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order
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)
- (countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- (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.
- 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,
- (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
- (countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
- (countable) A command.
- (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
- (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.
- (countable) An association of knights.
- Any group of people with common interests.
- (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.
- (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
- 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.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- (Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
- (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.
- (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
- (electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
- (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.
- 1911 [Cambridge University Press], William Burnside, Theory of Groups of Finite Order, 2nd Edition, Reprint, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2004, page 222,
- (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 of on average using field operations, assuming that has been factorised for .
- 1999, A. Ehrenfeucht, T. Harju, G. Rozenberg, The Theory of 2-structures, World Scientific, page 15,
- If is a finite group, its cardinality is called the order of . The order of an element is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer such that . The second case of the following result is known as Cauchy's theorem.
- Theorem 1.10 Let be a finite group.
- (i) The order of an element divides the order of the group.
- (ii) If a prime number divides , then there exists an element of order .
- 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.
- 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,
- (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
- (order theory) A partially ordered set.
- (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
- (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
- (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.
- 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 233:
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)
- (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
- (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
- (transitive) To issue a command to.
- (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
- 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)
- order (command)
- order (request for product or service)
Derived terms
- dagorder
- legerorder
- orderbrief
- postorder
German
Verb
order
- inflection of ordern:
- first-person singular present
- 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)
- order,
- a command.
- 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)
- 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
- an order; a command
- an order; a request for some product or service
Declension
Hyponyms
See also
- orden
Anagrams
- roder
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way
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: w?, IPA(key): /we?/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Homophones: weigh, wey, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English way, wey, from Old English we? (“way; path”), from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *we??-. Doublet of voe.
Alternative forms
- waye, waie (both obsolete)
Noun
way (plural ways)
- (heading) To do with a place or places.
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance
- "It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]
- "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [song title and lyrics, Bacharach and David]
- A means to enter or leave a place.
- A roughly-defined geographical area.
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
- A state or condition
- When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
- (heading) Personal interaction.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
- Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
- (Germanic paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
- To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
- (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
- Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
- A degree, an amount, a sense.
- (US, As the head of an interjectory clause, followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
- (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
- (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
Hyponyms
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:way
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
way
- (only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible
- Synonym: yes way
Verb
way (third-person singular simple present ways, present participle waying, simple past and past participle wayed)
- (obsolete) To travel.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge […] .
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
Etymology 2
Apheresis of away.
Alternative forms
- 'way, ’way (dated)
Adverb
way (not comparable)
- (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
- I'm way too tired to do that.
- I'm a way better singer than Emma.
- 2006, Keyboard, Volume 32, Issues 1-6, page 132,
- It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.
- (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
- I'm way tired.
- String theory is way cool, except for the math.
- 2005, Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts, page 16,
- With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?
- (informal) Far.
Synonyms
- (much): far, much, loads
- (very): so, very, so much
Derived terms
- way too
- way too many
- way too much
Translations
Etymology 3
From the sound it represents, by analogy with other (velar) letters such as kay and gay.
Noun
way (plural ways)
- The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms
- double-u
Anagrams
- Yaw, wya, yaw
Bobot
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Noun
way
- water
References
- "Bobot" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Highland Popoluca
Noun
way
- hair
References
- Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)?[4] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 115
Lampung Api
Etymology
From Proto-Lampungic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Noun
way
- water (clear liquid H?O)
Ojibwe
Particle
way
- exclamation
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/way-pc-disc
Tz'utujil
Noun
way
- tortilla
Synonyms
- away
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