order
- 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"