Order vs Body - What's the difference?
order | body | Synonyms |
(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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, 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
Physical frame.
# The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
# The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
# A corpse.
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#* 1876 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) , Chapter 28:
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# The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
# The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
# (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
# The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
# A bodysuit.
# (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
Coherent group.
# A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
# An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
# A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
Material entity.
# Any physical object or material thing.
# (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
#* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
# (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
# An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
#* 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine , page 179:
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(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
To give body or shape to something.
To construct the bodywork of a car.
To embody.
* 1955 , Philip Larkin, Toads
Order is a synonym of body.
As nouns the difference between order and body
is that order is , command while body is a bodysuit , chiefly worn by women and children.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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- 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
*body
English
(wikipedia body)Noun
{{picdic, image= Human body features-nb.svg , detail1= 1= 2= 3= 4= 5= 6= 7= 8= 9= 10-14= 15-19= }}- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body , it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it [...]
- Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body
's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
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- What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
- The boxer took a blow to the body .
- The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
- Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
- In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
- The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
- We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body , pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
- We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
- The red wine, sadly, lacked body .
- In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour [...]
World's largest extrusive '''bodyof sand?", ''Geology , volume 40, issue 5
- Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
- The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
- a nonpareil face on an agate body
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* acetone body * administrative body * after body * amygaloid body * anococcygeal body * asteroid body * astral body * Barr body * black body * bodice * bodily * body armour * body bag * body blow * body-build * bodybuilder * bodybuilding * body cavity * body-centered * body check * body clock * body coat * body conscious * body contact * body count * body-hugging * body image * body louse * body mass index * body odour * body politic * bodyshell * body shop * body snatcher * body-surf * bodysuit * bodywork * car body * dead body * foreign body * heavenly body * mind-body * out-of-body * over my dead body * real body * subtle body * student body * zebra body (body)See also
* corporal * corporealVerb
- I don't say, one bodies the other / One's spiritual truth; / But I do say it's hard to lose either, / When you have both.
References
*Compact Oxford English Dictionary*
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