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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" Antonym: deregulate.

Bring order to or into. Antonym: disorder.

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

... gone into every late or early public-house where there was a light (they were not a few at that time, the road being then much frequented by drovers) and had got down to talk to the turnpike- keepers. I had heard him ordering drink, and chinking money, and making himself agreeable and merry everywhere; but whenever he took his seat upon the box again, his face resumed its watchful steady look, and he always said to the driver in the same business tone, "Get on, ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... in his rear, and that Cockburn's was only a feint to draw his attention from the other. So he sent Captain Servant out with his rifle company to ambush on the road by which Beckwith's troops were approaching, ordering him to attack and check the enemy. Then when Cockburn came round Blackbeard's Point and opened fire on the American camp he received so warm a welcome from Crutchfield's heavy battery that he was presently glad to escape for shelter behind the Point, and content himself ...

— Elsie's Vacation and After Events • Martha Finley

... anything, and have filed and filed away at my probation work; because when I become journeyman, and another year has passed, and I've laid by a little, then—then it might be that you could get away from the factory dirt and the ordering at home both at once, and be a real smith's wife, Silla. You've never had any one to take care of you as I've done, you know; and you don't know how good I'll be to you! For a fellow who hasn't had either father or mother, and since I was up at the police-station I haven't had ...

— One of Life's Slaves • Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie

... the century old oak that protects it; or for the blue-bird to question the haze on a midsummer horizon because, forsooth! it is a little off color with his own wings, then it will be time for man to find fault with the ordering of the seasons and the allotment of the weather in the world he is ...

— A String of Amber Beads • Martha Everts Holden

... rested on Mr. Lessing's portrait over the mantelshelf, presented by the congregation of St. John's on some occasion two years before. From the portrait he turned to the gentleman, but it was not necessary for him to speak. Mr. Lessing was saying something to the man—probably ordering the car. He glanced across at Hilda, who had made some reply to her mother and was toying with a spoon. He thought he had never seen her look more handsome and.... He could not find the word: thought of "solid," and then smiled at the thought. It did not fit in with ...

— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable

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