Order vs Call - 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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, 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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* Granville
* Hawthorne
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 telephone conversation.
A short visit, usually for social purposes.
* Cowper
A cry or shout.
A decision or judgement.
The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
A beckoning or summoning.
* Addison
* Macaulay
(finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
(cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
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(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
(poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
(nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
Vocation; employment; calling.
A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
(lb) To use one's voice.
#(lb) To request, summon, or beckon.
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#*(John Bunyan) (1628-1688)
#*:They called for rooms, and he showed them one.
#(lb) To cry or shout.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:You must call to the nurse.
#*(Rudyard Kipling) (1865-1936), Merrow Down
#*:For far — oh, very far behind, / So far she cannot call to him, / Comes Tegumai alone to find / The daughter that was all to him!
#(lb) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
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#*(John Gay) (1685-1732)
#*:no parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear
# To contact by telephone.
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#(lb) To declare in advance.
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#To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:If thou canst awake by four o' the clock, / I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly.
To visit.
#To pay a (social) visit.
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#* (1628–1699)
#*:He ordered her to call at the house once a week.
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#To stop at a station or port.
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(lb) To name, identify or describe.
#(lb) To name or refer to.
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#*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
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, title= #(lb) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= #(lb) To predict.
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#To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
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#*(John Brougham) (1814-1880)
#*:[The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
#(lb) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
#*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
#*:This speech calls him Spaniard.
Direct or indirect use of the voice.
#(lb) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
# (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
# To match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet.
#(lb) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
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To require, .
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To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
To demand repayment of a loan.
To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
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In cricket terms the difference between order and call
is that order is the sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order while call is (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.As nouns the difference between order and call
is that order is arrangement, disposition, sequence while call is a telephone conversation.As verbs the difference between order and call
is that order is to set in some sort of order while call is To use one's voice.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
*call
English
(wikipedia call)Noun
(en noun)- I received several phone calls today.
- I received several calls today.
- I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.
- the baker's punctual call
- He heard a call from the other side of the room.
- That was a good call .
- That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
- I had to yield to the call of the wild.
- Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity.
- running into danger without any call of duty
- page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call .”
- page 56: “ I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”
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page 29
: I took general-surgery call' at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical '''call''', which was gladly given away by the older staff members: . You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical ' call .
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page 206
: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.
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- We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.
- The columns in the second rectangle show fewer hours, but part of that is due to the fact that there's a division between a work call' and a show ' call .
- There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.
Quotations
* 2007 , Latina , volume 11, page 101: *: We actually have a call tomorrow, which is a Sunday, right after my bridal shower. I have to make enchiladas for 10 people!Derived terms
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(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call' him, will get on, but I do know that if you '''call''' my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs ' called a livery.
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}