Order vs Quality - What's the difference?

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Order is a related term of quality.

As nouns the difference between order and quality

is that order is , command while quality is (uncountable) level of excellence.

As an adjective quality is

being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

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.

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, 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

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

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Anagrams

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quality

English

Noun

(uncountable) Level of excellence

This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality .

Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.

(countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.

One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily.

While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.

Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system.

(archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)

A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality .

Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.

(uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.

(thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.

(emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.

To identify quality try asking, "what does it feel like?".

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to "quality": high, good, excellent, exceptional, great, outstanding, satisfactory, acceptable, sufficient, adequate, poor, low, bad, inferior, dubious, environmental, visual, optical, industrial, total, artistic, educational, physical, musical, chemical, spiritual, intellectual, architectural, mechanical.

Synonyms

* See also

Coordinate terms

* (a property that differentiates) quiddity

Derived terms

(quality) * human quality * industrial quality * quality time * quality of life * the quality, the Quality * total quality management * qualitative

Adjective

(en adjective)

Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

We only sell quality products.

That was a quality game by Jim Smith.

A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.

* Harriet (a Cambridge University student), quoted in John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore, Graduate Citizens?: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education , Routledge (2003), ISBN 978-0-415-25722-0, page 114:

I mean a lot of the money that obviously goes into universities and their libraries and their facilities and their academics and stuff but I mean I haven’t had a very quality degree to be honest. I think the quality of my education has been crap . . .

* 2004 , Vance M. Thompson, MD, in J. Kevin Belville and Ronald J. Smith (editors), LASIK Techniques: Pearls and Pitfalls , SLACK Incorporated, ISBN 978-1-55642-622-3, page 187:

For one I wanted to have what I considered a very quality tracking device.

* 2008 , Carl Erskine, in Fay Vincent, We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-1-4165-5342-7, page 144:

A very quality ball club; that was the Braves.

Derived terms

* qualityness

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