I.
1.
a.
(1)
< an order of spirits who abuse and persecute those they possess — Ralph Linton >
(2) sometimes capitalized
(3) orders plural
< in deacon's orders >
(4)
< received orders >
(5) often capitalized
< the order of baptism >
b.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
< the Masonic Order >
< the Order of Gregg Artists is the largest and best-known shorthand organization in the world — Florence E. Ulrich >
< a secret order of conspirators >
c.
(1)
< there are two main orders, the natural aristocracy and the common people — C.J.Friedrich >
— often used in the phrases higher orders, lower orders
< the lower orders of whites were all but beyond the reach of democracy — Van Wyck Brooks >
(2)
< the first two orders, the clergy and the nobility — D.W.S.Lidderdale >
< the order of baronets >
(3)
< inclined to oppose radical changes in the established order — American Guide Series: Maine >
< symbols of the decaying orders they headed — Claude Pepper >
< the ceremonies are part of the traditional order — British Book News >
d.
(1) archaic
(2)
< a world power of the first order — S.L.Sharp >
< the productions booked for these communities were of a low order — American Guide Series: Michigan >
< realism of the highest order — A.L.Guérard >
(3)
< there is an order or mind which is perpetually modern — Edith Hamilton >
< cultivated after his fashion the order of verse — Times Literary Supplement >
< in the same order of ideas — O.G.Frazer >
< in emergencies of this order — R.B.Westerfield >
< revolutions are a different order of events — John Strachey >
< presents a problem of the severest order — J.B.Gallagher >
e.
(1)
(2)
< Corinthian order >
< Doric order >
(3)
f.
(1)
(2)
< derivatives of higher order >
(3)
(4)
(5)
< the order of a matrix with 2 rows and 3 columns is 2 by 3 >
(6)
g.
(1)
< lines, of the order of one third of an inch in diameter — R.E.Coker >
(2)
< a population of the order of 40,000 — W.G.East >
< all explosions were divided into two general types — low order and high — H.A.Holsinger >
< at a date of the order of 50,000 years ago — R.C.Murphy >
< the time period is of the order of a thousand years — A.N.Whitehead >
h.
i.
< a grating spectrum of the third order >
j.
(1)
(2)
< a predicate of a higher order >
k.
< zonal order >
< intrazonal order >
l.
< the bilabials \p\, \b\, \m\ belong to the same order >
2.
a.
(1)
< let me tell of these events in their order >
< were issued in a strange order — Edward Sackville-West & Desmond Shawe-Taylor >
(2)
< good to know the goods in their order — R.M.Hutchins >
< osmium, iridium and platinum in that order are the three heaviest metals known — W.R.Jones >
< necessary to establish some order of importance — G.P.Wibberley >
< the children came in proper order, first the oldest, then their juniors >
(3)
b.
(1)
< the contemporary economic order >
< our political order >
< should take the lead in reconstructing the social order — Paul Woodring >
< whose loyalty to the English order of things was suspect — American Guide Series: Michigan >
also
< the new order in literary criticism >
(2) obsolete
(3)
< rose to a point of order >
< a book on the rules of order >
(4)
< your motion is out of order >
< the amendment was inconsistent with the resolution and hence out of order — Walter Goodman >
(5)
< will the meeting please come to order >
— compare call to order
c.
(1)
< the troops retired in good order >
< in his order of battle his center … was pushed forward — Tom Wintringham >
(2)
< there was a feminine order in the arrangement — Jean Stafford >
< a world whose lack of order … must inspire them with a certain fear — Herbert Read >
< the stuff of our lives is … a tangled web, yet in the end there is order — Havelock Ellis >
(3)
< a lover of order >
< values rank and station and order above other things in politics — R.G.F.Robinson >
< the sense of order we associate with the medieval world — Wallace Fowlie >
(4)
< restore order in a lawless community >
< the victory of order … must be assured at all costs — Times Literary Supplement >
(5) archaic
(6)
< a square grand piano in good order — D.D.Martin >
< found the equipment in the worst possible order >
< erect and maintain in good order a gate — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa) >
(7)
< the finances and plans of the … institute have been set in order — W.G.Penfield >
< the telephone is out of order >
< had his place put in order — Everett Lloyd >
< his passport is not in order >
(8)
< this retraction is in order — Alexander MacDonald >
< your suggestion is completely out of order >
< technically, his conviction was in order — S.H.Adams >
< nominations for president are now in order >
(9)
d.
