order

«order» in Mova's school dictionary: the way things follow one after another: in alphabetical… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (order, orders); verb (order, orders, ordered, ordering)

meaning for a pupil

1) Order is the way things follow one after another: in alphabetical order, in order of size. tree →

2) To order is to ask to buy something, or the thing you ask for: order a pizza, your order is ready. tree →

3) To order also means to put things in order. tree →

4) An order is a command, and to order someone is to tell them what to do. tree →

5) In order means tidy, or working well; out of order means broken. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: putting numbers in order from least to greatest; ordering food or things to buy; «order of operations». In everyday life: ordering at a café, ordering online, lining up in order. In science: ordering steps of an experiment, ordering animals by size. In stories: a king's orders; «out of order» on a broken machine.

examples

• Put the numbers in order from least to greatest. tree →
• She ordered 3 pizzas. tree →
• Each order has 6 boxes. tree →
• The orders came in this order: Tom, Sam, Ann. tree →
• Line up in alphabetical order. tree →
• The lift is out of order. tree →
• The captain gave the order to sail. tree →
• Your order will arrive in three days. tree →
• Write the steps of the experiment in the right order. tree →
• Servants came, and he ordered supper. tree →

note

Ordering things to buy: cost = price × number. «In order» asks you to sort, not to calculate. Trap: «order of operations» means do × and ÷ before + and −. «In order to» means «so that»: «I ran in order to catch the bus». Least to greatest = ascending; greatest to least = descending.

In the corpora

• Breakfast-show presenters are paid professionals working from a running order and an earpiece; the friendly chat is planned.
• Films are usually filmed out of order to save time and money, for example shooting every scene in one place together.
• A missing piece rarely ruins a model: builders swap in another brick, and single pieces can be ordered.
• In tests in Hawaii, dolphins understood that word order in hand-signal sentences changes the meaning.
• The Frog-Footman repeats it "only changing the order of the words a little": "From the Queen.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «order» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.