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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Series \Se"ries\, n. 1. (Bot.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the {cohort} of some writers, and to the {order} of many modern systematists. 2. (Elec.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; -- opposed to {parallel}. The parts so arranged are said to be {in series}. 3. (Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Order \Or"der\, n. [OE. ordre, F. ordre, fr L. ordo, ordinis Cf {Ordain}, {Ordinal}.] 1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: a Of material things like the books in a library. b Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. c Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like The side chambers were . . . thirty in order --Ezek. xli. 6. Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable. --Milton. Good order is the foundation of all good things --Burke. 2. Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as the house is in order the machinery is out of order --Locke. 3. The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion. --Dantiel. And pregnant with his grander thought, Brought the old order into doubt. --Emerson. 4. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as to preserve order in a community or an assembly. 5. That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as the rules and orders of the senate. The church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish. --Hooker. 6. A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction. Upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in England. --Clarendon. 7. Hence: A commission to purchase, sell or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like as orders for blankets are large In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them --Lamb. 8. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a group or division of men in the same social or other position; also a distinct character, kind or sort; as the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order They are in equal order to their several ends --Jer. Taylor. Various orders various ensigns bear. --Granville. Which to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime. --Hawthorne. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Order \Or"der\, v. i. To give orders to issue commands. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Order \Or"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ordered}; p pr & vb n. {Ordering}.] [From {Order}, n.] 1. To put in order to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end Hence to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule To him that ordereth his conversation aright. --Ps. 1. 23. Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. --Milton. 2. To give an order to to command; as to order troops to advance. 3. To give an order for to secure by an order as to order a carriage; to order groceries. 4. (Eccl.) To admit to holy orders to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. These ordered folk be especially titled to God. --Chaucer. Persons presented to be ordered deacons. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. {Order arms} (Mil.), the command at which a rifle is brought to a position with its but resting on the ground; also the position taken at such a command. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Note: In modern law, proposal and acceptance are the constituent elements into which all contracts are resolved. {Acceptance of a bill of exchange}, {check}, {draft}, or {order}, is an engagement to pay it according to the terms. This engagement is usually made by writing the word ``accepted'' across the face of the bill. {Acceptance of goods}, under the statute of frauds, is an intelligent acceptance by a party knowing the nature of the transaction. 6. Meaning; acceptation. [Obs.] {Acceptance of persons}, partiality, favoritism. See under {Accept}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: order n 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" [syn: {order of magnitude}] 3: established customary state esp. of society; "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" [ant: {disorder}] 4: logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements of a group "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" [syn: {ordering}] 5: a condition of regular or proper arrangement: "he put his desk in order"; "put the chessmen in order" [syn: {orderliness}] [ant: {disorderliness}, {disorderliness}] 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" [syn: {decree}, {edict}, {fiat}, {rescript}] 7: a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment; "IBM received an order for a hundred computers" [syn: {purchase order}] 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" [syn: {club}, {society}, {guild}, {gild}, {lodge}] 9: a body of rules followed by an assembly [syn: {rules of order}, {parliamentary law}, {parliamentary procedure}] 10: (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families 11: putting in order "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" [syn: {ordering}] v 1: tell somebody to do something "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping" [syn: {tell}, {enjoin}, {say}] 2: make a request for something "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage" 3: issue commands or orders for [syn: {prescribe}, {dictate}] 4: impose regulations on [syn: {regulate}, {regularize}, {govern}] [ant: {deregulate}] 5: bring order to or into "Order these files" [ant: {disorder}] 6: place in a certain order "order these files" 7: of clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" [syn: {ordain}, {consecrate}] 8: arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule;" "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" [syn: {arrange}, {set up}, {put}] 9: assign a rank or rating to "how would you rank these students?" [syn: {rate}, {rank}, {range}, {grade}, {place}]
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