order


Meanings

  • (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"
  • 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"
  • established customary state (especially of society);
    • "order ruled in the streets"
    • "law and order"
  • logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements;
    • "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
  • a condition of regular or proper arrangement;
    • "he put his desk in order"
    • "the machine is now in working order"
  • 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 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 formal association of people with similar interests;
    • "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
  • a body of rules followed by an assembly
  • (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy;
  • a group of person living under a religious rule;
    • "the order of Saint Benedict"
  • (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
  • 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"
  • (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
  • the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement;
    • "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"
  • give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority;
    • "She ordered him to do the shopping"
  • make a request for something;
    • "order a work stoppage"
  • issue commands or orders for
  • bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations;
  • bring order to or into;
  • place in a certain order;
    • "order the photos chronologically"
  • appoint to a clerical posts;
  • arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events;
  • assign a rank or rating to;
  • ORDER v -ED, -ING, -S to give a command or instruction to


Scrabble Score: 6

order is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

order is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

order is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary


Words With Friends Score: 6

order is a valid Words With Friends word