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1. An ecclesiastical organization or group of who live together for the purpose of fulfilling their spiritual obligations, responsibilities, or commitments: A young nurse joined a religious order in her quest to fulfill her dream of working with poor people so they will be able to survive the rigors of poverty.
2. The food and drinks that a person has requested at a restaurant: James was told by the waitress that his order would be ready in a few minutes.
3. A group of related plants or animals which is larger than a family: Humans. apes, monkeys, and similar members belong to the order of Primates.
4. An instruction or statement from a person with authority which tells others to do something: The captain of the ship was yelling orders to the crew to get the vessel ready for departure from the harbor.
2. The food and drinks that a person has requested at a restaurant: James was told by the waitress that his order would be ready in a few minutes.
3. A group of related plants or animals which is larger than a family: Humans. apes, monkeys, and similar members belong to the order of Primates.
4. An instruction or statement from a person with authority which tells others to do something: The captain of the ship was yelling orders to the crew to get the vessel ready for departure from the harbor.
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ord-, ordinato-, -ordin-, -ordinate, -ordinating, -ordinated
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order (verb), orders; ordered; ordering
To state or demand that something must be done: The solders were ordered back to the base.
The firemen ordered everyone out of the house.
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(Greek: a judge; right, order, law, manner; justice)
(Greek: law, order, arrangement, systematized knowledge of [something]; usage)
(Latin: order, in order; in a row, regular series, class, rank)
(Greek: arrangement, order, put in order, orientation; the movements or directed responses of motile organisms to stimuli, as indicated by the combining roots)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(Greek: disorder, without order)
(Latin: to look, to observe in order to make a prediction; to see omens; from auspex [genitive form auspicis] avi-, stem of avis, "bird" plus -spex, "observer", from specere)
(Greek: B, β; second letter of the Greek alphabet and the second object in any order of arrangement or classification)
(Greek: kosmos to cosmos; "world, universe"; from its "perfect order and arrangement"; to order, to arrange, to adorn; well-ordered, regular, arranged; skilled in adornment, which came into English as cosmetic.)
(getting a "fire in the head" in order to get the flame of creativity in motion)
(satellite tracking pygmy elephants in order to learn more about these little pachyderms)
(secretly getting access to files on a computer or network in order to get information, to steal private information in order to illegally transfer money, or to cause damage, etc.)
(Greek: said to be a stem for "all, every, whole", or "complete"; that is, a field of study in biology that refers to the whole set of omics including their -omics and -ome subfields in order to understand life as a holistic existence and organic beings as a whole)
(Latin: to make ready, to get ready, to put in order; to furnish, to prepare)
(Greek via Latin: bone between two joints of a finger or toe; line of battle; from phalanx, heavy infantry in close order [from Greek antiquity])
(seeing is believing; even if some things have to be believed in order to be seen)
(Latin numbers as cardinals, "quantities"; and as ordinals, "showing order" or "designating a place in an ordered sequence")
(Latin: from Old French seculer; from Late Latin sæcularis, worldly, living in the world, not belonging to a religious order; from saecularis, pertaining to a generation or age; from saeculum, saeclum, period of a man's life, generation; period of a hundred years)
(Latin: a speaking, talking, delivering religious messages; literally, "that which is put together in a certain order")
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“order”
Religious organizations which depend directly on the charity of the people for their livelihood: In principle, mendicant orders do not own property, neither individually nor collectively, because they have taken a vow of poverty; so all of their time and energy can be concentrated on religious work.
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In computer programming, a method of defining a matrix by naming the elements one column at a time, as opposed to row order: The computer technician installed a new column order to facilitate the creation of textual content.
A "matrix" in this context is an array of symbols arranged in rows and columns.
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English Words in Action, Group C
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dominance hierarchy, dominance order
The physical domination of some members of a group by other members, in relatively orderly and long-lasting patterns.
Except for the highest-ranking and lowest-ranking individuals, a given member will dominate one or more of its companions and be dominated in turn by one or more of the others.
The hierarchy is initiated and sustained by hostile behavior, albeit sometimes of a subtle and indirect nature.
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Ant and Related Entomology Terms
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Put your house in order (2 Kings 20:1)
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Bible Quotations used in modern English
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