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• order — 1 noun 1 FOR A PURPOSE a) in order to do sth for the purpose of doing something: politicians who make promises simply in order to win more votes | In order to understand how the human body works, you need to have some knowledge of chemistry. b)… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• order — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 way in which people/things are arranged ADJECTIVE ▪ correct, proper, right ▪ wrong ▪ logical ▪ The paragraphs are not in a logical order …   Collocations dictionary

• order — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. orderliness (see order); command; class, kind, rank; society, fellowship, guild (see party); succession, sequence. II Prescribed mode of procedure Nouns 1. order, orderliness, regularity, uniformity …   English dictionary for students

• order — See: APPLE PIE ORDER, CALL TO ORDER, IN ORDER, IN ORDER TO, IN SHORT ORDER, JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED, MADE TO ORDER, OUT OF ORDER, PUT ONE S HOUSE IN ORDER or SET ONE S HOUSE IN ORDER, SHORT ORDER COOK, TO ORDER, WALKING PAPERS or WALKING… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• order — See: apple pie order, call to order, in order, in order to, in short order, just what the doctor ordered, made to order, out of order, put one s house in order or set one s house in order, short order cook, to order, walking papers or walking… …   Словарь американских идиом

• order — n 1. command, commandment, mandate, dictate, dictum, direction, directive, instruction, behest, Archaic. hest, imperative, ultimatum; prescript, prescription, enjoinment; rule, regulation, act, law, ordinance, statute, edict, decree, fiat, ukase …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• List of characters in the American Pie film series — This is a list of characters from American Pie (film series) consisting of American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), American Wedding (2003), American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005), American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006), American Pie… …   Wikipedia

• trim — v 1. clip, snip, nip, prune, pare; cut, bob, crop, shingle; shear, shave, fleece, pollard, poll, scalp, cut down to the quick; neaten, even up; shape, form, fashion, sculpt, sculp, sculpture. 2.Often trim off dock, bobtail, lop, chop, hack, cut… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• arrangement — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Putting in proper order Nouns 1. arrangement, plan, preparation, disposition, disposal, distribution, deployment, sorting; configuration, form, format, grouping, placement, formation, constitution,… …   English dictionary for students

• tidy — [adj1] clean, neat apple pie order*, businesslike, chipper*, cleanly, in good shape, methodical, neat as a pin*, ordered, orderly, shipshape*, sleek, snug, spick and span*, spruce, systematic, to rights*, trim, uncluttered, well groomed, well… …   New thesaurus

• tidy — adj 1. neat, trim, in trim, ordered, orderly, in order, Inf. in apple pie order, snug, Chiefly Dial. tight, Chiefly Brit. trig, Fr. en regie; spruce, shipshape, Naut. shipshape and Bristol fashion, spick and span. 2. organized, well organized,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder