Order : nm (word from latin ordo, computers "rank", "row" and "regular distribution", which also gave adorns).
The word “order” has many meanings:
I) The order intelligible relation between several terms: organization, structure; economy.
“The idea of form merges with the idea of order” (A. Cournot).
“Order […] is a friend of reason and its own object” (Bossuet).
“Order is […] a certain accord between subject and object. It is the spirit finding itself in things” (Bergson).
The universal order of natural laws.
The words “world” and “cosmos” convey the idea of order.
1. Didactics: Arrangement, regular succession (of a spatial, temporal, logical, aesthetic, moral character) (arrangement, distribution).
Order of succeeding terms (sequence, filiation, gradation, succession, continuation), alternate, reproduce at regular intervals (alternation, cycle).
“Conduct my thoughts in order, starting with the simplest objects” (Descartes).
The order of the words in the sentence (syntax).
Put in a certain order (arrange, classify, arrange, to order, tidy).
In what order did the competitors arrive?
Tiercé: in order, out of order.
Change, reverse the order of the terms. Chronological, logical order.
Ascending, descending order.
Let's go in order.
Order of importance.
Alphabetical, numerical order.
In order of appearance.
In order of appearance on screen.
In order of arrival.
Mathematics: Order relation on a set E: binary relation on E, reflexive, transitive and antisymmetric.
Order of a derivative, an equation, a matrix. Matrix of order n, with n rows and n columns.
Order of a group, cardinal of all its elements.
Physics: Order at large distance, statistical order at small distance in a phase: regularity of structure which extends at large, at small distance. Degree of order of a crystalline binary compound.
Interference order: quotient of the path difference between two waves at a point by the wavelength.
Disposition of a troop on the ground: Order of march, of battle. Tight order: type of formation of military units for parade. Dispersed order.
Ships in convoy order. In order of battle.
Figurative meaning: In scattered order: in a disorderly manner; stock market: no clear trend. The market evolves in a dispersed order.
Law: Procedure regulating the distribution of the sale price of a building between creditors. Amicable, judicial order.
Agenda: matters, subjects which a deliberative assembly must deal with in turn, in a certain order. Vote on the agenda. Propose, register, put a question on the agenda.
Adjectival phrase: On the agenda: topical, which we are particularly concerned with at a given time.
“Madame de Sévigné is one of those subjects which is perpetually on the agenda in France” (Sainte-Beuve).
2. Disposition that satisfies the mind, seems the best possible; regular, organized appearance.
Loving order. Bring order. House where order reigns.
"There all is order and beauty, Luxury, calm and voluptuousness" (Baudelaire).
Put his room, his files, his ideas in order.
In order: tidy, orderly.
" Everything is in order. The chairs around the table: it's more distinguished” (Sartre).
The order of a park (order, scheduling).
Good operation. Put a case in order.
To put order to (a situation): to put an end to the disorder, an unfortunate situation. There is waste; we'll put it right.
Phrase Swiss : clean and in order.
3. Quality of a person who has a good organization, method. A person of order and confidence. “the mother, full of order, kept the books […], led the whole house” (Zola).
Specially: Quality of a person who arranges objects in their place and knows how to find them. She has a lot of order (➙ orderly), has no order (disordered).
4. Principle of causality or finality of the world.
“An order regulated from time immemorial by Providence” (La Rochefoucauld).
“God’s order. Now, one must only worship his order” (Pascal).
Phrase: It's in the order (of things): it's normal, inevitable.
5. Social organization: civilization, society.
The social, economic and political order. Shake, overthrow the established order.
“Order as a basis, and progress as an end” (Comte).
Order public : public security, the proper functioning of public services.
Disturb the order public.
Social stability, respect for the established society. supporters of order.
"I like order, I would have liked to be a soldier" (Y. Queffélec).
To maintain, to maintain order.
Maintaining order.
Restore order.
The service of order, which maintains order in a gathering.
“The crowd continued to gather and the security service was overwhelmed” (Simenon).
The forces of order, responsible for repressing a riot, an insurrection (army, police).
6 . Norm, conformity to a rule.
Everything is back to normal, back to normal.
Everything is in order, in order.
To call someone to order, to do something (reprimand).
Machine in working order, in working order.
II) Order, orders, category, class of beings or things:
A. Things:
1. Literature: Special field.
"The order of the event and the order of justice have within them and between them a native contrariety" (Péguy). COURT. Species (abstract things). ➙ kind, nature, kind.
Things of the same order, of different orders.
In the same order, in another order of ideas.
Magnitude*. A number in the order of two million, about two million.
2. In locution: Quality, value (plan).
A second-order, minor (area) work.
Last order.
