Word Finder - order

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Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

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A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

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The state of being well arranged.

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The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.

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Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.

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to preserve order in a community or an assembly

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A command.

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A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

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

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St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.

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An association of knights.

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the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.

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Any group of people with common interests.

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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.

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

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Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.

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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 distinct character, kind, or sort.

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talent of a high order

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(chiefly plural) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry.

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to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry

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The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature 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.

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

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

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a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter

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

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The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.

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(of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the identity element of G; if no such number exists, the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).

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The number of vertices in a graph.

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A partially ordered set.

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

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

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A quadratic polynomial, a x^2 + b x + c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2.

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A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.

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To set in some sort of order.

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To arrange, set in proper order.

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To issue a command to.

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He ordered me to leave.

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To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

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to order groceries

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To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

The restraining order is for Destiny, not Alex.

Order them not to crowd together.

Restoring law and order to Ouray County.

Finally she achieved some semblance of order and left the room.

No, a restraining order wouldn't stop him from finding me if he wanted to, and it might just make him mad enough to do something worse.

The braids had to be untangled in order to shampoo the mud from her hair.

Instinctively her fingers affirmed her hair was in order for the mug shot.

She didn't acknowledge his order but headed toward the stairs.

She quirked a brow and made an exaggerated point of putting her hair back in order, tossing her head pertly and smiling up at him.

He made a purchase using the card earlier, just to make sure there wasn't a stop order on it.

They said that a gentleman farmer, who was behind the scenes, wanted to double his money, which, as I understood, amounted to half a million already; but in order to cover each one of his dollars with another, he took off the only coat, ay, the skin itself, of Walden Pond in the midst of a hard winter.

We don't fault, at the first order, Native Americans or Norman Borlaug for cross-breeding better corn or wheat.

Pierre, in order to make Boris' better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles into Boris' eyes.

His excellency Prince Andrew himself gave me orders to move all the people away and not leave them with the enemy, and there is an order from the Tsar about it too.

Heck, even Japan only recently allowed imports of rice and taxes the imports at 500 percent in order to protect their rice farmers.

Dusty wanted nothing more than to order Darian back to Ohio to finish one mess before dragging them into another.

His order was calm, the slight accent in his voice foreign.

This system will look at all the Italian restaurants around the country that you already like and look at all the ingredients they order online and look for restaurants in San Francisco using the same set of ingredients.

Sit down and write out the order of the day for tomorrow.

While Kutuzov was talking to Raevski and dictating the order of the day, Wolzogen returned from Barclay and said that General Barclay wished to have written confirmation of the order the field marshal had given.

Fatigued, overwhelmed, Deidre was unable to summon the physical strength to move or the willpower to order him away.

Gabriel wouldn't let himself near you in order to protect you.

To the noncommissioned officer's excuse that the prisoner was ill and could not walk, the officer replied that the order was to shoot those who lagged behind.

Lest I try the patience of my readers, I will offer, in no particular order, forty-three that seem most worthy.

Pierre wished to say that he was ready to sacrifice his money, his serfs, or himself, only one ought to know the state of affairs in order to be able to improve it, but he was unable to speak.

Even before he gave that order the thing he did not desire, and for which he gave the order only because he thought it was expected of him, was being done.

In the shed everyone was ready, dressed, belted, shod, and only awaited the order to start.

That rule says that an attacker should concentrate his forces in order to be stronger than his opponent at the moment of conflict.

Put everything in tiptop order, Sally.

I said then that it was not in order, voices were heard bickering with one another.

For an order to be certainly executed, it is necessary that a man should order what can be executed.

Dusty knew the memory of killing in order to be initiated wasn't something even Bianca could take away from him.

So why did he feel a twinge of loss at the order to send it up in flames?

One day he would order his camp bed to be set up in the glass gallery, another day he remained on the couch or on the lounge chair in the drawing room and dozed there without undressing, while--instead of Mademoiselle Bourienne--a serf boy read to him.

He wouldn't order your mate killed any more than he would his.

After all their years together, he didn't trust that she would do what she had to in order for them to be together.

Though the peasants paid quitrent, Alpatych thought no difficulty would be made about complying with this order, for there were two hundred and thirty households at work in Bogucharovo and the peasants were well to do.

Having repeated her order to Dron to have horses ready for her departure next morning, she went to her room and remained alone with her own thoughts.

An order must be given him at once, that instant.

They now bade farewell to the kind but unseen people of the cottage, and after the man had called their attention to a high, pyramid-shaped mountain on the opposite side of the Valley, and told them how to travel in order to reach it, they again started upon their journey.

We had hurried through the dish-washing after luncheon, in order that we might have as long an afternoon as possible for the story.

He left in order not to obstruct the commander-in-chief's undivided control of the army, and hoping that more decisive action would then be taken, but the command of the armies became still more confused and enfeebled.

The fact that he did not, as she had feared, order her to be carried away by force but only told her not to let him see her cheered Princess Mary.

Order the keys to be taken from me, said he.

An hour later Dunyasha came to tell the princess that Dron had come, and all the peasants had assembled at the barn by the princess' order and wished to have word with their mistress.

My dear, you order what is right....

If he found out the extent she'd gone to in order to be here with him?

We must remove it in my domain in order for my magic to work properly.

Most of the time, by their officers' order, the men sat on the ground.

But I did not summon you to discuss my actions, but to give you advice--or an order if you prefer it.