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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishordre, fromOld Frenchordre,ordne,ordene(order, rank), fromLatinōrdinem, accusative ofōrdō(row, rank, regular arrangement, literallyrow of threads in a loom), fromProto-Italic*ordō(to arrange), probably ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₂or-d-, from*h₂er-.

Related toLatinōrdior(begin, literallybegin to weave). In sense “request for purchase”, comparebespoke.Doublet ofordo.

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Noun

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order (countable anduncountable,pluralorders)

Illustrations of the Classical orders (from left to right):Tuscan,Doric,Ionic,Corinthian andComposite, made in 1728 (sense 14)
  1. (countable)Arrangement,disposition, orsequence.
    put the children in ageorder
    It's arranged inorder of frequency
  2. (countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
    • 1843, New York (State). Natural History Survey,Geology of New-York: Comprising the survey of the fourth geological ...[1]:
      In these situations we find the Genesee slate, the Tully limestone and the upper part of the Hamilton group, each one in itsorder disappearing beneath the lake level as we proceed southward.
    • 1856,George Nicholls,A History of the Irish Poor Law: In Connexion with the Condition of the People[2]:
      In the latter portion of this period, the country was assailed by famine and pestilence - — a fearful visitation which will be noticed hereafter in itsorder of date, and of which it would be out of place to say more at present.
    • 1897,T. L. Heath (translator),Eutocius of Ascalon, Extract from a commentary by Eutocius, quoted in1897 [CUP], T. L. Heath (editor),The Works of Archimedes, 2002, Dover,unnumbered page,
      His attempt I shall also give in itsorder.
    • 1915,Edwin Abbott Abbott,the fourfold gospel the proclamation of the new kingdom[3], page298:
      This narrative must be discussed later on, in itsorder.
    • 1996, John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell,John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837[4], page xxxi:
      The latter comes into play only as we examine each word in itsorder in the line.
    • 2013, Leah Sarat,Fire in the Canyon: Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream[5]:
      Hasn't it been shown that the Hebrew letter “w” is equivalent to the number 6, due to itsorder in the alphabet, he asked?
    • 2014, Julia Navarro,Tell Me Who I Am[6]:
      Because Professor Soler told me that you had to investigate things step by step, that you had to find a thread to follow and follow it, and find everything out in itsorder.
  3. (uncountable) The state of being wellarranged.
    The house is inorder; the machinery is out oforder.
  4. (countable)Conformity withlaw ordecorum; freedom fromdisturbance; generaltranquillity; public quiet.
    to preserveorder in a community or an assembly
    Order in the court!
    • 1993, Octavia Butler, chapter 3, inThe Parable of the Sower:
      He's the only person I know who's going to vote at all. Most people have given up on politicians. After all, politicians have been promising to return us to the glory, wealth, andorder of the twentieth century ever since I can remember.
  5. (countable) Acommand.
    give anorder
    his inability to followorders
    • 1907 January,Harold Bindloss, chapter 30, inThe Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen,→OCLC:
      It was by hisorder the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.
    • 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, inRailway Magazine, page53:
      John Hedley was Locomotive Foreman at Beattock. He was in bed, but they roused him, and he gaveorders for one of his pilot engines to go up to the summit, get Mitchell's train, and take it to Carlisle.
  6. (countable) A request for someproduct orservice; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
    make anorder
    receive an onlineorder for the new range of sunglasses
    Iordered a burger and some fries.
    • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, inThe Economist[7], volume405, number8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
      A farmer could place anorder for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.
  7. (countable) Agroup ofreligiousadherents, especiallymonks ornuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particularrule or set of principles.
    St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuitorder in 1537.
  8. (countable) Anassociation ofknights.
