Commit and Order

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

• Often plural) a command given by a superior (e. G., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed. (
  • usage: "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London"
• A degree in a continuum of size or quantity.
  • usage: "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude"
  • synonyms: order of magnitude
• Established customary state (especially of society. )
  • usage: "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"
• Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements.
  • usage: "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
  • synonyms: ordering, ordination
• A condition of regular or proper arrangement.
  • usage: "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order"
  • synonyms: orderliness
• A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge. )
  • usage: "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
  • synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, rescript
• A commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities.
  • usage: "IBM received an order for a hundred computers"
  • synonyms: purchase order
• A formal association of people with similar interests.
  • usage: "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
  • synonyms: club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge
• A body of rules followed by an assembly.
  • synonyms: rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure
• Usually plural. ( the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy)
  • usage: "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order"
  • synonyms: Holy Order
• A group of person living under a religious rule.
  • usage: "the order of Saint Benedict"
  • synonyms: monastic order
• Biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families. (
• A request for something to be made, supplied, or served.
  • usage: "I gave the waiter my order"; "the company's products were in such demand that they got more orders than their call center could handle"
• 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. (
• The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement.
  • usage: "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"
  • synonyms: ordering

verb

• 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: tell, enjoin, say
• Make a request for something.
  • usage: "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"
• Issue commands or orders for.
  • synonyms: 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, govern
• Bring order to or into.
  • usage: "Order these files"
• Place in a certain order.
  • usage: "order the photos chronologically"
• Appoint to a clerical posts.
  • usage: "he was ordained in the Church"
  • synonyms: ordain, consecrate, ordinate
• 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
• 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, grade, place

• (n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry.
• (n.) To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.
• (n.) Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system.
• (n.) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
• (n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment or the like; as, orders for blankets are large.
• (n.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
• (n.) To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
• (n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.
• (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; especially, a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.
• (n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
• (n.) Right arrangement; a normal, correct or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
• (n.) 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 group or division of men in the same social or other position; also, a distinct character, kind or sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order.
• (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.
• (n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
• (n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
• (v.i.) To give orders; to issue commands.
• (n.) A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
• (n.) Of material things, like the books in a library.
• (n.) The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.
• (n.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
• (n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
• (n.) To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.

Order is a set of instructions with the intent of executing a transaction. The following is a list of order types. See: All or None (AON) or All or Nothing, Buy on Close, Buy on Opening, Contingent, Discretionary, Non-Discretionary, Do Not Reduce (DNR), Exchange for Physicals (EFP), Fill or Kill (FOK), Good Till Canceled (GTC), Immediate or Cancel (IOC), Limit (LMT), Market, Market if Touched (MIT), Market on Close (MOC), Market on Opening, Not Held, One Cancels the Other (OCO), Open Order, Sell on Close, Sell on Opening, Stop (STP), Stop Limit (STP LMT), and various combinations as with spreads, options, and other instruments.

(DoD, NATO) A communication, written, oral, or by signal, which conveys instructions from a superior to a subordinate. (DoD) In a broad sense, the terms "order" and "command" are synonymous. However, an order implies discretion as to the details of execution whereas a command does not.