Order vs Charge - 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.
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(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.
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The scope of someone's responsibility.
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Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
A load or burden; cargo.
The amount of money levied for a service.
An instruction.
(military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
An accusation.
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An electric charge.
(basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
(heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
A forceful forward movement.
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A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
A sort of plaster or ointment.
Weight; import; value.
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A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds. Also charre.
To place a burden upon; to assign a duty or responsibility to.
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* Bible, Joshua xxii. 5
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# To formally accuse of a crime.
# (ambitransitive) To require payment (for goods, services, etc.) of.
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, title= # To assign (a debit) to an account.
# To pay on account, (as) by using a credit card.
# To impute or ascribe.
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# To call to account; to challenge.
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# To ornament with or cause to bear.
# (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
# (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
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# To cause to take on an electric charge.
# To add energy to (a battery).
# To add energy to a battery within.
# (intransitive, of a, battery) To gain energy.
# (intransitive, of a, device containing a battery) To have a battery within gain energy.
To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
# (military, transitive, and, intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
# (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
# (cricket, of a, batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
To squat on the belly and be still; a command given by a hunter to a dog.
As nouns the difference between order and charge
is that order is arrangement, disposition, sequence while charge is the scope of someone's responsibility.As verbs the difference between order and charge
is that order is to set in some sort of order while charge is to place a burden upon; to assign a duty or responsibility to.As a proper noun Chargé is
a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in France.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
*charge
English
(wikipedia charge)Noun
(en noun)- The child was in the nanny's charge .
- He had the key of a closet in which the moneys of this fund were kept, but the outer key of the vault, of which the closet formed part, was in the charge of another person.
- The child was a charge of the nanny.
- The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
- There will be a charge of five dollars.
- I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
- Pickett did not die leading his famous charge .
- we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge ;
- That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
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- to bring a weapon to the charge
- many suchlike as's of great charge
Derived terms
* access charge * banzai charge * carrying charge * chargeback * chargecard * charge conjugation * charge density * charge hand * charge nurse * charge of quarters * charge-off * charge plate * charge sheet * color charge/colour charge * cover charge * deferred charge * depth charge * electric charge * finance charge * fixed charge * floating charge * free of charge * get a charge out of * in charge * late charge * negative charge * nonrecurring charge * partial charge * positive charge * press charges * redemption charge * reverse-charge * reverse the charge * sales charge * service charge * shaped charge * space charge * specific charge * take charge * trickle charge * user chargeVerb
(charg)- the charging of children's memories with rules
- Moses charged you to love the Lord your God.
- Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
- I'm charging you with grand theft auto.
- to charge high for goods
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- Will I get charged for this service?
- Let's charge this to marketing.
- Can I charge my Amazon purchase to Paypal?
- Can I charge this purchase?
- No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.
- to charge me to an answer
- to charge an architectural member with a moulding
- He charges three roses.
- He charges his shield with three roses or.
- Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
- their battering cannon charged to the mouths
- Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
- He charged the battery overnight.
- Don't forget to charge the drill.
- The battery is still charging : I can't use it yet.
- His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.
- The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.