Respect vs Order - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high
(uncountable) good opinion, honor, or admiration
(uncountable, always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.
(countable) a particular aspect of something
to have respect for.
to have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right
to abide by an agreement.
To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
* Shakespeare
* Francis Bacon
To relate to; to be concerned with.
* J. Lee
(obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) To look toward; to face.
* Sir Thomas Browne
respect protect the right of anyone to believe whatever they wish, to act within the law in accordance with their beliefs, and not to be discriminated against on account of their beliefs.
:* Changes in the use of the word respect seems to have shifted our attitudes towards the quite different notion that we must behave respectfully politely towards their beliefs, and not criticize them.
:* This is a restriction on freedom of speech, and is inherently hypocritical—anyone with any view on religion must necessarily believe that those who believe differently are deluded, although their rights must be respected observed.
The distinction between the two meanings can be shown by paraphrasing Voltaire: "I totally disrespect what you say, but absolutely respect your right to say it. "
(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
As nouns the difference between respect and order
is that respect is (uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high while order is , command.As a verb respect
is to have respect for.As an interjection respect
is (jamaica) hello, hi.respect
English
Noun
- He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him.
- we do respect people for their dignity and worth.
- The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet.
- This year's model is superior to last year's in several respects .
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "respect": great, high, utmost, absoluteSynonyms
* (attitude of consideration) deference, consideration, regard, fealty * (good opinion) admiration, esteem, reverence, regard, recognition, veneration, honor * * (aspect) aspect, facet, face, side, dimensionAntonyms
* disrespect (note: also has verb meaning) * contempt * disdain * scorn * contumely * irreverence * disparagementDerived terms
* final respects * in many respects * last respects * with respect toVerb
(en verb)- She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly.
- I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense.
- They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded.
- Thou respectest not spilling Edward's blood.
- In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs.
- Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles.
- To whom my father gave this name of Gaspar, / And as his own respected him to death.
- Palladius adviseth, the front of his house should so respect the South
Antonyms
* dis * disrespectUsage notes
It is possible that a confusion between the different meanings of respect affects the attitudes of people and organizations. For example: * The freedom of religion implies that we mustDerived terms
* respectability * respectable * respected * respectful * disrespect (note: also has noun meaning)Statistics
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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