order (noun)

(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"

order, order of magnitude (noun)

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"

order (noun)

established customary state (especially of society)

"order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"

ordering, order, ordination (noun)

logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements

"we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"

orderliness, order (noun)

a condition of regular or proper arrangement

"he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order"

decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript (noun)

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"

order, purchase order (noun)

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"

club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order (noun)

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"

order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure (noun)

a body of rules followed by an assembly

Holy Order, Order (noun)

(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"

order, monastic order (noun)

a group of person living under a religious rule

"the order of Saint Benedict"

order (noun)

(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families

order (noun)

a request for something to be made, supplied, or served

"I gave the waiter my order"; "the company's products were in such demand that they got more orders than their call center could handle"

order (noun)

(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

order, ordering (verb)

the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement

"there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"

order, tell, enjoin, say (verb)

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"

order (verb)

make a request for something

"Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"

order, prescribe, dictate (verb)

issue commands or orders for

regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern (verb)

bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

"We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"

order (verb)

bring order to or into

"Order these files"

order (verb)

place in a certain order

"order the photos chronologically"

ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order (verb)

appoint to a clerical posts

"he was ordained in the Church"

arrange, set up, put, order (verb)

arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

"arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"

rate, rank, range, order, grade, place (verb)

assign a rank or rating to

"how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

order (Noun)

Arrangement, disposition, sequence.

order (Noun)

The state of being well arranged.

order (Noun)

A command.

order (Noun)

A request for some product or service.

order (Noun)

A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles; as, the Jesuit Order.

order (Noun)

A society of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.

order (Noun)

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.

order (Noun)

A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank

order (Noun)

The sequence in which a side's batsmen bat; the batting order.

order (Verb)

To set in some sort of order.

order (Verb)

To arrange, set in proper order.

order (Verb)

To issue a command.

order (Verb)

To request some product or service.

order (Noun)

a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit's block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

order (Noun)

The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.

order (Noun)

The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.

order (Noun)

The number of vertices in a graph

order (Noun)

A partially ordered set.

order (Noun)

The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partically ordered set.

order (Noun)

The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.

Order

In scientific classification used in biology, the order is ⁕a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family. An immediately higher rank, superorder, may be added directly above order, while suborder would be a lower rank. ⁕a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank. In that case the plural is orders. What does and does not belong to each order is determined by a taxonomist. Similarly for the question if a particular order should be recognized at all. Often there is no exact agreement, with different taxonomists each taking a different position. There are no hard rules that a taxonomist needs to follow in describing or recognizing an order. Some taxa are accepted almost universally, while others are recognised only rarely. For some groups of organisms, consistent suffixes are used to denote that the rank is an order. The Latin suffix -formes meaning "having the form of" is used for the scientific name of orders of birds and fishes, but not for those of mammals and invertebrates. The suffix -ales is for the name of orders of vascular plants.