Order vs Scale - 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.
* Jeremy Taylor
* 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
(obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
Size; scope.
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The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
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A means of assigning a magnitude.
(music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
A mathematical base for a numeral system.
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
* Milton
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To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
To climb to the top of.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
(computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
* Shakespeare
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
* Milton
A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
A pine nut of a pinecone.
The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
Limescale
A scale insect
The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
To remove the scales of.
To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
* T. Burnet
To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
* Francis Bacon
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
A device to measure mass or weight.
Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
As nouns the difference between order and scale
is that order is , command while scale is (obsolete) a ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending or scale can be part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile or scale can be a device to measure mass or weight.As a verb scale is
to change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product or scale can be to remove the scales of.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
*scale
English
(wikipedia scale) {, style="float: right; clear:right;" , , }Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; see scan, ascend, descend, etc.Noun
(en noun)- Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
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- The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale .
- There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
- This map uses a scale of 1:10.
- Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in (and usually connected to an appropriate figure by an arrow) will allow derivation of meaningful measurements.
- The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale .
- the decimal scale'''; the binary '''scale
- There is a certain scale of duties which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.
citation, page= , passage=City's players and supporters travelled from one end of the emotional scale to the other in those vital seconds, providing a truly remarkable piece of football theatre and the most dramatic conclusion to a season in Premier League history.}}
Derived terms
* Celsius scale * Fahrenheit scale * Kelvin scale * major scale * microscale * milliscale * minor scale * modal scale * scale invariance * scale model * Richter scale * to scale * wage scale * widescaleHyponyms
* (music) tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, leading note, octave interval * (geography) cartographic ratio, resolution, grain, support, focus, extent, range, sizeSee also
* degree * ordinal variableVerb
(scal)- We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
- Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
- At last I came to the great barrier-cliffs; and after three days of mad effort--of maniacal effort--I scaled' them. I built crude ladders; I wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds with my long knife; but at last I ' scaled them. Near the summit I came upon a huge cavern.
- That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
- Scaling his present bearing with his past.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) scale, from (etyl) escale, from (etyl) or another (etyl) source skala /, (etyl) scaglia.Noun
(en noun)- Fish that, with their fins and shining scales , / Glide under the green wave.
Derived terms
* antiscalantVerb
(scal)- Please scale that fish for dinner.
- The dry weather is making my skin scale .
- to scale the inside of a boiler
- if all the mountains were scaled , and the earth made even
- Some sandstone scales by exposure.
- Those that cast their shell are the lobster and crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells never; so it is likely that they scale off.
- (Totten)
Etymology 3
From (etyl) . Cognate with , as in Etymology 2.Noun
(en noun)- After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale .