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"
- Make a request for something.
- usage: "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"
- synonyms: order
- Issue commands or orders for.
- 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"
- Assign a rank or rating to.
- usage: "how would you rank these students"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
adjective
- Having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule.
- usage: "an ordered sequence"
- Disposed or placed in a particular kind of order.
- usage: "the carefully arranged chessmen"; "haphazardly arranged interlobular septa"; "comfortable chairs arranged around the fireplace"
- synonyms: arranged
- Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts.
- usage: "a coherent argument"
- synonyms: coherent, consistent, logical