Order

['ɔːdə] or ['ɔrdɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; 'there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list'.

(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.

(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'.

(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'.

(noun.) a body of rules followed by an assembly.

(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'.

(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'.

(noun.) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families.

(noun.) a group of person living under a religious rule; 'the order of Saint Benedict'.

(noun.) established customary state (especially of society); 'order ruled in the streets'; 'law and order'.

(verb.) place in a certain order; 'order the photos chronologically'.

(verb.) bring order to or into; 'Order these files'.

(verb.) make a request for something; 'Order me some flowers'; 'order a work stoppage'.

(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'.

(verb.) issue commands or orders for.

艾维斯編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

(n.) Of material things, like the books in a library.

(n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.

(n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.

(n.) Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.

(n.) The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.

(n.) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.

(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.) A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.

(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.) 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.) 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.) 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.) 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.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.

(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.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.

(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.

(n.) To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.

(n.) To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.

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

(v. i.) To give orders; to issue commands.

手打:奥斯伯特

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Method, regularity, symmetry, regular arrangement.[2]. Fit condition, proper state.[3]. Regulation, rule, canon, prescription, law, standing rule.[4]. Mandate, precept, injunction, command, direction, instruction, bidding.[5]. Rank, class, grade, degree.[6]. (Bot.) Family, tribe.[7]. (Zoöl.) Sub-class, subordinate class.

v. a. [1]. Regulate, arrange, systematize, adjust, methodize.[2]. Manage, conduct, carry on.[3]. Command, instruct, direct, bid, require, give an order to.

錄入:普勒斯顿

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Arrangement, condition, sequence, direction, rank, grade, class, decree,succession, series, method, injunction, precept, command

整理:雪麗

解釋/意思:

n. regular arrangement method: degree rank or position: rule regular system or government: command: a class a society of persons of the same profession &c.: a religious fraternity: a dignity conferred by a sovereign &c. giving membership in a body after the medieval orders of knighthood also the distinctive insignia thereof: social rank generally: a number of genera having many important points in common: a commission to supply purchase or sell something: (archit.) one of the different ways in which the column with its various parts and its entablature are moulded and related to each other: due action towards some end esp. in old phrase 'to take order:' the sacerdotal or clerical function: (pl.) the several degrees or grades of the Christian ministry.—v.t. to arrange: to conduct: to command.—v.i. to give command.—ns. Or′der-book a book for entering the orders of customers the special orders of a commanding officer or the motions to be put to the House of Commons; Or′derer; Or′dering arrangement: management: the act or ceremony of ordaining as priests or deacons.—adj. Or′derless without order: disorderly.—n. Or′derliness.—adj. Or′derly in good order: regular: well regulated: of good behaviour: quiet: being on duty.—adv. regularly: methodically.—n. a non-commissioned officer who carries official messages for his superior officer formerly the first sergeant of a company.—adj. Or′dinate in order: regular.—n. the distance of a point in a curve from a straight line measured along another straight line at right angles to it—the distance of the point from the other of the two lines is called the abscissa and the two lines are the axes of co-ordinates.—adv. Or′dinately.—Order-in-Council a sovereign order given with advice of the Privy Council; Order-of-battle the arrangement of troops or ships at the beginning of a battle; Order-of-the-day in a legislative assembly the business set down to be considered on any particular day: any duty assigned for a particular day.—Close order the usual formation for soldiers in line or column the ranks 16 inches apart or for vessels two cables'-length (1440 ft.) apart—opp. to Extended order; Full orders the priestly order; Minor orders those of acolyte exorcist reader and doorkeeper; Open order a formation in which ships are four cables'-length (2880 ft.) apart; Sailing orders written instructions given to the commander of a vessel before sailing; Sealed orders such instructions as the foregoing not to be opened until a certain specified time; Standing orders or rules regulations for procedure adopted by a legislative assembly.—In order and Out of order in accordance with regular and established usage of procedure in subject or way of presenting it before a legislative assembly &c. or the opposite; In order to for the end that; Take order (Shak.) to take measures.

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