order in WordNet English dictionary

1. arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
   "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
   arrange  set up  put  order 
   
2. appoint to a clerical posts
   "he was ordained in the Church"
   ordain  consecrate  ordinate  order 
   
3. issue commands or orders for
   order  prescribe  dictate 
   
4. give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
   "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"
   order  tell  enjoin  say 
   
5. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
   "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
   regulate  regularize  regularise  order  govern 
   
6. assign a rank or rating to
   "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
   rate  rank  range  order  grade  place 
   
7. bring order to or into
   "Order these files"
   order 
   
8. place in a certain order
   "order the photos chronologically"
   order 
   
9. make a request for something
   "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"
   order 
   

1. a formal association of people with similar interests
   "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
   club  social club  society  guild  gild  lodge  order 
   
2. a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
   "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
   decree  edict  fiat  order  rescript 
   
3. a group of person living under a religious rule
   "the order of Saint Benedict"
   order  monastic order 
   
4. the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
   "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"
   order  ordering 
   
5. (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
   order 
   
6. a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
   "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude"
   order  order of magnitude 
   
7. a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
   "IBM received an order for a hundred computers"
   order  purchase order 
   
8. a body of rules followed by an assembly
   order  rules of order  parliamentary law  parliamentary procedure 
   
9. (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
   "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London"
   order 
   
10. a request for something to be made, supplied, or served
    "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"
    order 
    
11. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
    "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
    ordering  order  ordination 
    
12. (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
    order 
    
13. established customary state (especially of society)
    "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"
    order 
    
14. a condition of regular or proper arrangement
    "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order"
    orderliness  order