English noun: order | |||
1. | order (communication) (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed | ||
Samples | The British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bid, bidding, command, dictation | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | marching orders, summons, word | ||
Domain category | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | ||
Domain usage | plural, plural form | ||
2. | order (attribute) a degree in a continuum of size or quantity | ||
Samples | It was on the order of a mile. An explosion of a low order of magnitude. | ||
Synonyms | order of magnitude | ||
Broader (hypernym) | magnitude | ||
3. | order (state) established customary state (especially of society) | ||
Samples | Order ruled in the streets. Law and order. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | state | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | civil order, concord, concordance, harmony, peace, polity, quiet, rule of law, stability, tranquility, tranquillity | ||
Antonyms | disorder | ||
4. | order (group) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | ||
Samples | We shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation. | ||
Synonyms | ordering, ordination | ||
Broader (hypernym) | arrangement | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bacteria order, genetic code, genome, series, word order | ||
5. | order (state) a condition of regular or proper arrangement | ||
Samples | He put his desk in order. The machine is now in working order. | ||
Synonyms | orderliness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | condition, status | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | kelter, kilter, spit and polish, tidiness | ||
Antonyms | disorderliness, disorder | ||
6. | order (communication) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | ||
Samples | A friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there. | ||
Synonyms | decree, edict, fiat, rescript | ||
Broader (hypernym) | act, enactment | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | ban, bull, consent decree, curfew, decree nisi, imperial decree, judicial separation, legal separation, papal bull, programma, prohibition, proscription, stay | ||
Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
7. | order (communication) a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities | ||
Samples | IBM received an order for a hundred computers. | ||
Synonyms | purchase order | ||
Broader (hypernym) | commercial document, commercial instrument | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bill-me order, credit order, indent, mail order, market order, production order, reorder, stop order, stop payment, stop-loss order | ||
8. | order (group) a formal association of people with similar interests | ||
Samples | He joined a golf club. They formed a small lunch society. Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today. | ||
Synonyms | club, gild, guild, lodge, social club, society | ||
Broader (hypernym) | association | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | athenaeum, atheneum, boat club, bookclub, chapter, chess club, country club, frat, fraternity, glee club, golf club, hunt, hunt club, investors club, jockey club, racket club, rowing club, service club, slate club, sorority, turnverein, yacht club | ||
Member holonym | club member | ||
9. | order (communication) a body of rules followed by an assembly | ||
Synonyms | parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order | ||
Broader (hypernym) | prescript, rule | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | closure, cloture, gag law, gag rule, interpellation, point of order, previous question, standing order | ||
Instance hyponym | Robert's Rules of Order | ||
Domain category members | mover, proposer | ||
10. | Order (state) (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy | ||
Samples | Theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order. | ||
Synonyms | Holy Order | ||
Broader (hypernym) | position, status | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | acolyte, anagnost, deacon, doorkeeper, exorcist, lector, ostiarius, ostiary, priest, reader, subdeacon | ||
11. | order (group) a group of person living under a religious rule | ||
Samples | The order of Saint Benedict. | ||
Synonyms | monastic order | ||
Broader (hypernym) | religious order, religious sect, sect | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | Augustinian order, Benedictine order, Carmelite order, Carthusian order, Dominican order, Franciscan order, Jesuit order, Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, order of Saint Benedict, Society of Jesus | ||
12. | order (group) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families | ||
Broader (hypernym) | taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | animal order, fungus order, plant order, protoctist order | ||
Member holonym | family, suborder | ||
Member meronym | class | ||
Domain category | biological science, biology | ||
13. | order (communication) a request for something to be made, supplied, or served | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | asking, request | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | short order | ||
14. | order (attribute) (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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | artistic style, idiom | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | Composite order, Corinthian order, Dorian order, Doric order, Ionian order, Ionic order, Tuscan order | ||
Domain category | architecture | ||
15. | order (act) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | ||
Samples | There were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list. | ||
Synonyms | ordering | ||
Broader (hypernym) | organisation, organization | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | alphabetisation, alphabetization, grading, layout, rank order, scaling, sequence, succession | ||
English verb: order | |||
1. | order (communication) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | ||
Samples | I said to him to go home. She ordered him to do the shopping. The mother told the child to get dressed. | ||
Examples | They order him to write the letter | ||
Synonyms | enjoin, say, tell | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
Broader (hypernym) | request | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | call, command, direct, instruct, require, send for, warn | ||
2. | order (communication) make a request for something | ||
Samples | Order me some flowers. Order a work stoppage. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something from somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bespeak, call for, quest, request | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | call, commission, place, reorder, wish | ||
3. | order (communication) issue commands or orders for | ||
Synonyms | dictate, prescribe | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bring down, impose, inflict, visit | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | mandate | ||
4. | order (social) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | ||
Samples | We cannot regulate the way people dress. This town likes to regulate. | ||
Synonyms | govern, regularise, regularize, regulate | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | decide, determine, make up one's mind | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | district, standardise, standardize, zone | ||
Antonyms | deregulate | ||
5. | order (change) bring order to or into | ||
Samples | Order these files. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | arrange, set up | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | clean up, collate, disentangle, neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, straighten out, systematise, systematize, systemise, systemize, tidy, tidy up, unsnarl | ||
Antonyms | disarray, disorder | ||
6. | order (change) place in a certain order | ||
Samples | Order the photos chronologically. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | arrange, set up | ||
7. | order (social) appoint to a clerical posts | ||
Samples | He was ordained in the Church. | ||
Synonyms | consecrate, ordain, ordinate | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Somebody ----s somebody PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | enthrone, invest, vest | ||
8. | order (cognition) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | ||
Samples | Arrange my schedule. Set up one's life. I put these memories with those of bygone times. | ||
Synonyms | arrange, put, set up | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | organise, organize | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | contemporise, contemporize, phrase, synchronise, synchronize | ||
9. | order (cognition) assign a rank or rating to | ||
Samples | How would you rank these students?. The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide. | ||
Synonyms | grade, place, range, rank, rate | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | evaluate, judge, pass judgment | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | downgrade, prioritise, prioritize, reorder, seed, sequence, shortlist, subordinate, superordinate, upgrade | ||