Order

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Noun
(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"
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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"
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established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"
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logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
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a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order"
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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"
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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"
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a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
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a body of rules followed by an assembly
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(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop'' should or should not be a separate Order"
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a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict"
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(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
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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"
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(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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the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"
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give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"
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make a request for something; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"
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issue commands or orders for
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bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
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bring order to or into; "Order these files"
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place in a certain order; "order the photos chronologically"
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appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church"
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arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one''s life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
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assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
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