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# order

«order» in Mova's school dictionary: **the way things follow one after another: in alphabetical…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (order, orders); verb (order, orders, ordered, ordering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Order is the way things follow one after another: in alphabetical order, in order of size. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#m1)

2) To order is to ask to buy something, or the thing you ask for: order a pizza, your order is ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#m2)

3) To order also means to put things in order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#m3)

4) An order is a command, and to order someone is to tell them what to do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#m4)

5) In order means tidy, or working well; out of order means broken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: putting numbers in order from least to greatest; ordering food or things to buy; «order of operations». In everyday life: ordering at a café, ordering online, lining up in order. In science: ordering steps of an experiment, ordering animals by size. In stories: a king's orders; «out of order» on a broken machine.

### examples

- Put the numbers in order from least to greatest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#x1)
- She ordered 3 pizzas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#x2)
- Each order has 6 boxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#x3)
- The orders came in this order: Tom, Sam, Ann. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#x4)
- Line up in alphabetical order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#x5)
- The lift is out of order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#x6)
- The captain gave the order to sail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#x7)
- Your order will arrive in three days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#x8)
- Write the steps of the experiment in the right order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#x9)
- Servants came, and he ordered supper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/#x10)

### note

Ordering things to buy: cost = price × number. «In order» asks you to sort, not to calculate. Trap: «order of operations» means do × and ÷ before + and −. «In order to» means «so that»: «I ran in order to catch the bus». Least to greatest = ascending; greatest to least = descending.

### In the corpora

- [Breakfast-show presenters are paid professionals working from a running order and an earpiece; the friendly chat is planned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/9/)
- [Films are usually filmed out of order to save time and money, for example shooting every scene in one place together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/6/)
- [A missing piece rarely ruins a model: builders swap in another brick, and single pieces can be ordered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/11/)
- [In tests in Hawaii, dolphins understood that word order in hand-signal sentences changes the meaning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs/14/)
- [The Frog-Footman repeats it "only changing the order of the words a little": "From the Queen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «order» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/order/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.