness |
Broader | condition, status |
Contrary | disorderliness, disorder |
Meaning | A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge). |
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Examples | "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" |
Synonyms | decree, edict, fiat, rescript |
Category | law, jurisprudence |
Narrower | consent decree; curfew; decree nisi; imperial decree; legal separation, judicial separation; programma; prohibition, ban, proscription; stay; bull, papal bull |
Broader | act, enactment |
Verbs | order; order |
Meaning | A commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities. |
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Examples | "IBM received an order for a hundred computers" |
Synonyms | purchase order |
Narrower | credit order, bill-me order; indent; market order; production order; stop order, stop-loss order; stop payment; mail order |
Broader | commercial document, commercial instrument |
Verbs | order |
Meaning | A formal association of people with similar interests. |
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Examples | "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" |
Synonyms | club, society, guild, gild, lodge |
Members | club member |
Narrower | athenaeum, atheneum; bookclub; chapter; chess club; country club; fraternity, frat; glee club; golf club; hunt, hunt club; investors club; jockey club; racket club; rowing club; slate club; sorority; turnverein; yacht club, boat club; service club |
Broader | association |
Verbs | order |
Meaning | A body of rules followed by an assembly. |
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Synonyms | rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure |
Category of | proposer, mover |
Narrower | interpellation; standing order; closure, cloture, gag rule, gag law; point of order; previous question; Robert's Rules of Order |
Broader | rule, prescript |
Meaning | (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy. |
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Examples | "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate order" |
Synonyms | holy order |
Narrower | acolyte; anagnost; deacon; doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius; exorcist; lector, reader; priest; subdeacon |
Broader | status, position |
Meaning | A group of person living under a religious rule. |
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Examples | "the order of Saint Benedict" |
Synonyms | monastic order |
Narrower | Augustinian order; Benedictine order, order of Saint Benedict; Carmelite order, Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; Carthusian order; Dominican order; Franciscan order; Jesuit order, Society of Jesus |
Broader | sect, religious sect, religious order |
Meaning | (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families. |
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Category | biology, biological science |
Member of | class |
Members | suborder; family |
Narrower | animal order; protoctist order; plant order; fungus order |
Broader | taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon |
Adjectives | ordinal |
Meaning | A request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant or bar etc.). |
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Examples | "I gave the waiter my order" |
Narrower | short order |
Broader | request, asking |
Verbs | order |
Meaning | (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. |
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Category | architecture |
Narrower | Doric order, Dorian order; Ionic order, Ionian order; Corinthian order; Composite order; Tuscan order |
Broader | artistic style, idiom |
Meaning | Putting in order. |
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Examples | "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" |
Synonyms | ordering |
Narrower | rank order; scaling, grading; succession, sequence; layout; alphabetization, alphabetisation |
Broader | organization, organisation |
Verbs | order; order; order |
Meaning | Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Model | They order him to write the letter |
Examples | "She ordered him to do the shopping" |
Synonyms | tell, enjoin, say |
Narrower | direct; instruct; command, require, compel; call, send for; warn |
Broader | request |
Nouns | order; order |
Meaning | Make a request for something. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
Examples | "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage" |
Narrower | reorder; place; call; wish; commission |
Broader | request, bespeak, call for, quest |
Nouns | order; orderer; order; order |
Meaning | Issue commands or orders for. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | prescribe, dictate |
Narrower | mandate |
Broader | inflict, bring down, visit, impose |
Nouns | order; order |
Meaning | Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage. Impose regulations. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | regulate, regularize, regularise, govern |
Narrower | standardize, standardise; zone, district |
Broader | decide, make up one's mind, determine |
Contrary | deregulate |
Nouns | order |
Meaning | Bring order to or into. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "Order these files" |
Narrower | tidy, tidy up, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square away; systematize, systematise, systemize, systemise; collate; disentangle, unsnarl, straighten out |
Broader | arrange, set up |
Contrary | disorder, disarray |
Nouns | order; orderer; order, ordering |
Meaning | Place in a certain order. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "order these files" |
Broader | arrange, set up |
Nouns | order; orderer; order, ordering |
Meaning | Appoint to a clerical posts. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP |
Synonyms | ordain, consecrate, ordinate |
Broader | invest, vest, enthrone |
Nouns | order |
Meaning | Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | arrange, set up, put |
Narrower | synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise |
Broader | organize, organise |
Nouns | ordering, order |
Meaning | Assign a rank or rating to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | rate, rank, range, grade, place |
Narrower | superordinate; shortlist; seed; reorder; subordinate; prioritize, prioritise; sequence; downgrade; upgrade |
Broader | judge |
Nouns | order; ordering |