    theOrder of the Garter, theOrder of the Bath.
  9. Anygroup of people withcommoninterests.
  10. (countable) Adecoration, awarded by a government, adynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
    • 2022 August 3, Matthew Mazzetta, “President Tsai awards state honor to visiting U.S. House speaker”, inFocus Taiwan[8], archived fromthe original on03 August 2022:
      TheOrder of Propitious Clouds is a civilianorder that can be awarded to Taiwan citizens or foreign nationals. It is divided into a total of nine "classes" or grades, of which the Special Grand Cordon is the highest.
      Pelosi said she was particularly honored to receive the award from Tsai -- "a woman president in one of the freest societies in the world."
  11. (countable, biology, taxonomy) Acategory in the classification oforganisms,ranking belowclass and abovefamily; ataxon at that rank.
    The magnolia and nutmegfamilies belong to theorderMagnoliales.
    • 2013 May-June,Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, inAmerican Scientist, volume101, number 3, page193:
      Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with anotherorder of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
  12. A number of things or persons arranged in afixed orsuitable place, orrelative position; arank; arow; agrade; especially, a rank orclass in society; a distinctcharacter,kind, orsort.
    the higher or lowerorders of society
    talent of a highorder
  13. (Christianity) Anecclesiasticalrank orposition, usually for the sake ofministry,(especially, when plural)holy orders.
    There have been many major and minororders in the history of Christianity: theorder of virgins, of deacons, priests, lectors, acolytes, porters, catechists, widows, etc.
    to takeorders orholyorders means to be ordained a deacon or priest
  14. (architecture) Thedisposition of acolumn and its component parts, and of theentablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
    Hyponyms:Corinthian order,Doric order,Ionic order
  15. (cricket) Thesequence in which aside’sbatsmenbat; thebatting order.
  16. (sciences, engineering, logic)Scale:size orscope.
    Hyponyms:order of magnitude,OOM
    on anotherorder
  17. (electronics) Apower ofpolynomialfunction in an electroniccircuit’s block, such as afilter, anamplifier, etc.
    a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
  18. (chemistry) The overallpower of the rate law of achemical reaction, expressed as apolynomialfunction ofconcentrations ofreactants andproducts.
  19. (set theory, of aset oralgebraic structure) The number ofelements contained within (the given object);formally, thecardinality (of the given object).
    • 1911 [Cambridge University Press], William Burnside,Theory of Groups of FiniteOrder, 2nd Edition, Reprint, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2004,page 222,
      In this case, the conjugate set containsn(n − 1)/x(x − 1) distinct sub-groups oforderm, andH is therefore self-conjugate in a groupK oforderx(x − l)m.
    • 2000,Michael Aschbacher,Finite Group Theory, 2nd edition,Cambridge University Press,page260:
      For various reasons it turns out to be better to enlarge this set of invariants to include suitable normalizers of subgroups of odd primeorder.
  20. (group theory, of anelementg of a groupG) The smallestpositivenatural numbern such that (denoting the group operationmultiplicatively)gn is theidentity element ofG, if such ann exists;if no such n exists the element is said to be ofinfinite order (or sometimeszero order).
  21. (graph theory, of agraph) The number ofvertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
  22. (order theory) Apartially ordered set.
  23. (order theory) Therelation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
  24. (algebra, of amonomial) Thesum of theexponents of thevariables involved in the expression.
    The monomialx2y3z{\displaystyle x^{2}y^{3}z} is oforder2+3+1=6{\displaystyle 2+3+1=6}.
  25. (algebra, of apolynomial in onevariable) The order of theleading monomial; (equivalently) the largestpower of the variable involved in the given expression.
    Synonym:degree
    The quadratic polynomialax2+bx+c,{\displaystyle ax^{2}+bx+c,} is said to be oforder (or degree) 2 whena{\displaystyle a} isnonzero.
  26. (finance) A written direction to furnish someone withmoney orproperty; comparemoney order,postal order.
    • 1763,James Boswell, edited by Gordon Turnbull,London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published2014, page233:
      I then walked to Cochrane's & got anorder on Sir Charles Asgill for my money.

