order
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(verb) place in a certain order; "order these files" |
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Related Words: arrange, set up |
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(verb) bring order to or into; "Order these files" |
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Related Words: arrange, clean up, collate, collect, disentangle, neaten, route, set up, square away, straighten, straighten out, systematize, systemize, tidy, tidy up, unsnarl |
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Antonyms: disorder |
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(verb) make a request for something; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage" |
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Related Words: bespeak, call, call for, commission, place, quest, request, wish |
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(verb) tell somebody to do something; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping" |
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Synonyms: enjoin, say, tell |
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Related Words: call, command, compel, direct, instruct, request, require, send for |
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(verb) issue commands or orders for |
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Synonyms: dictate, prescribe |
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Related Words: bring down, impose, inflict, visit |
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(noun) putting in order; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" |
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Synonyms: ordering |
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Related Words: alphabetisation, alphabetization, arrangement, grading, layout, organisation, organization, rank order, scaling, sequence, succession |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: order of magnitude |
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Related Words: magnitude |
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(noun) a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment; "IBM received an order for a hundred computers" |
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Synonyms: purchase order |
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Related Words: bill-me order, commercial document, commercial instrument, credit order, indent, mail order, market order, stop order, stop payment, stop-loss order |
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(noun) a body of rules followed by an assembly |
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Synonyms: parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order |
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Related Words: closure, cloture, gag rule, interpellation, point of order, prescript, previous question, rule, standing order |
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(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" |
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Related Words: bid, bidding, command, dictation, summons, word |
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(noun) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families |
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Related Words: animal order, fungus order, plant order, protoctist order, taxon, taxonomic group |
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(noun) established customary state esp. of society; "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" |
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Related Words: civil order, concord, concordance, harmony, peace, polity, quiet, rule of law, stability, state, tranquillity |
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Antonyms: disorder |
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(noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements of a group; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" |
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Synonyms: ordering |
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Related Words: arrangement, bacteria order, series, word order |
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(noun) a condition of regular or proper arrangement: "he put his desk in order"; "put the chessmen in order" |
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Synonyms: orderliness |
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Related Words: condition, spit and polish, status, tidiness |
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Antonyms: disorder |
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(verb) of clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" |
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Synonyms: consecrate, ordain |
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Related Words: enthrone, invest, vest |
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(verb) impose regulations on |
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Synonyms: govern, regularize, regulate |
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Related Words: decide, determine, district, make up one's mind, normalize, standardize, zone |
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(verb) assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?" |
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Synonyms: grade, place, range, rank, rate |
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Related Words: downgrade, judge, prioritize, reorder, seed, sequence, shortlist, subordinate, upgrade |
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(verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule;" "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" |
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Synonyms: arrange, put, set up |
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Related Words: contemporize, synchronize |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, rescript |
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Related Words: act, ban, curfew, decree nisi, enactment, imperial decree, interdiction, judicial separation, legal separation, programma, prohibition, proscription, stay |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, society |
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Related Words: American Legion, VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars, association, athenaeum, atheneum, bookclub, chapter, chess club, country club, frat, fraternity, glee club, golf club, hunt, hunt club, jockey club, racket club, rowing club, secret society, service club, slate club, sorority, tennis club, turnverein, yacht club |
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