| order | |
| 1. n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | |
| 2. n. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. | |
| 3. n. The state of being well arranged. | |
| The house is in order; the machinery is out of order. | |
| 4. n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet. | |
| to preserve order in a community or an assembly | |
| 5. n. A command. | |
| 6. n. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods. | |
| 7. n. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles | |
| St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537. | |
| 8. n. An association of knights | |
| the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath. | |
| 9. n. any group of people with common interests. | |
| 10. n. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity. | |
| 11. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank. | |
| Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales. | |
| 12. 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 distinct character, kind, or sort. | |
| the higher or lower orders of society | |
| talent of a high order | |
| 13. n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural. | |
| to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry | |
| 14. n. (architecture) 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 featu | |
| 15. n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order. | |
| 16. n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. | |
| a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter. | |
| 17. n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products. | |
| 18. n. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set. | |
| 19. n. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the id | |
| 20. n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph. | |
| 21. n. (order theory) A partially ordered set. | |
| 22. n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set. | |
| 23. n. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial. | |
| A quadratic polynomial,a x^2 + b x +c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2. | |
| 24. v. To set in some sort of order. | |
| 25. v. To arrange, set in proper order. | |
| 26. v. To issue a command to. | |
| to order troops to advance | |
| He ordered me to leave. | |
| 27. v. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order. | |
| to order groceries | |
| 28. v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. | |