3.
a.
(1)
< the Board of Aldermen will also be asked to adopt an order — Springfield (Massachusetts) Daily News >
(2)
< refusal to recognize the authority of the emperor amounted to a refusal to take orders — Clyde Pharr >
< an executive order >
< under order to sail for home >
(3)
b.
(1)
(2)
< orders from the seven canners had been too small — Pacific Fisherman >
< engines built to the order of the Ministry of Supply — O.S.Nock >
3.
c.
d.
(1)
(2)
4.
a.
(1)
< should receive your order promptly — Sarah Taintor & Kate Monro >
< the order arrived in good condition >
(2)
< bring me my order right away >
< one order of mashed potatoes >
also
< the waitress will take your order now >
b.
< this is a large order, which would seem to require a much longer book — K.E.Poole >
< trying to move loose horses through snow was almost as tall an order — H.L.Davis >
•
- in order that
- in order to
- on the order of
- to order
[II.
transitive verb
1.
a.
(1)
< orders the arts and sciences according to their value in his Christian system — H.O.Taylor >
(2) archaic
(3)
< ordered her dress — D.C.Peattie >
b.
< ordered his affairs to the tempo of an earlier day — American Guide Series: Ind. >
< the marshal controlled and ordered the hall — Doris M. Stenton >
< unwilling and unable to order their economy in effective fashion — E.S.Furniss b. 1918 >
2.
3.
a.
< ordered the troops to advance >
: require or direct (something) to be done
< dissolving the Diet and ordering new elections — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink >
b.
< it was so ordered of God >
c.
< was ordered to a distant post >
< ordered home for misbehavior >
d.
< having forgotten to order his chauffeur — Cleveland Amory >
< order a meal >
< order groceries >
e.
< the doctor ordered rest and exercise >
4. dialect chiefly England
a.
b.
c.
5.
intransitive verb
1.
< a renascence of the spirit that orders and controls — H.G.Wells >
2.
a.
< your turn to order next week >
b.
< be sure to order before it's too late >
3.
< slacks are ordering with renewed strength — Women's Wear Daily >
Synonyms:
< the ceremony is not well ordered; in fact there is here no single ceremony but a group of separate little rituals — C.L.Jones >
< life as it came to him without conscious ordering — Virginia Woolf >
< free to order their affairs as they choose — W.L.Sperry >
< trees, lawns, terraces, rock gardens, paved walks, and many benches, all cleverly ordered in harmonious composition — American Guide Series: New York City >
arrange is usually used to apply to a putting of things in a proper, fit, or pleasing sequence or relationship, often by straightening up or adjusting to fixed circumstantial things, sometimes, however, suggesting contrivance or manipulation of things to a given end
< arrange the articles on a desk >
< each of us arranges the world according to his own notion of the fitness of things — Joseph Conrad >
< made his bed and arranged his room — Willa Cather >
< the distressingly difficult task of arranging a peaceful world — K.F.Mather >
< arrange things so that Father could go to Santa Fe — Mary Austin >
marshal implies an assembling and arranging (of things, or sometimes diverse elements of a thing) especially in preparation for or to facilitate a particular move or operation
< resources of the government have been marshaled in support of science — A.T.Waterman >
< marshals his facts and arguments with lucidity and detachment — Times Literary Supplement >
< marshaled the evidence in his client's behalf — H.D.Hazeltine >
< marshal a case before going into court >
organize implies an arrangement in which several or many parts function in smooth interrelation
< our most successful historians … can organize their materials clearly and cogently — W.G.Carleton >
< man, as a highly organized whole — H.J.Muller >
< organized the hospital work of the Crimean war — G.B.Shaw >
< the daily routine was gradually organized after a fashion — André Maurois >
systematize implies arrangement according to a predetermined scheme
< if grammar was to become a rational science, it had to systematize itself through principles of logic — H.O.Taylor >
< everything was systematized to an extraordinary extent. There was a way for doing everything, or rather sixteen, or thirty-six, or some other consecrated number of ways, each distinct and defined and each with a name — Laurence Binyon >
methodize differs from systematize in suggesting more the imposition of orderly procedure than a fixed scheme
< modern criticism has developed a number of specialized procedures of its own and methodized them, sometimes on the analogy of scientific procedure — S.E.Hyman >
Synonym: see in addition command.
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1.
2.