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
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
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
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