different between command vs ordre

English

Etymology

From Middle English commanden, commaunden, comaunden, comanden, from Old French comander (modern French commander), from Vulgar Latin *commandare, from Latin commendare, from com- + mandare, from mand? (“I order, command”). Compare commend (a doublet), and mandate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??m??nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??mænd/
• Hyphenation: com?mand

Noun

command (countable and uncountable, plural commands)

1. An order to do something.

   I was given a command to cease shooting.

2. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.

   to have command of an army
3. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.

   he had command of the situation

   England has long held command of the sea

   a good command of language
4. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.

   General Smith was placed in command.

5. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
   • 1851, Herbert Spencer, Social Statics, p. 180

     Command cannot be otherwise than savage, for it implies an appeal to force, should force be needful.

6. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
7. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
8. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
9. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.

   He's got good command tonight.

10. A command performance.
    • 1809, Dorothy Jordan, letter, cited in Claire Tomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, Penguin 2012, p. 220:

      Atkinson […] had hinted to me that the Duke of Richmond was so delighted with my acting that he should not be surprised if there was a second command.

Translations

See also

• imperative mood

References

• Command on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

command (third-person singular simple present commands, present participle commanding, simple past and past participle commanded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.

   The soldier was commanded to cease firing.

   The king commanded his servant to bring him dinner.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Revenge

     We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.

   to command an army or a ship
3. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.

   he commanded silence

   • 2013, Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing (in The Guardian, 20 August 2013)[1]

     The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.

4. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.

   Bridges commanded by a fortified house. (Motley.)

5. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.

   A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people.

   Justice commands the respect and affections of the people.

   The best goods command the best price.

   This job commands a salary of £30,000.

6. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.

   The fort commanded the bay.

   • Two wooden bridges led across the river; each was commanded by a fortified house

   • December 1699, Joseph Addison, letter to William Congreve

     One [side] commands a view of the finest garden.

   • 1834, The Hobart Town Magazine (volume 2, page 323)

     […] they made considerable progress in the art of embalming the wild fruits of their native land, so that they might command cranberries and hindberries at all times and seasons.

7. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
8. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

Synonyms

• (give an order): decree, order

Translations

Derived terms

References

• command in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “command”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

English

Noun

ordre (countable and uncountable, plural ordres)

1. Obsolete form of order.

Verb

ordre (third-person singular simple present ordres, present participle ordring, simple past and past participle ordred)

1. Obsolete form of order.

Anagrams

• Doerr, Order, Roder, derro, order

Catalan

Etymology

From alteration of Old Catalan orde, from Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin ?rdo, ?rdinem. Compare Occitan ordre and French ordre.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /???.d??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /??r.d??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?o?.d?e/

Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)

1. order, organization

   Antonym: desordre

Derived terms

• desordre
• Nou Ordre Mundial
• ordre alfabètic

Noun

ordre f (plural ordres)

1. order, command
2. (computing) command

Derived terms

• ordre d'arrest

Related terms

• orde
• ordenar

Further reading

• “ordre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ordre” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ordre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ordre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From French ordre, from Latin ?rd? (“order”). Doublet of orden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?dr?/, [???d???]

Noun

ordre c (singular definite ordren, plural indefinite ordrer)

1. order (command,)
2. order (request for some product or service)

Inflection

Derived terms

• beordre
• ordrebeholdning
• købsordre
• marchordre
• ordrebeholdning
• postordre

Further reading

• “ordre” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French ordre, ordene, borrowed from Latin ?rdinem (accusative of ?rdo). Doublet of the inherited orne, now a regional term with a specialized agricultural sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?/

Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)

1. order (way in which things are arranged)

   ordre alphabétique - alphabetical order

   ordre des mots - word order

2. order (group)

   les ordres militaires - military orders

3. (law) order (calm)
4. region (used in estimations)

   un chiffre de l'ordre de 2 millions - a number in the region of 2 million/a number around 2 million/2 million or so

5. kind, sort
6. order (tidiness)
7. order (instruction)

   Il m'a donné l'ordre de tirer - he gave me the order to shoot

   sur ordre du gouvernement - under the government's orders

8. (finance) order
9. (taxonomy) order

   c'est de l'ordre des siréniens - from the order of sirenians

10. (architecture) classical order

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: ordre
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: ordre
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: ordre

Further reading

• “ordre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dorer, roder, rôder

German

Verb

ordre

1. inflection of ordern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Noun

ordre

1. (rare) Alternative form of ordure

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ordo, via French ordre

Noun

ordre m (definite singular ordren, indefinite plural ordrer, definite plural ordrene)

1. an order (command, instruction)
2. an order (for goods)

References

• “ordre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French ordre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rdr?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

ordre m (definite singular ordren, indefinite plural ordrar, definite plural ordrane)

1. order, command
2. order (request for some product or service)

References

• “ordre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin ordo, ordinem.

Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)

1. order (command; instruction)

Related terms

• ordenar