Order vs Bomb - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
(uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
(countable) A command.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=30 (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
* {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.}}
(countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles; as, the Jesuit Order.
(countable) An association of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
any group of people with common interests.
(countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
(countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
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, title= 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 distinct character, kind, or sort.
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An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
(architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
(cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
(electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
* a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.
(chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
(mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
(graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
(order theory) A partially ordered set.
(order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered set.
(mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
To set in some sort of order.
To arrange, set in proper order.
To issue a command to.
To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
* Book of Common Prayer
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
* 2008 , Sidney Gelb, Foreign Service Agent ,
# (label) The atomic bomb.
# (label) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
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, volume=190, issue=20, page=13, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (label) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
* 1997 , Eric L. Flom, Chaplin in the Sound Era: An Analysis of the Seven Talkies ,
* 2010 , (Tony Curtis), (Peter Golenbock), American Prince: My Autobiography ,
* 2011 , Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture ,
# A car in poor condition.
#* 2005 August 6, Warm affection for a rust-bucket past , [http://www.smh.com.au/news/words/warm-affection-for-a-rustbucket-past/2005/08/04/1123125839592.html]
#* 2010 , Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice ,
#* 2011 , Amarinda Jones, Seducing Celestine ,
A large amount of money, a fortune.
* 2009 , Matthew Vierling, The Blizzard ,
* 2010 , Liz Young, Fair Game ,
* 2011 , Michael R. Häack, Passport: A Novel of International Intrigue ,
* 2011 , Bibe, A Victim ,
(label) Something highly effective or attractive.
# A success; the bomb.
# A very attractive woman; a bombshell.
# An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
# A long forward pass.
# (label) A jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, for maximum splashing.
(label) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
* 2008 , François Cardarelli, Materials Handbook: A Concise Desktop Reference ,
(label) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(intransitive) To attack using one or more s; to bombard.
* 2000 , Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research , Volumes 32-33,
* 2005 , Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present ,
* 2007 , David Parker, Hertfordshire Children in War and Peace, 1914-1939 ,
(slang) To fail dismally.
* 1992 June, Lynn Norment, Arsenio Hall: Claiming the Late-night Crown'', in '' ,
* 2000 , Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview'', in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, ''Comic Book Artist Collection ,
* 2008 , Erik Sternberger, The Long and Winding Road ,
(informal) To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
(obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
(slang) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
* 2009 , Scape Martinez, GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti (page 124)
(informal, AU) to add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
(slang) Great, awesome.
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As nouns the difference between order and bomb
is that order is (uncountable) arrangement, disposition, sequence while bomb is an explosive device used or intended as a weapon.As verbs the difference between order and bomb
is that order is to set in some sort of order while bomb is (intransitive) to attack using one or more s; to bombard.As an adjective bomb is
(slang) great, awesome.order
English
(wikipedia order)Alternative forms
* ordre (obsolete)Noun
- The house is in order'''; the machinery is out of '''order .
- to preserve order in a community or an assembly
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citation
Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
- the higher or lower orders of society
- talent of a high order
- They are in equal order to their several ends.
- Various orders various ensigns bear.
- which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.
- to take orders''', or to take '''holy orders , that is, to enter some grade of the ministry
Quotations
* 1611 — 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us... * Donald Knuth. Volume 3: ''Sorting and Searching, Addison-Wesley, 1973, chapter 8: *: Since only two of our tape drives were in working order', I was '''ordered''' to '''order''' more tape units in short '''order''', in '''order''' to '''order''' the data several ' orders of magnitude faster.Antonyms
* chaosDerived terms
* alphabetical order * antisocial behaviour order * Anton Piller order * apple-pie order * back-to-work order * bottom order * court order * doctor's orders * Doric order * executive order * first order stream * fraternal birth order * gagging order * Groceries Order * in order / in order to * in short order * infra-order * interim order * last orders * law-and-order * Mary Bell order * mendicant order * middle order * moral order * New World Order * on the order of * order in council * Order of Australia * order of magnitude * order of operations * order of precedence * order of the day * order stream * out of order * partial order * pecking order * place an order * put one's house in order * purchase order * religious order * restraining order * second order stream * short order * standing order * stop-loss order * superorder * tall order * third order stream * total order * well-order * working order * z-orderSee also
*Verb
(en verb)- to order troops to advance
- to order groceries
- persons presented to be ordered deacons
Synonyms
* (arrange into some sort of order) sort, rankDerived terms
* just what the doctor ordered * made-to-order * mail-order * order of magnitude * order out * well-orderStatistics
*bomb
English
(wikipedia bomb)Noun
(en noun)page 629,
- The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb .
Martin Lukacs
Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy, passage=If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb , this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.}}
page 277,
- Projection problems plagued Countess? London premiere on January 5, 1967, Jerry Epstein recalled, and it was perhaps an omen, for reaction by critics afterward was swift and immediate: The film was a bomb .
unnumbered page,
- The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa , in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon.
page 11,
- The movie was a bomb , but it put the band before an even larger audience.
- Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.
page 19,
- We?ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb .
page 49,
- After two weeks of driving it she knew the car was a bomb and she did not need anyone saying it to her. The only one allowed to pick on her car was her. Piece of crap car
page 133,
- When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must?ve cost a bomb .”
page 136,
- ‘You?ve already spent a bomb !’
- ‘Not on'' it, Sal — ''under it. Presents!’ As we eventually staggered up to bed, Sally said to me, ‘I hope to God he?s not been spending a bomb on presents, too.’
page 47,
- The kids cost a bomb to feed, they eat all the time.
page 38,
- He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.
page 276,
- The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb .
- A pillar of irona great bomb in the chamber beneath.
Usage notes
* The diametrical slang meanings are somewhat distinguishable by the article. For “a success”, the phrase is generally the bomb''. Otherwise ''bomb can mean “a failure”.Synonyms
* (attractive woman) bombshell * (car) rustbucket * (large amount of money) fortune, packet, pretty pennyDerived terms
* A-bomb * atom bomb * atomic bomb * barrel bomb * bomb squad * car bomb * dirty bomb * E-bomb * F-bomb * gay bomb * H-bomb * hydrogen bomb * neutron bomb * paper bomb * petrol bomb * pipe bomb * sex bombSee also
* lemonVerb
(en verb)page 65,
- 15 May: US jets bombed' air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally ' bombing civilian targets. (AP)
page 421,
- Italy had bombed' cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had ' bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.
page 59,
- Essendon was bombed in the early hours of 3 September 1916; a few houses and part of the church were destroyed, and two sisters killed.
page 74,
- So Hall quit the job, turned in the company car and went to Chicago, where as a stand-up comic he bombed' several times before he was discovered by Nancy Wilson, who took him on the road — where he ' bombed again before a room of Republicans—and then to Los Angeles.
page 12,
- Carmen: Then it bombed' and it ' bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I?m trying everything I can but it?s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.
page 62,
- She was the reason why he bombed the interview. He just couldn?t seem to get her out of his mind.
- (Ben Jonson)
- It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.
Derived terms
* bomber * bomb outAdjective
(en adjective)- Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb !