to order

Definition of to order in English English dictionary: to specification; "he had the shoes made to order; to specification; "he had the shoes made to order"; 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; To issue a command; A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank
Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.; 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; To request some product or service; A request for some product or service; The number of vertices in a graph; A partially ordered set; A society of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath; Arrangement, disposition, sequence; The highest exponent appearing in a polynomial; A command; To set in (a good) order (2); The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partically ordered set; The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products; a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc; The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order; The state of being well arranged; The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure; ); "I gave the waiter my order" (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict" established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" place in a certain order; "order these files" bring order to or into; "Order these files" make a request for something; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage" 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" issue commands or orders for; {v} to bid, tell, direct, regulate, set apart; {n} a command, method, rule, rank, class; a request for food or refreshment as served in a restaurant or bar etc; a request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant or bar etc ); "I gave the waiter my order"; A direction of the adjudicating body on some matter; To give orders; to issue commands; Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order; 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; To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries; Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource; In the context of sensemaking, order refers to an organization or structure of information For example, an order might be an organization of elements into disjoint or overlapping classes, arrangement into a taxonomy, an organization in terms of objects and attributes, organization in terms of a table, or a precedence relation The term order is more general than the term ordering See also structuring; putting in order; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" (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 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" 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" a body of rules followed by an assembly (often plural) a command given by a superior (e; {i} 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; a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"; a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed; "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London" a request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant or bar etc; 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; 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"; To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end; putting in order; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"; Temporary in nature and used for many purposes: setting up investigative committees ( as distinguished from commissions), changes in rules and other parliamentary uses Formal motion in writing; A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp; A request to deliver specified quantities of goods or to render specific services Order line Each line on a customer's purchase order An order line always contains one Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) only, but the number may vary; A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction; To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance; 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; arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc ; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"; An instruction to purchase or sell an option, first transmitted to a broker office, and then submitted to the exchange floor for execution; A negotiable document Surrender of the original property endorsed is required by transportation lines upon delivery of the freight, in accordance with its terms; correct or proper actions or conduct in meetings of a house or committee a decision of the Senate or the House of Representatives by which the houses direct their committees, members, officers and their own actions; Instruction to a broker/dealer to buy, sell, deliver, or receive securities or commodities that commits the issuer of the "order" to the terms specified See: indication, inquiry, bid wanted, offer wanted; Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system Of material things, like the books in a library; established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"; a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order"; a body of rules followed by an assembly (often plural) a command given by a superior (e; (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate order"; In biology, a category that's part of the scientific system for grouping together related plants, animals and other organisms (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species) Order is the category that ranks below a class and above a family; a military or law enforcement officer that must be obeyed; "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London"; Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule; a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"; place in a certain order; "order these files"; a number of vertices in a graph; a document that requires the discharger to take specific action with an associated deadline It is authorized by statute, binding on the recipient, and directly enforceable by prosecution; bring order to or into; "Order these files"; a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit's block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc; A direction to carry out an action that has already been agreed to by the House Orders can be addressed to committees, or individual Members, or officials of the House When the House commands, it is by an "order," but fact, principles, and the Members' own opinions and purposes are expressed in the form of resolutions; a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order; Good arrangement; opposite to chaos; "I gave the waiter my order"

to order

Hyphenation

to or·der

Turkish pronunciation

tı ôrdır

Pronunciation

/tə ˈôrdər/ /tə ˈɔːrdɜr/

Etymology

[ t&, tu, 'tü ] (preposition.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English tO; akin to Old High German zuo to, Latin donec as long as, until.