首页英语词典orderorder英英释意

order

英['ɔːdə] 美['ɔrdɚ]
  • n. 命令;顺序;规则;[贸易] 定单
  • vt. 命令;整理;定购
  • vi. 命令;定货

英英释意


1. (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"
2. 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"
3. established customary state (especially of society);
"order ruled in the streets"
"law and order"
4. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements;
"we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
5. a condition of regular or proper arrangement;
"he put his desk in order"
"the machine is now in working order"
6. 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"
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"
8. 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"
9. a body of rules followed by an assembly
10. (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy;
"theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate order"
11. a group of person living under a religious rule;
"the order of Saint Benedict"
12. (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
13. a request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant or bar etc.);
"I gave the waiter my order"
14. (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
15. putting in order;
"there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"