Commanding and Ordering

commanding

Be in command of.
- usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
- synonyms: command
Make someone do something.
- synonyms: command, require
Demand as one's due.
- usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
- synonyms: command
Look down on.
- usage: "The villa dominates the town"
- synonyms: dominate, command, overlook, overtop
Exercise authoritative control or power over.
- usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
- synonyms: control, command

Used of a height or viewpoint.
- usage: "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
- synonyms: dominating, overlooking

(a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
(a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
(a.) Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Command.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

ordering

Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements.
- usage: "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
- synonyms: order, ordination
The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement.
- usage: "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"
- synonyms: order

Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.
- usage: "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"
- synonyms: order, tell, enjoin, say
Make a request for something.
- usage: "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"
- synonyms: order
Issue commands or orders for.
- synonyms: order, prescribe, dictate
Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.
- usage: "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
- synonyms: regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern
Bring order to or into.
- usage: "Order these files"
- synonyms: order
Place in a certain order.
- usage: "order the photos chronologically"
- synonyms: order
Appoint to a clerical posts.
- usage: "he was ordained in the Church"
- synonyms: ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order
Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events.
- usage: "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
- synonyms: arrange, set up, put, order
Assign a rank or rating to.
- usage: "how would you rank these students"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
- synonyms: rate, rank, range, order, grade, place

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary