What is order?

More definitions of "order":

• (noun): A body of rules followed by an assembly.
  Synonyms: rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure

• (verb): Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc..
  Synonyms: arrange, set up, put

• (verb): Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.
  Synonyms: regulate, regularize, regularise, govern

• (noun): Putting in order.
  Synonyms: ordering

• (noun): A degree in a continuum of size or quantity.
  Example: "It was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude"
  Synonyms: order of magnitude

• (noun): (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.

• (noun): (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families.

• (verb): Issue commands or orders for.
  Synonyms: prescribe, dictate

• (verb): Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.
  Synonyms: tell, enjoin, say

• (verb): Bring order to or into.
  Example: "Order these files"

• (verb): Appoint to a clerical posts.
  Synonyms: ordain, consecrate, ordinate

• (noun): Established customary state (especially of society).
  Example: "Order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"

• (verb): Make a request for something.
  Example: "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"

• (noun): A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
  Example: "A friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
  Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, rescript

• (noun): A group of person living under a religious rule.
  Example: "The order of Saint Benedict"
  Synonyms: monastic order

• (verb): Assign a rank or rating to.
  Synonyms: rate, rank, range, grade, place

• (noun): (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy.
  Example: "Theologians still disagree over whether 'bishop' should or should not be a separate order"
  Synonyms: holy order

• (noun): A formal association of people with similar interests.
  Example: "Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
  Synonyms: club, society, guild, gild, lodge

• (noun): A request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant or bar etc.).
  Example: "I gave the waiter my order"

• (noun): A commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities.
  Example: "IBM received an order for a hundred computers"
  Synonyms: purchase order

• (noun): A condition of regular or proper arrangement.
  Example: "He put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order"
  Synonyms: orderliness

• (noun): (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed.
  Example: "The British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London"

• (verb): Place in a certain order.
  Example: "Order these files"

Famous quotes containing the word order:

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“The mastery of one’s phonemes may be compared to the violinist’s mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor’s renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”
—W.V. Quine (b. 1908)