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order | drive |

As a noun order

is , command.

As a verb drive is

.

order

English

(wikipedia order)

Alternative forms

* ordre (obsolete)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
  • (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
  • The house is in order'''; the machinery is out of '''order .
  • Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
  • to preserve order in a community or an assembly
  • (countable) A command.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=30 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.}}
  • (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) citation
  • , 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
  • , title= 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.}}
  • 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.
  • the higher or lower orders of society
    talent of a high order
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • They are in equal order to their several ends.
  • * Granville
  • Various orders various ensigns bear.
  • * Hawthorne
  • which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.
  • An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
  • to take orders''', or to take '''holy orders , that is, to enter some grade of the ministry
  • (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.
  • 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

    * chaos

    Derived 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-order

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set in some sort of order.
  • To arrange, set in proper order.
  • To issue a command to.
  • to order troops to advance
  • To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
  • to order groceries
  • To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
  • * Book of Common Prayer
  • persons presented to be ordered deacons
    Synonyms
    * (arrange into some sort of order) sort, rank

    Derived terms

    * just what the doctor ordered * made-to-order * mail-order * order of magnitude * order out * well-order

    Statistics

    *

    drive

    English

    Verb

  • To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
  • to drive sheep out of a field
  • * Jowett (Thucyd.)
  • A storm came on and drove them into Pylos.
  • (intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • To cause animals to flee out of.
  • To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
  • To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
  • (ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
  • To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
  • To compel (to do something).
  • To cause to become.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • (cricket) To hit the ball with a .
  • To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  • To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  • To move forcefully.
  • * Dryden
  • Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
  • * Prescott
  • under cover of the night and a driving tempest
  • * Tennyson
  • Time driveth onward fast, / And in a little while our lips are dumb.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
  • , title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal , passage=The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny. }}
  • To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
  • * Tennyson
  • enough to drive one mad
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his.
  • To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
  • * Collier
  • The trade of life can not be driven without partners.
    (Francis Bacon)
  • To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
  • * Dryden
  • to drive the country, force the swains away
  • (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
  • (Tomlinson)
  • (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
  • Synonyms

    * herd * (cause animals to flee out of) * (move something by hitting it with great force) force, push * move, operate * * impel, incentivise/incentivize, motivate, push, urge * (compel) compel, force, oblige, push, require * (cause to become) make, send * (travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle) * take

    Derived terms

    * bedrive * drink and drive * driveable * drive a coach and horses through * drive a hard bargain * drive at * drive-boat * drive-bolt * drive-by * drivee * drive home * drive-in * drive Irish tandem * drive-line * drive off * drive-off * drive-on * * drive out * drive-pipe * driver * drive-screw * drive-shaft * drive-through, drivethrough * drive time * drive to distraction * drive to drink * drive-train * drive-wheel * drive-yourself * driving * fordrive * let drive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.
  • Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
  • * (Matthew Arnold)
  • The Murdstonian drive in business.
  • An act of driving animals forward, to be captured, hunted etc.
  • * 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 79:
  • Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin.
  • (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
  • A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.
  • A trip made in a motor vehicle.
  • A driveway.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive , for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
  • A type of public roadway.
  • (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
  • (psychology) Desire or interest.
  • (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
  • (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
  • (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
  • (baseball) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
  • (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
  • (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
  • , title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal , passage=And after Rodallega missed two early opportunities, the first a header, the second a low drive easily held by Lukasz Fabianski, it was N'Zogbia who created the opening goal. }}
  • A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive
  • (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
  • A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
  • Usage notes

    * In connection with a mass-storage device, originally the word "drive" referred solely to the reading and writing mechanism. For the storage device itself, the word "disk" was used instead. This remains a valid distinction for components such as floppy drives or CD drives, in which the drive and the disk are separate and independent items. For other devices, such as hard disks and flash drives, the reading, writing and storage components are combined into an integrated whole, and can not be separated without destroying the device. In these cases, the words "disk" and "drive" are used interchangeably.

    Synonyms

    * (self-motivation) ambition, enthusiasm, get-up-and-go, motivation, self-motivation, verve * (sustained advance in the face of the enemy) attack, push * (motor that does not take fuel) engine, mechanism, motor * (trip made in a motor vehicle) ride, spin, trip * (driveway) approach, driveway * (public roadway) avenue, boulevard, road, street * desire, impetus, impulse, urge * disk drive * (golf term) * (baseball term) line drive * (cricket term)

    Antonyms

    * (self-motivation) inertia, lack of motivation, laziness, phlegm, sloth

    Derived terms

    * bridge drive * disk drive * blood drive * food drive * drive-whist * flash drive * floppy drive * four-wheel drive * hard drive * hyperdrive * toy drive * jump drive * left-hand drive * overdrive * right-hand drive * sex drive * warp drive * whist drive

    Derived terms

    * drift * drive out * driver * driverside * driven * driven to distraction * drive Irish tandem * drunk driving * jump drive * piledriver * screwdriver -->