What's the difference between kilter and order?

Kilter


Definition:

  • (n.) See Kelter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 12.43pm BST 23rd over: Sri Lanka 58-2 (Jayawardene 1, Sangakkara 7) Plunkett sends down another six balls of lively pace at Mahela Jayawardene, but this time his radar is a little out-of-kilter.
  • (2) If the result on 6 May is shockingly out of kilter with public wishes, then a second general election should be held as soon as a new voting system is in place.
  • (3) [I was] over-thinking food choices,” she says, “and trying to get more protein, more energy density, the correct macro-nutrient ratios… after which I got so exhausted I just chose nothing because it was easier than feeling guilty about the ‘wrong’ choice.” She continues: “The current obsession with health, image and fitness is way out of kilter [with] self-care.” It raises the question: in our seemingly flaxseed and clean eating-obsessed Instagram culture, just how many women are hiding an eating disorder behind a healthy lifestyle obsession?
  • (4) The executive can't be allowed to go without any checks and balances, that's perfectly proper, but the check and balance we have got at the moment seems to have got out of kilter."
  • (5) Bristol, though, has a reputation for slightly off-kilter stuff.
  • (6) But a combination of factors has sent the balance out of kilter.
  • (7) A flat and compulsory licence fee could hardly be more out of kilter with the culture of a free-for-all and individualistic web.
  • (8) However, even though that was out of kilter with some – the Guardian marginally – the element of doubt might not be sufficient to fuel a rematch.
  • (9) But also a Spike Jonze love story, meaning it's set in a very near, slightly off-kilter future, in a squeaky-clean but still recognisable Los Angeles (complete with an unlikely fully functional public-transit system), which is augmented with shots filmed in other Pacific-rim capitals such as Shanghai and Tokyo.
  • (10) There is mounting anger at Britain's political and economic elite following the parliamentary expenses scandal, alongside bankers' bonuses out of kilter with any reasonable notion of justified reward.
  • (11) He would see his best way of managing the politics of this issue, given his own position is very much out of kilter with the views of the public, is to wait until the “no” position is strengthened, then allow the debate and vote to proceed on the basis that it will fail, this time at least.
  • (12) But Salmond says if he were first minister of Wales, where unemployment is out of kilter with unemployment in the rest of the UK, he might be worried about a currency union.
  • (13) It has also launched an attack on wages for those at the bottom of the scale, with the national minimum wage out of kilter with living costs, proposals to allow regional variations in the minimum wage that would cut it further, and the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board , which set living standards for many rural workers in the lowest paid jobs.
  • (14) He wrote in an introduction to the Radio Centre document: "The balanced radio industry gets out of kilter when public and commercial services sound too similar, or when BBC stations are seen to prioritise popularity over quality, and delivery of public purposes."
  • (15) The centre-forward was a distant second-best in the physical battle with Dunne while his shooting was off-kilter.
  • (16) Last week CBI boss Richard Lambert warned that boardroom pay was getting so out of kilter with average wages that bosses risked being regarded as "aliens".
  • (17) Good MPs say they need some casework, to see at first hand where government departments are failing, but the balance now is out of kilter.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cheech and Chong in Up in Smoke The idea that the genre could have greater aspirations is only a surprise because we’ve become used to stoner characters as affable, harmless, bong-toting jesters awesomely out of kilter with the adult world: Cheech and Chong, Floyd from True Romance , Jay and Silent Bob, Harold and Kumar.
  • (19) He added: "President Zuma should pay back every rand of public money improperly spent on making him live like the monarchy he fancies himself to be, which is out of kilter with the behaviour expected to the head of government in a constitutional democracy accountable to the public."
  • (20) He added that "something is dangerously out of kilter" when MPs such as Adam Price on the Commons culture, media and sport select committee confess they have been "held back" from probing into News Corporation's affairs because of "fear of what that company might do to them" – or when former employees are "too frightened to speak publicly about what they know" .

Order


Definition:

  • (n.) Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system
  • (n.) Of material things, like the books in a library.
  • (n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.
  • (n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
  • (n.) Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
  • (n.) The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.
  • (n.) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
  • (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.
  • (n.) A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
  • (n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large.
  • (n.) A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a group or division of men in the same social or other position; also, a distinct character, kind, or sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order.
  • (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.
  • (n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry.
  • (n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
  • (n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
  • (n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
  • (n.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
  • (n.) To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.
  • (n.) To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
  • (n.) To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.
  • (n.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
  • (v. i.) To give orders; to issue commands.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (2) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
  • (3) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (4) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (5) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
  • (6) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (7) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (8) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
  • (9) In order to determine the extent of this similarity, I have developed a panel of probes for many of the Pacl restriction fragments and have shown that most of the Pacl and Notl fragments found in MBa are also present in MBb.
  • (10) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
  • (11) However, within 5 min potassium overcame the vanadate potentiation of ouabain binding regardless of the order in which it was added to the reaction mixture.
  • (12) The metabolism of [1,3-14C]benzo[f]quinoline (BfQ) by liver microsomes from control, 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC)-pretreated and phenobarbital (PB)-pretreated rats has been investigated in order to gain insights into the effect of mixed function oxidase inducers on the types and levels of specific metabolites as formed in vitro.
  • (13) Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced to differentiate by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and hexamethylene-bis-acetamide (HBMA) in order to investigate whether their lipid characteristics, common to other systems of transformed cells, revert to a normal differentiation pattern.
  • (14) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (15) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
  • (16) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
  • (17) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
  • (18) A retrospective study was done in 86 patients on dialysis in order to evaluate the doses of aluminum hydroxide (OH3 Al) received to achieve a better serum phosphate control.
  • (19) Each test was examined by the frequency with which it was ordered, the frequency with which it was abnormal, and the frequency with which the abnormal result affected preoperative care.
  • (20) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.

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