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.
Compare order with other words:
order vs. work
order vs. structure
ball vs. order
get vs. order
order vs. promote
convey vs. order
judgment vs. order
order vs. worder
order vs. ormer
border vs. order
order vs. stability
ask vs. order
notice vs. order
mandate vs. order
duty vs. order
order vs. ordinance
elicit vs. order
order vs. warrant
judgement vs. order
order vs. system
discord vs. order
order vs. source
order vs. turbulence
order vs. speed
order vs. position
order vs. phylum
order vs. summons
memorandum vs. order
harmony vs. order
decide vs. order
beginning vs. order
commission vs. order
bidding vs. order
barnabite vs. order
lophobranch vs. order
antichronism vs. order
order vs. premonstratensian
order vs. ursuline
maat vs. order
donative vs. order
order vs. orderer
kelter vs. order
order vs. paulist
order vs. orderless
methodize vs. order
mandator vs. order
counterorder vs. order
donat vs. order
barbet vs. order
churchly vs. order
disordering vs. order
order vs. rachilla
order vs. receipt
order vs. require
order vs. organization
exclaim vs. order
order vs. seriatim
assignment vs. order
bid vs. order
array vs. order
injunction vs. order
order vs. subclass
operator vs. order
order vs. reserve
arrangement vs. order
circular vs. order
obligation vs. order
god vs. order
fuchs vs. order
iris vs. order
bible vs. order
directive vs. order
order vs. pattern
appliance vs. order
behest vs. order
authority vs. order
impose vs. order
order vs. request
order vs. set
gang vs. order
order vs. peak
band vs. order
order vs. stalk
order vs. urban
fictional vs. order
assault vs. order
order vs. person
going vs. order
circle vs. order
horizon vs. order
note vs. order
order vs. trained
order vs. wild
order vs. zone
nucleus vs. order
order vs. smell
order vs. sector
order vs. robbery
order vs. ship
order vs. will
oak vs. order
order vs. track
inaccurately vs. order
city vs. order
coastal vs. order
center vs. order
order vs. tame
order vs. setting
book vs. order
attack vs. order
onset vs. order
order vs. sect
order vs. unit
demonstrate vs. order
order vs. segment
deck vs. order
cut vs. order
order vs. untamed
consent vs. order
order vs. symptom
domesticated vs. order
equal vs. order
entropy vs. order
harass vs. order
block vs. order
direction vs. order
fussiness vs. order
order vs. prose
decision vs. order
husk vs. order
order vs. tie
order vs. suggestion
decree vs. order
order vs. space
mendiant vs. order
amphipod vs. order
lagomorph vs. order
eutaxy vs. order
order vs. preorder
order vs. septenary
order vs. senary
novice vs. order
order vs. postulant
duodenary vs. order
order vs. reorder
commotion vs. order
cistercian vs. order
lazarist vs. order
octonary vs. order
order vs. quinary
committal vs. order
order vs. unsorted
hospice vs. order
classis vs. order
benedictine vs. order
antecedence vs. order
order vs. systematize
order vs. reformado
cetology vs. order
numbering vs. order
bede vs. order
order vs. tinamou
irregularly vs. order
enjoin vs. order
commandry vs. order
carthusian vs. order
order vs. ratite
franciscan vs. order
order vs. snook
novitiate vs. order
bossy vs. order
order vs. seriation
clare vs. order
mathesis vs. order
law vs. order
apply vs. order
application vs. order
order vs. regimen
order vs. tendency
batsman vs. order
order vs. wildness
epithet vs. order
order vs. tangled
order vs. vertical
curve vs. order
order vs. record
demonstration vs. order
order vs. wildly
order vs. turn
fore vs. order
amplitude vs. order
order vs. respectively
disorganized vs. order
cause vs. order
madrepore vs. order
madderwort vs. order
disordered vs. order
cetaceous vs. order
loon vs. order
disobey vs. order
continuance vs. order
order vs. prescription
augustinian vs. order
order vs. passerine
collate vs. order
order vs. stingray
bespeak vs. order
antistrophe vs. order
order vs. pterosaur
bursary vs. order
contravene vs. order
kilter vs. order
ionic vs. order
algebraic vs. order
digitigrade vs. order
order vs. sampling
order vs. vitreous
headquarters vs. order
order vs. writ
order vs. sheik
disorderly vs. order
order vs. reorganization
order vs. tidy
carnivorous vs. order
order vs. orientation
observance vs. order
order vs. suborder
order vs. superfamily
billet vs. order
obedient vs. order
order vs. regalia
backlog vs. order
amidships vs. order
order vs. ruling
order vs. succession
order vs. transpose
order vs. pangolin
order vs. pterodactyl
cosmos vs. order
ichthyosaurus vs. order
interstice vs. order
countermand vs. order
order vs. vacate
order vs. previous
dismiss vs. order
confusion vs. order
order vs. quaternary
order vs. tertiary
instruction vs. order
order vs. rearrange
alphabetize vs. order
order vs. poetry
eminence vs. order
order vs. repair
order vs. regiment
order vs. wish
discipline vs. order
cetacean vs. order
order vs. posterior
economy vs. order
dictate vs. order
order vs. regulate
order vs. termite
order vs. summon
legion vs. order
order vs. organize
order vs. vow
order vs. sequential
order vs. redress
content vs. order
installation vs. order
embargo vs. order
dictation vs. order
concatenation vs. order
include vs. order
bowfin vs. order
fill vs. order
demand vs. order
category vs. order
haphazardness vs. order
obey vs. order
order vs. primate
disorder vs. order
order vs. pardon
order vs. permute
friar vs. order
order vs. palindrome
combination vs. order
appointment vs. order
fiat vs. order
crescent vs. order
dom vs. order
nait vs. order
frog vs. order
crystal vs. order
order vs. phenomenon
hyrax vs. order
dominican vs. order
order vs. prescribe
order vs. vent
destiny vs. order
cohort vs. order
order vs. vector
commutative vs. order
order vs. secular
degree vs. order
genus vs. order
con vs. order
order vs. ordinary
order vs. orderly
order vs. sort
ordain vs. order
order vs. superorder
chaos vs. order
high vs. order
monomial vs. order
order vs. variable
exponent vs. order
order vs. sum
order vs. relation
cardinality vs. order
concentration vs. order
amplifier vs. order
function vs. order
circuit vs. order
order vs. polynomial
bat vs. order
order vs. power
order vs. side
batsmen vs. order
class vs. order
order vs. organism
order vs. rank
dynastic vs. order
decoration vs. order
knight vs. order
order vs. society
order vs. rule
nun vs. order
monk vs. order
order vs. religious
group vs. order
order vs. service
order vs. product
arrange vs. order
command vs. order
order vs. sequence
order vs. ordinal
order vs. penguin
civilization vs. order
order vs. perch
order vs. smooth
butterfly vs. order
order vs. tell
basket vs. order
chronology vs. order
bug vs. order
family vs. order
order vs. virtue
bucket vs. order
order vs. species
order vs. regular
antecedent vs. order
anarchy vs. order
gag vs. order
choir vs. order
order vs. religion
bank vs. order
order vs. wilding
crime vs. order
gobble vs. order
order vs. word
nix vs. order
early vs. order
begin vs. order