Order vs Ball - 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.
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, 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
A solid or hollow sphere, or part thereof.
# A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
# (label) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, etc.
## A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
# A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body.
# (label) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
# The globe; the earthly sphere.
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# (label) The set of points in a metric space lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point; specifically, the homologue of the disk in a Euclidean space of any number of dimensions.
# The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point; the analogue of the disk in a Euclidean space.
# An object, generally spherical, used for playing games.
#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
#* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 2, author=Aled Williams, work=BBC Sport Wales
, title= (label) The use of a round or ellipsoidal object.
# Any simple game involving a ball.
# (label) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
# (label) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
# (label) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
# (label) A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.
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, title= A testicle.
# Nonsense.
# Courage.
A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
(label) To form or wind into a ball.
(label) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
To have sexual intercourse with.
(label) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
To be hip or cool.
(label) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.
As nouns the difference between order and ball
is that order is , command while ball is .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
citation, passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
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
*ball
English
(wikipedia ball)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Move round the dark terrestrial ball .
- Thus, if eternal Justice rules the ball , / Thus shall your wives, and thus your children fall;
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Swansea 2-0 Stoke, passage=Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.}}
Chelsea 1-0 Bolton, passage=After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes. }}
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Synonyms
* sphere * globe * (testicle) See * (courage) chutzpah, guts, nerveDerived terms
(solid or hollow sphere) {{der3, ball and chain , ball and socket , ball-barrow , ball bearing/ball-bearing , ball boy/ballboyball-boy , ball-cartridge , ballclay , ballcock , ball-flower , ball-game , ball-girl , ball lightning , ball machine , ball mill , ball of fire , ball of the foot , ball of the thumb , ballpark , ball-player , ballpoint , ball-proof , ball race , ball up , bandy-ball , baseball , basketball , beachball/beach ball , best-ball , billiard ball , blackball , blowball , blueball , brandy-ball , broomball , buckyball , butterball , button-ball , cannonball , coalball , cornball , cricket ball , croquet ball , crystal ball , cue ball , dust-ball , eight ball/eight-ball , eyeball , fastball , fire-ball , fishball , football , four ball , freeball , furball , fuzz-ball , game ball , get the ball rolling , goalball , golf ball , goofball , greaseball , hair-ball , half-ball , hand-ball , hardball , heel-ball , highball , holding the ball , jump ball , keep the ball rolling , kickball , korfball , matzo ball , meatball , medicine ball , , mothball , netball , no ball , object ball , oddball , on the ball , paintball , patball , pinball , ping-pong ball , pithball , play ball , puffball , punchball , push-ball , racquetball , rollerball , root-ball , rugby ball , scuzzball , silver ball , skittle-ball , sleazeball , slimeball , smoke-ball , snooker ball , snowball , soccer ball , softball , speedball , spot the ball , stink ball , stoolball , table-tennis ball , tea ball , tennis ball , tchoukball , the ball is in your court , through ball , time-ball , too many balls in the air , trackball, trackerball , trap-ball , volleyball , washball}} (testicle) {{der3, ball-breaker , ball-breaking , ball-buster , ball-busting , balls-aching , balls up (verb) , balls-up (noun) , ballsy , have someone by the balls , screwball}}Verb
(en verb)- to ball cotton
- The horse balls'''; the snow '''balls .
Synonyms
* (vulgar) bonk, fuck, lay, screw, shag (British)Interjection
(en interjection)- 2007: A good tackle (and some bad ones) will bring a cry of "Ball!" from the crowd – a plea for a holding the ball free kick. — AFL Sydney Swans Rules Zone [http://www.afl.com.au/FanZone/Rules/tabid/7892/Default.aspx]