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Ordering

noun

Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements. Synonyms: order, ordination.

The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement. Synonym: order.

Order

verb

(past & past part. ordered; pres. part. ordering)

Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority. Synonyms: enjoin, say, tell. "She ordered him to do the shopping" , "The mother told the child to get dressed"

Make a request for something. "Order a work stoppage"

Issue commands or orders for. Synonyms: dictate, prescribe.

Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations. Synonyms: govern, regularise, regularize, regulate. "This town likes to regulate"

Bring order to or into.

Place in a certain order.

Appoint to a clerical posts. Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, ordinate.

Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events. Synonyms: arrange, put, set up. "Set up one's life" , "I put these memories with those of bygone times"

Assign a rank or rating to. Synonyms: grade, place, range, rank, rate. "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

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"Ordering" Quotes from Famous Books

... undertaken in feebleminded fashion; many times she stole things worthless to herself. Evidences of her pathological mentality were that she would give orders for groceries, would buy children's clothes, or send for a physician under an assumed name. She might not go back for the groceries, but after ordering them would say she would return with the carriage. The characteristic fact throughout her career was that she wished to appear to be some one wealthier, more influential than she was. Delbruck classifies her as high-grade ...

— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy

... families, maintaining the dignity of Government House, at least as far as Southampton, and unapproachable by common mortals. Army men from West India stations, who appeared to spend their mornings in ordering the wine for dinner, and their evenings in abusing it when they had drunk it. West India planters, who thought it was rather hard that the Anti-slavery Society, after ruining them and their plantations, should moreover insist on their believing themselves to be great gainers by the change. We were ...

— Anahuac • Edward Burnett Tylor

... represented that they had been compelled to act against their will, and Napoleon, satisfied that there would be no more troubles, pardoned them on condition of their at once issuing a proclamation condemning the rioters, and ordering all to return to their ordinary avocations, and to hand over to the authorities any who ...

— At Aboukir and Acre - A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt • George Alfred Henty

... Gerent he had not seemed to remember that old loss at all. Gerent had done so, saying that I should be back there, but even that did not stir me now. I was of the court, and here I had my place, and all my life was knit with the ways of the atheling guard and the ordering of the house-carles under Owen. If I were to turn from all this to become a forest thane ...

— A Prince of Cornwall - A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler

... the superfluous command for them to halt, and ordering them to carry the wounded men back to the cars. For a moment it seemed doubtful whether they would again advance or would put themselves into some kind of defence formation and hold the ...

— The Shepherd of the North • Richard Aumerle Maher

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