Order vs. Indent
Difference Between Order and Indent
Ordernoun
A condition of logical or comprehensible arrangement among the separate elements of a group.
Indentverb
To set (the first line of a paragraph, for example) in from the margin.
Ordernoun
A condition of methodical or prescribed arrangement among component parts such that proper functioning or appearance is achieved
checked to see that the shipping department was in order.Indentverb
To cut or tear (a document with two or more copies) along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for establishing authenticity.
Ordernoun
Condition or state in general
The escalator is in good working order.Indentverb
To draw up (a document) in duplicate or triplicate.
Ordernoun
The established system of social organization
"Every revolution exaggerates the evils of the old order" (C. Wright Mills).Indentverb
To notch or serrate the edge of; make jagged.
Ordernoun
A condition in which freedom from disorder or disruption is maintained through respect for established authority
finally restored order in the rebellious provinces.Indentverb
To make notches, grooves, or holes in (wood, for example) for the purpose of mortising.
Ordernoun
A sequence or arrangement of successive things
changed the order of the files.Indentverb
To fit or join together by or as if by mortising.
Ordernoun
The prescribed form or customary procedure, as in a meeting or court of law
The bailiff called the court to order.Indentverb
Chiefly British To order (goods) by purchase order or official requisition.
Ordernoun
An authoritative indication to be obeyed; a command or direction.
Indentverb
To make or form an indentation.
Ordernoun
A command given by a superior military officer requiring obedience, as in the execution of a task.
Indentverb
Chiefly British To draw up or order an indent.
Ordernoun
orders Formal written instructions to report for military duty at a specified time and place.
Indentverb
To impress (a design, for example); stamp.
Ordernoun
A commission or instruction to buy, sell, or supply something.
Indentnoun
The act of indenting or the condition of being indented.
Ordernoun
That which is supplied, bought, or sold.
Indentnoun
A blank space before the beginning of an indented line
a two-pica indent.Ordernoun
A request made by a customer at a restaurant for a portion of food.
Indentnoun
An indenture.
Ordernoun
The food requested.
Indentnoun
A US certificate issued at the close of the American Revolution for interest due on the public debt.
Ordernoun
(Law) A directive or command of a court.
Indentnoun
Chiefly British An official requisition or purchase order for goods.
Ordernoun
Any of several grades of the Christian ministry
the order of priesthood.Indentnoun
An indentation.
Ordernoun
often orders The rank of an ordained Christian minister or priest.
Indentnoun
A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
Ordernoun
often orders The sacrament or rite of ordination.
Indentnoun
A stamp; an impression.
Ordernoun
Any of the nine grades or choirs of angels.
Indentnoun
A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
Ordernoun
A group of persons living under a religious rule
Order of Saint Benedict.Indentnoun
A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
Ordernoun
An organization of people united by a common fraternal bond or social aim.
Indentverb
(transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
to indent the edge of paperOrdernoun
A group of people upon whom a government or sovereign has formally conferred honor for unusual service or merit, entitling them to wear a special insignia
the Order of the Garter.Indentverb
(intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
Ordernoun
The insignia worn by such people.
Indentverb
To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
indent a smooth surface with a hammerto indent wax with a stampOrdernoun
often orders A social class
the lower orders.Indentverb
(historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
Ordernoun
A class defined by the common attributes of its members; a kind.
Indentverb
To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
Ordernoun
Degree of quality or importance; rank
poetry of a high order.Indentverb
To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servantOrdernoun
Any of several styles of classical architecture characterized by the type of column and entablature employed. Of the five generally accepted classical orders, the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders are Greek and the Tuscan and Composite orders are Roman.
Indentverb
(typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
to indent the first line of a paragraph one emto indent the second paragraph two ems more than the firstOrdernoun
A style of building
a cathedral of the Gothic order.Indentverb
To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
Ordernoun
(Biology) A taxonomic category of organisms ranking above a family and below a class.
Indentverb
To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
Ordernoun
The sum of the exponents to which the variables in a term are raised; degree.
Indentnoun
an order for goods to be exported or imported
Ordernoun
An indicated number of successive differentiations to be performed.
Indentnoun
the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
Ordernoun
The number of elements in a finite group.
Indentverb
set in from the margin;
Indent the paragraphs of a letterOrdernoun
The number of rows or columns in a determinant or matrix.
Indentverb
cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication;
indent the documentsOrderverb
To issue a command or instruction to
ordered the sailors to stow their gear.Indentverb
make a depression into;
The bicycle dented my carOrderverb
To direct to proceed as specified
ordered the intruders off the property.Indentverb
notch the edge of or make jagged
Orderverb
To give a command or instruction for
The judge ordered a recount of the ballots.Indentverb
bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant;
an indentured servantOrderverb
To request to be supplied with
order eggs and bacon for breakfast.Orderverb
To put into a methodical, systematic arrangement
ordered the books on the shelf.Orderverb
To predestine; ordain.
Orderverb
To give an order or orders; request that something be done or supplied.
Ordernoun
(countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
Ordernoun
(countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
Ordernoun
(uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.Ordernoun
(countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
to preserve order in a community or an assemblyOrdernoun
(countable) A command.
Ordernoun
(countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
Ordernoun
(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
St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.Ordernoun
(countable) An association of knights
the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.Ordernoun
any group of people with common interests.
Ordernoun
(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.
Ordernoun
A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.Ordernoun
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.
the higher or lower orders of societytalent of a high orderOrdernoun
An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministryOrdernoun
(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.
Ordernoun
(cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
Ordernoun
(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.Ordernoun
(chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
Ordernoun
(set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
Ordernoun
For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the identity element of G; if no such number exists, the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
Ordernoun
(graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
Ordernoun
(order theory) A partially ordered set.
Ordernoun
(order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
Ordernoun
(algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
A quadratic polynomial, is said to be of order (or degree) 2.Orderverb
(transitive) To set in some sort of order.
Orderverb
(transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
Orderverb
(transitive) To issue a command to.
to order troops to advanceHe ordered me to leave.Orderverb
(transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
to order groceriesOrderverb
To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
Ordernoun
(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed;
the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from LondonOrdernoun
a degree in a continuum of size or quantity;
it was on the order of a milean explosion of a low order of magnitudeOrdernoun
established customary state (especially of society);
order ruled in the streetslaw and orderOrdernoun
logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements;
we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentationOrdernoun
a condition of regular or proper arrangement;
he put his desk in orderthe machine is now in working orderOrdernoun
a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge);
a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out thereOrdernoun
a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities;
IBM received an order for a hundred computersOrdernoun
a formal association of people with similar interests;
he joined a golf clubthey formed a small lunch societymen from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen todayOrdernoun
a body of rules followed by an assembly
Ordernoun
(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy;
theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate orderOrdernoun
a group of person living under a religious rule;
the order of Saint BenedictOrdernoun
(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
Ordernoun
a request for food or refreshment (as served in a restaurant or bar etc.);
I gave the waiter my orderOrdernoun
(architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans
Ordernoun
putting in order;
there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the listOrderverb
give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority;
I said to him to go homeShe ordered him to do the shoppingThe mother told the child to get dressedOrderverb
make a request for something;
Order me some flowersorder a work stoppageOrderverb
issue commands or orders for
Orderverb
bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations;
We cannot regulate the way people dressThis town likes to regulateOrderverb
bring order to or into;
Order these filesOrderverb
place in a certain order;
order these filesOrderverb
appoint to a clerical posts;
he was ordained in the ChurchOrderverb
arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.;
arrange my scheduleset up one's lifeI put these memories with those of bygone timesOrderverb
assign a rank or rating to;
how would you rank these students?The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide
