Ordering
['ɔːdərɪŋ] or ['ɔrdərɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; 'we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation'.
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Definition
(p pr. & vb. n.) of Order
(n.) Disposition; distribution; management.
Typed by Josephine
Examples
- He took upon him all the care of the house, ordering dinner, &c. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- One day I lost all patience; and, ordering post-horses, went to join him at Melton by surprise. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The season was bad, the roads impassable for anything except such an army as he had, and I should not have thought of ordering such a move. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It was a great joy to her to DO things, and to have the ordering of the job, with Birkin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He blushed a little, and ordering my coachman to stop, told me that I looked remarkably well and that he knew all about me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Only as I have neither husband nor child to give me natural duties, I must make myself some, in addition to ordering my gowns. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He left the letter at the office, ordering the messenger to carry it to Lowick Manor, and wait for an answer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- By half-past seven I was on the road and proceeded rapidly to the front, ordering all trains that were in front of troops off the road. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She took the first opportunity of angrily ordering my father out of the house, in his presence, and my father has never seen her since. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Hortense, who for some time had been on the move ordering supper, and was now clearing the little table of some books, etc. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Focusing and ordering are thus the two aspects of direction, one spatial, the other temporal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Jeremiah never courted me; t'ant likely that he would, after living in the house with me and ordering me about for as many years as he'd done. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Jos was in his glory, ordering about the waiters with great majesty. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They enjoyed so much the ordering and the appointing of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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