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taxonomic ranks

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  • Swahili:oda

Translations

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arrangement, disposition
good arrangement
command
request for some product or service
religious group
society of knights
awarded decoration
biology: taxonomical classification
a rank; a row; a grade; esp. a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort
cricket: sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat
electronics: power of polynomial function in a circuit’s block
chemistry: a number of a chemical reaction
graph theory: number of vertices in a graph
partially ordered set
relation on a partially ordered set
highest exponent in a polynomial
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Verb

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order (third-person singular simple presentorders,present participleordering,simple past and past participleordered)

  1. (transitive) Toset in some sort of order.
    We need toorder them alphabetically.
  2. (transitive) Toarrange, set inproper order.
    The books in the shelf needordering.
  3. (transitive) Toissue acommand to; to charge.
    toorder troops to advance
    Heordered me to leave.
    I hate beingordered around by my co-workers.
  4. (transitive) Torequest someproduct orservice; tosecure by placing an order.
    You can noworder most products to be delivered to your home.
    toorder groceries
    toorder food from a restaurant
  5. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

Conjugation

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Conjugation oforder
infinitive(to)order
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularorderordered
2nd-personsingularorder,orderestordered,orderedst
3rd-personsingularorders,orderethordered
pluralorder
subjunctiveorderordered
imperativeorder
participlesorderingordered

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Translations

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to set in (any) order
to set in (a good) order

Icelandic:panta (is)

to issue a command
to request some product or service

References

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  • order”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchordre, fromOld Frenchordre, fromLatinordo.Doublet oforde.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɔr.dər/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation:or‧der

Noun

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order m orf orn (pluralorders,nodiminutive)

  1. order(command)
  2. order(request for product or service)

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Further reading

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  • order” inWoordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

German

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Verb

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order

  1. inflection ofordern:
    1. first-personsingularpresent
    2. singularimperative

Indonesian

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Etymology

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FromDutchorder, fromOld Frenchordre,ordne,ordene(order, rank), fromLatinōrdinem, accusative ofōrdō(row, rank, regular arrangement, literallyrow of threads in a loom).Doublet oforde andordo.

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Noun

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ordêr

  1. order(command)
    Synonym:pesan
  2. (uncommon)order(request for some product or service)
    Synonyms:pesanan,orderan

Verb

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ordêr (activemengorder,passivediorder)

  1. toorder(to request some product or service)
    Synonym:pesan
  2. (uncommon) toorder(to issue a command)
    Synonym:pesan

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Polish

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PolishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediapl

Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishorder.

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Noun

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order inan (diminutiveorderek,augmentativeorderzysko,related adjectiveorderowy)

  1. order(decoration awarded by government or other authority)
    Hypernym:odznaczenie

Declension

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Declension oforder
singularplural
nominativeorderordery
genitiveorderuorderów
dativeorderowiorderom
accusativeorderordery
instrumentalorderemorderami
locativeorderzeorderach
vocativeorderzeordery

Derived terms

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nouns
verbs

Related terms

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nouns

Further reading

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  • order inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • order in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • order in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromGermanOrder orRussianордер(order).

Noun

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order n (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete)order

Declension

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singular onlyindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativeorderorderul
genitive-dativeorderorderului
vocativeorderule

References

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  • order in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN

Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchordre

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order c

  1. anorder (command)
  2. anorder (request for some product or service – often of a larger or more involved order)
    Företaget hade fått enorder på femton bussar
    The company had received anorder for fifteen busses

Usage notes

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An order at a restaurant or from an online store (on a smaller scale) or the like is abeställning.

Declension

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Declension oforder
nominativegenitive
singularindefiniteorderorders
definiteordernorderns
pluralindefiniteorderorders
definiteordernaordernas
Declension oforder
nominativegenitive
singularindefiniteorderorders
definiteordernorderns
pluralindefiniteordrarordrars
definiteordrarnaordrarnas

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