What's the difference between countermand and counterorder?
Countermand
Definition:
(v. t.) To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.
(v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
(v. t.) To oppose; to revoke the command of.
(n.) A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.
Example Sentences:
(1) I mean I wasn’t trying to countermand his authority but he was a little anxious … I don’t think he realized that he hit the artery and I remember saying you’ve got the artery.
(2) The ORG believes that it can stop the bill coming into force, on the basis that it countermands a European court ruling that blanket data retention is unlawful and violates the right to privacy, breaching human rights.
(3) That she “oversteps the mark” – countermanding ministers and participating in top-level meetings and even cabinet discussions in ways senior Coalition figures believe is inappropriate for an unelected official.
(4) In addition they show that while 2'-modification were tolerated by the phosphodiesterase, addition of an 8-substituent countermanded the allowable 2'-modification.
(5) The clearest instance of division was when Shamir countermanded Peres's so-called London Agremeent for an international peace conference, arranged with King Hussein of Jordan and secretly signed in the London home of the lawyer Lord Mischon in 1987.
(6) By countermanding first the landslide victory of an elected government and then a 61% plebiscite majority, the EU functionally vetoed the outcomes of Greek democracy.
(7) A countermanding procedure and race model are used to assess separately the effects of experimental factors before and after the "point of no return" in response preparation.
(8) The myth busters of the left talk about how low actual fraud on disability benefits is, as if they can countermand this image: the disabled person who doesn't look disabled and yet says they are disabled, and yet how can we truly know they're disabled?
(9) Both intrinsic and extrinsic adjuvanticity is the operational production of countermanding signals; (4) memory T cells are qualitatively different from normal T cells in their sensitivity to feedback signals and also in their susceptibility to suppression; (5) mature thymus dependent B cells cannot be rendered tolerant by the direct action of antigen, while immature and thymus independent B cells can; (6) the mechanism of suppression induced by exogenously administered antigens and that by normal differentiation products (i.e.
(10) The FTC Act prohibits “unfair and deceptive” acts and practices, which Epic alleges Facebook’s actions within the Cornell study countermand.
(11) A short-latency, phasic lengthening of interbeat interval was suggested to reflect the midbrain coordination of the countermanding of response execution.
(12) Immune responses only occur when countermanding signals are also generated.
(13) Potential donors would prefer a legally recognized donor card that cannot be countermanded by the next of kin.
(14) Although the mean K of AIB was higher in brain tumors of the hypertensive rats, the increase is unlikely to be meaningful in terms of augmented delivery of water-soluble drugs to brain tumors, and the high incidence of intracerebral hemorrhage countermands any clinical use of this approach.