– Quote from the French writer, philologist, philosopher, epigraphist and historian Ernest Renan (1823-1892): “The exaggerated reputation of Auguste Comte, erected as a great man of the first order”.
3. Ancient architectural system having a unity of style. Greek orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian; Roman orders: Tuscan, Composite.
4. Phylogenetics : Intermediate division between class and family (also suborder, superorder).
The order Coleoptera.
En botanical : A ordre is a group taxonomic consisting of one or more related families.
B. People:
1. Formerly: Division of society (class, state).
The three orders of French society under the Ancien Régime: nobility, clergy, third estate.
The equestrian order, in Rome.
Civil law: Classification of persons or institutions according to certain legal rules.
Order of heirs, creditors.
Order of jurisdictions (civil, criminal, administrative).
2. Association, group of people subject to certain professional, moral rules (corporation, body).
The order of doctors, architects, lawyers.
Unqualified: The council, the president of the order.
Orders of chivalry: The Order of Malta (*).
The Order of the Garter in England (**).
Honorary association constituted by a former order of chivalry or created with a view to rewarding merit.
The Order of the Legion of Honor, the Order of the Liberation.
Insignia of an order.
(*) The Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta (abbreviated Order of Malta) is a Catholic religious order founded in Jerusalem in the XNUMXth century and endowed with a functional sovereignty and an organization international charity. It is one of the organizations that took over from the order of Saint John of Jerusalem.
(**) The Very Noble Order of the Garter (Most Noble Order of the Garter) is the highest of the British orders of chivalry, founded on April 23, 1348 on Saint George's Day, in the middle of the Hundred Years' War, by the King Edward III. According to legend, the creation of this order would have been decided by King Edward III during a ball in Calais, where he was dancing with his mistress, the Countess of Salisbury. The latter having, while dancing, dropped her garter, the king gallantly picked it up under the jokes of the dancers, put it on his knee and cut short the raillery with these words: "Gentlemen, honi be who thinks ill of it." Those who laugh now will be very honored to wear such a ribbon, for this ribbon will be brought into such honor that the scoffers themselves will eagerly seek it. »
3. Association of persons living in the religious state after taking solemn vows. Congregations and religious orders.
By extension: Religious community.
Monastic orders (monk).
Religious belonging to a (regular) order.
Rule, observance, habit of an order.
The order of Benedictines, Dominicans, Jesuits, Carmelites. Mendicant Orders*. the third order (the third after the male and female orders): association whose members, living in the world, practice a rule under the direction and in accordance with the spirit of a religious order (tertiary).
4. One of the degrees of the Catholic clerical hierarchy.
Minor orders (ministry; acolyte, exorcist, reader, doorkeeper).
Major or sacramental orders (bishop, priest, deacon).
Phrase: To enter into orders: to become a monk, priest or nun (to order; ordination).
5. Religion: One of the hierarchies of angels (divided into choirs).
III) An order. Demonstration of a will:
1. Act by which a leader, an authority manifests his will; set of mandatory provisions. ➙ command, instruction, directive, injunction, instruction, prescription.
Formal, express, imperative order. Written, verbal order. Order and counterorder. Give the order to accomplish a mission. Your wishes are orders for us. Come immediately, that's an order!
To give an order (command, order; impose).
Intimate the order of…
Receive an order.
I have no orders to take from anyone.
We have orders. Obey an order, orders. ➙ obedience; comply.
Execute, transgress, break an order.
Acting on (the) order of a superior.
To be at someone's command, to be, to put oneself at his disposal.
At your command, Captain!
Being under someone's orders, being their subordinate, in the hierarchy.
She has thirty people under her command.
Mission order, assigning a soldier a mission to perform.
Without article: By order of the Minister…
Sale by court order.
“She ordered him not to let anyone in” (Laclos).
Until further notice: until an order comes to change the situation; and by extension until a decision, a new fact modifies the situation. You stay there until further notice.
2. Decision, generally materialized by a document, at the origin of a financial, commercial transaction.
Purchase order (order, sale).
Stock market order: mandate to buy or sell securities given to an intermediary.
Place orders. Order at market, without price indication.
Order at the first, at the last price. Transfer order: instruction given by a customer to his banker to transfer money to his account.
Promissory note. Pay to the order of MX Make a check to the order of X.
Trade: Order. Order sheet.
Commercial traveler who takes orders.
3. Slogan: instruction, common resolution to the members of a party.
– Quotation from the French writer Albert Camus (1913-1960): “A watchword had ended up circulating […]: Du pain ou de l'air”.
Agenda of a military leader, all of his instructions, his orders for the day.
To cite a soldier in the order of the day, and elliptical to the order of the battalion, of the army, of the nation, to point him out for his fine conduct. (quote).
Opposites of order: anarchy, chaos, confusion, disorder, defense, prohibition.