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English

Alternative forms

• ordre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ?rdinem, accusative of ?rd? (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ored-, *oreð- (“to arrange”), of unknown origin. Related to Latin ?rdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d?/, [?????]
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /???d?(r)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)
• Hyphenation: or?der

Noun

order (countable and uncountable, plural orders)

1. (countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

2. (countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
   • 1897, T. L. Heath (translator), Eutocius of Ascalon, Extract from a commentary by Eutocius, quoted in 1897 [CUP], T. L. Heath (editor), The Works of Archimedes, 2002, Dover, unnumbered page,

     His attempt I shall also give in its order.
3. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.

4. (countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.

5. (countable) A command.
6. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
7. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.

8. (countable) An association of knights.

9. Any group of people with common interests.
10. (countable) 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.
11. (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.

12. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
    • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

      They are in equal order to their several ends.

    • 1726, George Granville, The British Enchanters

      Various orders various ensigns bear.

    • […] which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.

13. (Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.

14. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
15. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
16. (electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

17. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
18. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
    • 1911 [Cambridge University Press], William Burnside, Theory of Groups of Finite Order, 2nd Edition, Reprint, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2004, page 222,

      In this case, the conjugate set contains n(n ? 1)/x(x ? 1) distinct sub-groups of order m, and H is therefore self-conjugate in a group K of order x(x ? l)m.

    • 2000, Michael Aschbacher, Finite Group Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, page 260,

      For various reasons it turns out to be better to enlarge this set of invariants to include suitable normalizers of subgroups of odd prime order.

19. (group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ? G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gⁿ = e, where e is the identity element of G; if no such number exists, the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
    • 1997, Frank Celler, C. R. Leedham-Green, Calculating the Order of an Invertible Matrix, Larry Finkelstein, William M. Kantor (editors), Groups and Computation II, American Mathematical Society, page 55,

      The object of this note is to observe that it is possible to calculate the order of an element ${\displaystyle A}$ of ${\displaystyle G={\mathit {GL}}(d,q)}$ on average using ${\displaystyle O(d^{3}{\mathsf {log}}\ q)}$ field operations, assuming that ${\displaystyle q^{i}-1}$ has been factorised for ${\displaystyle i\leq d}$.

    • 1999, A. Ehrenfeucht, T. Harju, G. Rozenberg, The Theory of 2-structures, World Scientific, page 15,

      If ${\displaystyle \Delta }$ is a finite group, its cardinality is called the order of ${\displaystyle \Delta }$. The order of an element ${\displaystyle a\in \Delta }$ is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer ${\displaystyle n}$ such that ${\displaystyle a^{n}=1_{\Delta }}$. The second case of the following result is known as Cauchy's theorem.

      Theorem 1.10 Let ${\displaystyle \Delta }$ be a finite group.

      (i) The order of an element ${\displaystyle a\in \Delta }$ divides the order ${\displaystyle |\Delta |}$ of the group.

      (ii) If a prime number ${\displaystyle p}$ divides ${\displaystyle |\Delta |}$, then there exists an element ${\displaystyle a\in \Delta }$ of order ${\displaystyle p}$.

    • 2010, A. R. Vasishta, A. K. Vasishta, Modern Algebra, Krishna Prakashan Media, 60th Edition, page 180,

      Since in a finite group the order of an element must be a divisor of the order of the group, therefore o (a) cannot be 3 and so we must have o (a)=4=the order of the group G.

20. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
21. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
22. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
23. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.

24. (finance) A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
    • 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 233:

      I then walked to Cochrane's & got an order on Sir Charles Asgill for my money.

Quotations

• 1611, Bible, King James Version, Luke, 1:i:

  Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us […] .

• 1973, Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching, Addison-Wesley, chapter 8:

  Since only two of our tape drives were in working order, I was ordered to order more tape units in short order, in order to order the data several orders of magnitude faster.

Synonyms

• (taxonomy): ordo

Antonyms

• chaos

Hypernyms

• denomination

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of order theory

Further reading

• order on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Order (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cauchy's theorem (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lagrange's theorem (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (taxonomy): Taxonomic rank#Ranks in botany on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

order (third-person singular simple present orders, present participle ordering, simple past and past participle ordered)

1. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.

2. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.

3. (transitive) To issue a command to.

4. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

5. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

   • persons presented to be ordered deacons

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (arrange into some sort of order): sort, rank
• (issue a command): command

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• ordain
• orderly
• ordinal
• ordinary

Anagrams

• Doerr, Roder, derro, ordre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ordre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.d?r/
• Hyphenation: or?der

Noun

order m or f or n (plural orders)

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

Derived terms

• dagorder
• legerorder
• orderbrief
• postorder

German

Verb

order

1. inflection of ordern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch order, from from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ?rdinem, accusative of ?rd? (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”). Doublet of orde and ordo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r.d?r]
• Hyphenation: or?dêr

Noun

ordêr (first-person possessive orderku, second-person possessive ordermu, third-person possessive ordernya)

1. order,
   1. a command.
   2. a request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

      Synonym: pesanan

Derived terms

Further reading

• “order” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Polish

Etymology

From Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ?rdinem, accusative of ?rd? (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.d?r/

Noun

order m inan (diminutive orderek, augmentative orderzysko)

1. order (decoration awarded by government or other authority)

   Synonym: odznaczenie

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) orderowa?, uorderowa?, wyorderowa?
• (nouns) orderowiec, orderomania
• (adjective) orderowy

Related terms

• (noun) ordereczek

Further reading

• order in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• order in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rd?r/

Noun

order c

1. an order; a command
2. an order; a request for some product or service

Declension

Hyponyms

See also

• orden

Anagrams

• roder

English

Etymology

From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-Germanic *stapjan? (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stab- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”). Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish st?pa? (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ??????? (stupat?) and Polish stopie? (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian ??????? (stepen?). Related to stamp, stomp.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /st?p/
• Hyphenation: step
• Rhymes: -?p
• Homophone: steppe

Noun

step (plural steps)

1. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:step.
2. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
   • 1624, Sir Henry Wotton, The Elements Of Architecture

     The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:step.
3. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.

4. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.

5. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.

   • To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.

6. A small space or distance.

7. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
8. A gait; manner of walking.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:step.
9. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
   • 1717, Alexander Pope, Preface to his collection of poems

     The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.

   • c. 1792, William Cowper, The Needless Alarm

     Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.

   • 1879, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days

     I have lately taken steps […] to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Moon has also requested that government officials take additional steps to help fight pollution, his spokesman said.

10. (in the plural) A walk; passage.

    • Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.

11. (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
12. (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
13. (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
14. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
15. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.

    Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.

16. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of William Kingdon Clifford to this entry?)

17. (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.

18. (slang) A stepsibling.

Synonyms

• stride

Hyponyms

• back step, half step, etc. see under back, half, etc.
• cyclic step

Derived terms

• cross-step (a step in which one foot is crossed over another; the action of taking such a step or steps)
• step-by-step
• step-free
• stepmeal
• stepwise

Related terms

Translations

Verb

step (third-person singular simple present steps, present participle stepping, simple past stepped or (dated) stept or (obsolete) stope, past participle stepped or (dated) stept or (obsolete) stopen)

1. (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
2. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.

3. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

   • Home from his Morning-Task , the Swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
5. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
   • 2010, Charles E. Miller, Winds of Mercy: 40 Short Stories (page 219)

     One of the women, Elsie, stepped her foot inside to help the woman.

6. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
   • 1898, Joseph Conrad, Youth

     We put everything straight, stepped the long-boat's mast for our skipper, who was in charge of her, and I was not sorry to sit down for a moment.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• step-

Further reading

• step in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• step at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, Pest, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pest, pets, sept, sept-, spet

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?p/

Etymology 1

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Noun

step f

1. steppe

Declension

Etymology 2

From English step

Noun

step m inanimate

1. tap dance

Declension

Further reading

• step in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• step in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English step (“footrest on a bicycle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?p/
• Hyphenation: step
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

step f (plural steps, diminutive stepje n)

1. kick scooter

   Synonyms: autoped, trottinette

2. (dated) A mounting bracket on a bicycle.

Derived terms

• steppen

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s(?)t?p/
• Hyphenation: stèp

Etymology 1

From English step, from Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-Germanic *stapjan? (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stab- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”).

Noun

stèp (first-person possessive stepku, second-person possessive stepmu, third-person possessive stepnya)

1. step; pace, gait.

Etymology 2

From Dutch stuip (“convulsion”), from Middle Dutch st?pe, stupen, stuypen (“convulsion”, literally “to duck, to bend down”), from Old English stupian (“to stoop, bend over”) (compare to English stoop (“to bend”)), from Old Norse stúpa, from Proto-Germanic *st?p?n?, *st?pijan? (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”).

Noun

stèp (first-person possessive stepku, second-person possessive stepmu, third-person possessive stepnya)

1. (colloquial, medicine) convulsion.

   Synonym: setip

   Synonyms: sawan, kejang

Further reading

• “step” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

step

1. Alternative form of steppe

Polish

Etymology

From Ukrainian ???? (step).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?p/

Noun

step m inan

1. (often in the plural) steppe

Declension

Further reading

• step in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• step in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From English step.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?step/, [?st?ep]

• IPA^(key): /es?tep/, [es?t?ep]

Noun

step m (uncountable)

1. step training