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order
v. command; request something (i.e. "I wish to order coffee and cake"); arrange; manage
 
n. arrangement; instruction; command; request for something; religious group; brotherhood, fraternity; particular social club; (Biology) main taxonomic category which ranking is under class and above family


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Order
Order may refer to:Religious, chivalric and fraternalHoly Orders, the rite or sacrament in which clergy are ordainedMonastic order, established since circa 300 ADReligious OrderMilitary order, established in the crusadesChivalric order, established since the 14th centuryFraternal orderTariqa or Sufi Order
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Order (die)
n. order, request for something; command

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order (de)
n. order, command, indent, say so

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Order
(n.)
A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.
  
 
(n.)
A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
  
 
(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 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.
  
 
(n.)
An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
  
 
(n.)
An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry.
  
 
(n.)
Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
  
 
(n.)
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.
  
 
(n.)
Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.
  
 
(n.)
Of material things, like the books in a library.
  
 
(n.)
Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
  
 
(n.)
Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
  
 
(n.)
Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system
  
 
(n.)
Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
  
 
(n.)
That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.
  
 
(n.)
The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.
  
 
(n.)
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 features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
  
 
(n.)
The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
  
 
(n.)
To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
  
 
(n.)
To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.
  
 
(n.)
To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
  
 
(n.)
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.
  
 
(v. i.)
To give orders; to issue commands.
  

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