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ORDERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
Example:
there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list
Synonyms:
order; ordering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ordering" is a kind of...):
organisation; organization (the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ordering"):
rank order (an arrangement according to rank)
grading; scaling (the act of arranging in a graduated series)
sequence; succession (the action of following in order)
layout (the act of laying out (as by making plans for something))
alphabetisation; alphabetization (the act of putting in alphabetical order)
Derivation:
order (place in a certain order)
order (bring order to or into)
order (assign a rank or rating to)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
Example:
we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation
Synonyms:
order; ordering; ordination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("ordering" is a kind of...):
arrangement (an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ordering"):
bacteria order (an order of bacteria)
word order (the order of words in a text)
genetic code (the ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells)
genome (the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism)
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Derivation:
order (arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb order
Context examples:
“I wish I had the ordering of his dreams,” said I. “He wouldn't sleep there long.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A number that identifies the ordering relations (in time, space, etc.) in a set of pharmacokinetic concentration data.
(Pharmacokinetic Concentration Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus)
A number that identifies the ordering relations (in time, space, etc.) in a set of microbiology specimens.
(Microbiology Specimen Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus)
Following the third position in an ordering or series; coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position.
(Fourth, NCI Thesaurus)
A number that identifies the ordering relations (in time, space, etc.) in a set of microbiology susceptibility data.
(Microbiology Susceptibility Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus)
You might be moving, hiring contractors, or ordering repairs.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"Don't laugh! Act as if it was all right!" and, ordering Roderigo up, banished him from the kingdom with wrath and scorn.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“But have you thought of ordering the window-glass? Just call up the firm,—Red, 4451, I think it is,—and tell them what size and kind of glass you wish.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
After securing accommodations, and ordering a dinner at one of the inns, the next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly down to the sea.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
