order
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French ordre.
[edit] Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˈɔːdə/, SAMPA: /"O:d@/
- (GenAm) IPA: /ˈɔɹdɚ/, SAMPA: /"Ord@`/
- Audio (US)help, file
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)də(r)
- Hyphenation: or‧der
[edit] Noun
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order (countable and uncountable; plural orders)
- (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
- (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
- (countable) A command.
- (countable) A request for some product or service.
- (countable) 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.
- (countable) A society of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
- (countable) 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.
- (countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank
- Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
- (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
- (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.
- (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
- (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
- (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph
- (order theory) A partially ordered set.
[edit] Quotations
- 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
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Terms derived from the noun "order"
[edit] Translations
arrangement, disposition
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good arrangement
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command
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request for some product or service
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religious group
society of knights
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taxonomical classification
Cricket - The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat
Electronics - a power of polynomial function in a circuit’s block
Chemistry - a number of a chemical reaction
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Graphtheory - a number of vertices in a graph
partially ordered set
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[edit] Verb
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to order (third-person singular simple present orders, present participle ordering, simple past and past participle ordered)
- To set in (any) order (1).
- To set in (a good) order (2).
- To issue a command.
- To request some product or service.
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[edit] Translations
to set in (any) order
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to set in (a good) order
to issue a command
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to request some product or service
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[edit] Noun
order c.
| Inflection for order | Singular | Plural | ||
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| common | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
| Base form | order | ordern | order | orderna |
| Possessive form | orders | orderns | orders | ordernas |
