Order vs Series - 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.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, 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
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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.
* Book of Common Prayer
A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (US, Canada) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals
(British) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
(mathematics) The sum of the terms of a sequence.
(cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.
(zoology) An unranked taxon.
(senseid) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
(electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit.
Order is a related term of series.
As a noun order
is , command.As a verb series is
.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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citation
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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
*series
English
Noun
(series)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
- Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.
Usage notes
* In the United Kingdom, television and radio programs (spelt in Commonwealth English as "programmes") are divided into series, which are usually a year long. In North America, the word "series" is a synonym of "program", and programs are divided into year-long seasons. * (mathematics) Beginning students often confuse (term) with (sequence).Synonyms
* (number of things that follow on one after the other) chain, line, sequence, stream, succession * (television or radio program) show, programDerived terms
* (media, TV) TV series * (mathematics) arithmetic series, basic hypergeometric series, confluent hypergeometric series, formal power series, geometric series, hypergeometric series, power seriesAdjective
(-)- You have to connect the lights in series for them to work properly .