Ordered vs Recommend - What's the difference?
ordered | recommend |
As verbs the difference between ordered and recommend is that ordered is ( order) while recommend is to bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice. As an adjective ordered is in order, not messy, tidy.
ordered English
Adjective
( en adjective)
In order, not messy, tidy.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=June 4
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=England 2 - 2 Switzerland
, work=BBC
citation
, page=
, passage=Milner and Theo Walcott failed to justify their selection ahead of Aston Villa's Young as they struggled ineffectually in the first half, leaving striker Bent isolated and starved of supply as Switzerland looked the more composed and ordered team.}}
Verb
(head)
(order)
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recommend English
Verb
( en verb)
To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
- The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
To advise, propose, counsel favorably
- The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
(archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
- ''A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See
Synonyms
* See also
Antonyms
* discourage
* disapprove
* oppose
Derived terms
* recommendable
* recommendatory
* recommended
* recommender
Related terms
* recommendation
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