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Order - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Order : (noun)
1: (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"
2: 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" [syn: order of magnitude]
3: established customary state (especially of society); "order
ruled in the streets"; "law and order" [ant: disorder]
4: logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements;
"we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of
their presentation" [syn: ordering, ordination]
5: a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his
desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order"
[syn: orderliness] [ant: disorderliness, disorderliness]
6: 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" [syn: decree, edict, fiat, rescript]
7: 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" [syn: purchase order]
8: 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" [syn: club, society, guild, gild, lodge]
9: a body of rules followed by an assembly [syn: rules of
order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure]
10: (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" [syn: holy order]
11: a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order
of Saint Benedict" [syn: monastic order]
12: (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
13: a request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant
or bar etc.); "I gave the waiter my order"
14: (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
15: putting in order; "there were mistakes in the ordering of
items on the list" [syn: ordering]
(verb)
1: 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" [syn: tell, enjoin, say]
2: make a request for something; "Order me some flowers";
"order a work stoppage"
3: issue commands or orders for [syn: prescribe, dictate]
4: bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage;
impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people
dress"; "This town likes to regulate" [syn: regulate, regularize,
regularise, govern] [ant: deregulate]
5: bring order to or into; "Order these files" [ant: disorder]
6: place in a certain order; "order these files"
7: appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church"
[syn: ordain, consecrate, ordinate]
8: arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my
schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with
those of bygone times" [syn: arrange, set up, put]
9: assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these
students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food
guide" [syn: rate, rank, range, grade, place]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Series \Se"ries\, n.
1. (Bot.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group
of families showing certain structural or morphological
relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some
writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.
2. (Elec.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a
circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form
a single path for the current; -- opposed to parallel.
The parts so arranged are said to be
in series.
3. (Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Order : \Or"der\, n. [OE. ordre, F. ordre, fr. L. ordo, ordinis.
Cf. Ordain, Ordinal.]
1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established
succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as:
(a) Of material things, like the books in a library.
(b) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a
discource.
(c) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
The side chambers were . . . thirty in order.
--Ezek. xli.
6.
Bright-harnessed angels sit in order
serviceable. --Milton.
Good order is the foundation of all good things.
--Burke.
2. Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition;
as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
--Locke.
3. The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in
the conduct of debates or the transaction of business;
usage; custom; fashion. --Dantiel.
And, pregnant with his grander thought, Brought the
old order into doubt. --Emerson.
4. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance;
general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order
in a community or an assembly.
5. That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or
regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and
orders of the senate.
The church hath authority to establish that for an
order at one time which at another time it may
abolish. --Hooker.
6. A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
Upon this new fright, an order was made by both
houses for disarming all the papists in England.
--Clarendon.
7. 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.
In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the
uncomfortable manager who abolished them. --Lamb.
8. 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.
They are in equal order to their several ends.
--Jer. Taylor.
Various orders various ensigns bear. --Granville.
Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little
short of crime. --Hawthorne.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Order : \Or"der\, v. i.
To give orders; to issue commands.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Order : \Or"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ordered; p pr. & vb. n.
Ordering.] [Based on Order, n.]
1. 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.
To him that ordereth his conversation aright. --Ps.
1. 23.
Warriors old with ordered spear and shield.
--Milton.
2. To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to
advance.
3. To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order
a carriage; to order groceries.
4. (Eccl.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive
into the ranks of the ministry.
These ordered folk be especially titled to God.
--Chaucer.
Persons presented to be ordered deacons. --Bk. of
Com. Prayer.
Order arms (Mil.), the command at which a rifle is brought
to a position with its but resting on the ground; also,
the position taken at such a command.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Note: In modern law, proposal and acceptance are the
constituent elements into which all contracts are
resolved.
Acceptance of a bill of exchange, check, draft, or
order, is an engagement to pay it according to the terms.
This engagement is usually made by writing the word
``accepted'' across the face of the bill.
Acceptance of goods, under the statute of frauds, is an
intelligent acceptance by a party knowing the nature of
the transaction.
6. Meaning; acceptation. [Obs.]
Acceptance of persons, partiality, favoritism. See under
Accept.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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ORDER, French law. The act by which the rank of preferences of claims among
creditors who have liens over the price which arises out of the sale of an
immovable subject, is ascertained, is called order. Dalloz, Dict. h.t.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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ORDER, government. By this expression is understood the several bodies which
compose the state. In ancient Rome, for example, there were three distinct
orders; namely, that of the senators, that of the patricians, and that of
the plebeians.
2. In the United States there are no orders of men, all men are equal
in the eye of the law, except that in some states slavery has been entailed
on them while they were colonies, and it still exists, in relation to some
of the African race but these have no particular rights. Vide Rank.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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ORDER, contracts. An indorsement or short writing put upon the back of a
negotiable bill or note, for the purpose of passing the title to it, and
making it payable to another person.
2. When a bill or note is payable to order, which is generally
expressed by this formula, "to A B, or order,"or" to theOrder : of A B," in
this case the payee, A B may either receive the money secured by such
instrument, or by his order, which is generally done by a simple
indorsement, (q.v.) pass the right to receive it to another. But a bill or
note wanting these words, although not negotiable, does not lose the general
qualities of such instruments. 6 T. R. 123; 6 Taunt. 328; Russ. & Ry. C. C.
300; 3 Caines, 137; 9 John. 217. Vide Bill of Exchange; Indorsement.
3. An informal bill of exchange or a paper which requires one person to
pay or deliver to another goods on account of the maker to a third party, is
called an order.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Order |
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