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Noun order has 15 senses
- order - (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"
--1 is a kind of command, bid, bidding, dictation
--1 has particulars: marching orders; summons; word
- order, order of magnitude - 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"
--2 is a kind of magnitude
- order - established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"
--3 is a kind of state
Antonyms: disorder
--3 has particulars:
- ordering, order, ordination - logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
--4 is a kind of arrangement
--4 has particulars:
- orderliness, order - a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order"
--5 is a kind of condition, status
Antonyms: disorderliness, disorder
--5 has particulars: spit and polish; kilter, kelter; tidiness
- decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript - 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"
--6 is a kind of act, enactment
--6 has particulars:
- order, purchase order - 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"
--7 is a kind of commercial document, commercial instrument
--7 has particulars:
- club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order - 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"
--8 is a kind of association
--8 has members: club member
--8 has particulars:
- order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure - a body of rules followed by an assembly
--9 is a kind of rule, prescript
--9 has particulars:
- holy order, order - (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"
--10 is a kind of status, position
--10 has particulars:
- order, monastic order - a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict"
--11 is a kind of sect, religious sect, religious order
--11 has particulars:
- order - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
--12 is a kind of taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon
--12 is a member of class
--12 has member: suborder; family
--12 has particulars: animal order; protoctist order; plant order; fungus order
- order - a request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant or bar etc.); "I gave the waiter my order"
--13 is a kind of request, asking
--13 has particulars: short order
- order - (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
--14 is a kind of artistic style, idiom
--14 has particulars:
- order, ordering - putting in order; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"
--15 is a kind of organization, organisation
--15 has particulars:
Verb order has 9 senses
- order, tell, enjoin, say - 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"
--1 is one way to request
Sample sentence:
They order him to write the letter
- order - make a request for something; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"
--2 is one way to request, bespeak, call for, quest
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
- order, prescribe, dictate - issue commands or orders for
--3 is one way to inflict, bring down, visit, impose
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern - bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
--4 is one way to decide, make up one's mind, determine
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- order - bring order to or into; "Order these files"
--5 is one way to arrange, set up
Antonyms: disorder, disarray
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- order - place in a certain order; "order these files"
--6 is one way to arrange, set up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order - appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church"
--7 is one way to invest, vest, enthrone
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- arrange, set up, put, order - arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
--8 is one way to organize, organise
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- rate, rank, range, order, grade, place - assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
--9 is one way to judge
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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