HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| Sounds | ao'rder |
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| Rhymes | adder, alder, Alexander, and 198 more rhymes in der... |
| Meaning | (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed. |
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| Examples | "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London" |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| Usage | plural, plural form |
| Broader | command, bid, bidding, dictation |
| Narrower | marching orders; summons; word |
| Verbs | order; order |
| Meaning | A degree in a continuum of size or quantity. |
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| Examples | "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude" |
| Synonyms | order of magnitude |
| Broader | magnitude |
| Verbs | order |
| Meaning | Established customary state (especially of society). |
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| Examples | "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" |
| Contrary | disorder |
| Broader | state |
| Narrower | civil order, polity; rule of law; tranquillity, tranquility, quiet; harmony, concord, concordance; stability; peace |
| Adjectives | orderly; orderly |
| Verbs | order |
| Meaning | Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements. |
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| Examples | "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" |
| Synonyms | ordering, ordination |
| Broader | arrangement |
| Narrower | bacteria order; word order; genetic code; genome; series |
| Adjectives | orderly |
| Verbs | order; order; order |
| Meaning | A condition of regular or proper arrangement. |
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| Examples | "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order" |
| Synonyms | orderliness |
| Contrary | disorderliness, disorder |
| Broader | condition, status |
| Narrower | spit and polish; kilter, kelter; tidiness |
| Meaning | A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge). |
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| Examples | "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" |
| Synonyms | decree, edict, fiat, rescript |
| Category | law, jurisprudence |
| Broader | act, enactment |
| Narrower | consent decree; curfew; decree nisi; imperial decree; legal separation, judicial separation; programma; prohibition, ban, proscription; stay; bull, papal bull |
| Verbs | order; order |
| Meaning | A commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities. |
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| Examples | "IBM received an order for a hundred computers" |
| Synonyms | purchase order |
| Broader | commercial document, commercial instrument |
| Narrower | credit order, bill-me order; indent; market order; production order; reorder; stop order, stop-loss order; stop payment; mail order |
| Verbs | order |
| Meaning | A formal association of people with similar interests. |
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| Examples | "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" |
| Synonyms | club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge |
| Members | club member |
| Broader | association |
| Narrower | athenaeum, atheneum; bookclub; chapter; chess club; country club; fraternity, frat; glee club; golf club; hunt, hunt club; investors club; jockey club; racket club; rowing club; slate club; sorority; turnverein; yacht club, boat club; service club |
| Verbs | order |
| Meaning | A body of rules followed by an assembly. |
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| Synonyms | rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure |
| Category of | proposer, mover |
| Broader | rule, prescript |
| Narrower | interpellation; standing order; closure, cloture, gag rule, gag law; point of order; previous question |
| Instances | Robert's Rules of Order |
| Meaning | (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy. |
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| Examples | "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order" |
| Synonyms | Holy Order |
| Broader | status, position |
| Narrower | acolyte; anagnost; deacon; doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius; exorcist; lector, reader; priest; subdeacon |
| Meaning | A group of person living under a religious rule. |
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| Examples | "the order of Saint Benedict" |
| Synonyms | monastic order |
| Broader | sect, religious sect, religious order |
| Narrower | Augustinian order; Benedictine order, order of Saint Benedict; Carmelite order, Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; Carthusian order; Dominican order; Franciscan order; Society of Jesus, Jesuit order |
| Meaning | (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families. |
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| Member of | class |
| Members | suborder; family |
| Category | biology, biological science |
| Broader | taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon |
| Narrower | animal order; protoctist order; plant order; fungus order |
| Adjectives | ordinal |
| Meaning | A request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant or bar etc.). |
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| Examples | "I gave the waiter my order" |
| Broader | request, asking |
| Narrower | short order |
| Verbs | order |
| Meaning | (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. |
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| Category | architecture |
| Broader | artistic style, idiom |
| Narrower | Doric order, Dorian order; Ionic order, Ionian order; Corinthian order; Composite order; Tuscan order |
| Meaning | The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement. |
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| Examples | "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" |
| Synonyms | ordering |
| Broader | organization, organisation |
| Narrower | rank order; scaling, grading; succession, sequence; layout; alphabetization, alphabetisation |
| Verbs | order; order; order |
| Meaning | Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
| Model | They order him to write the letter |
| Examples | "She ordered him to do the shopping" |
| Synonyms | tell, enjoin, say |
| Broader | request |
| Narrower | direct; instruct; command, require, compel; call, send for; warn |
| Nouns | order; order |
| Meaning | Make a request for something. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
| Examples | "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage" |
| Broader | request, bespeak, call for, quest |
| Narrower | reorder; place; call; wish; commission |
| Nouns | order; orderer; order; order |
| Meaning | Issue commands or orders for. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | prescribe, dictate |
| Broader | inflict, bring down, visit, impose |
| Narrower | mandate |
| Nouns | order; order |
| Meaning | Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage. Impose regulations. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | regulate, regularize, regularise, govern |
| Contrary | deregulate |
| Broader | decide, make up one's mind, determine |
| Narrower | standardize, standardise; zone, district |
| Nouns | order |
| Meaning | Bring order to or into. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "Order these files" |
| Contrary | disorder, disarray |
| Broader | arrange, set up |
| Narrower | tidy, tidy up, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square away; systematize, systematise, systemize, systemise; collate; disentangle, unsnarl, straighten out |
| Nouns | order; order, ordering; orderer |
| Meaning | Place in a certain order. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Examples | "order these files" |
| Broader | arrange, set up |
| Nouns | order; order, ordering; orderer |
| Meaning | Appoint to a clerical posts. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP |
| Synonyms | ordain, consecrate, ordinate |
| Broader | invest, vest, enthrone |
| Nouns | order |
| Meaning | Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | arrange, set up, put |
| Broader | organize, organise |
| Narrower | synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise; phrase |
| Nouns | ordering, order |
| Meaning | Assign a rank or rating to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Synonyms | rate, rank, range, grade, place |
| Broader | evaluate, pass judgment, judge |
| Narrower | superordinate; shortlist; seed; reorder; subordinate; prioritize, prioritise; sequence; downgrade; upgrade |
| Nouns | order; ordering |
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