English dictionary: words starting with ord - page 1

adverb

With regard to, or at the level of, orders in a taxonomic system; according to an ordinal number, system, etc.; on an ordinal scale; with regard to order.

noun

Short for ordinal number.

adjective

Relating to the order of something in a series.

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Ordinal scales

noun

An authoritative order.

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The details regarding the narrow limits that exist on the right to use these rooms and tight contro…

noun

An authoritative order.

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The details regarding the narrow limits that exist on the right to use these rooms and tight contro…

noun

A person who is training to be ordained as a priest or minister.

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Her priests and ordinands are fallible human beings, but they are serious about their faith and com…

noun

A person who is training to be ordained as a priest or minister.

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Her priests and ordinands are fallible human beings, but they are serious about their faith and com…

noun

The ordinate of a point.

adjective

Of a person or thing: able to order or direct; that orders, arranges, or regulates.

noun

Ordinary in various senses.

noun

What is commonplace or standard.

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Their clichés were vested with enough emotion to elevate them above the ordinary

adjective

With no special or distinctive features; normal.

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He sets out to depict ordinary people

adverb

Usually.

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A person who is ordinarily resident in the united kingdom

noun

The quality of not being different or special or unexpected in any way

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She expected him to act like a star, but she was surprised at his ordinariness., the dull ordinarin…

adjective

With no special or distinctive features; normal.

Usage examples:

He sets out to depict ordinary people

noun

What is commonplace or standard.

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Their clichés were vested with enough emotion to elevate them above the ordinary

noun

A straight line from any point drawn parallel to one coordinate axis and meeting the other, especially a coordinate measured parallel to the vertical.

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The negative and positive signs on the ordinate mean, respectively, underestimation and overestimat…

adjective

Able to move in a very easy and controlled way, especially when playing sports or dancing

noun

A straight line from any point drawn parallel to one coordinate axis and meeting the other, especially a coordinate measured parallel to the vertical.

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The negative and positive signs on the ordinate mean, respectively, underestimation and overestimat…

verb

To make various, separate things work together

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Voluntary organizations will need to coordinate their efforts to help the homeless., patients learn…

noun

The action of ordaining someone in holy orders.

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The ordination of women

noun

The action of ordaining someone in holy orders.

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The ordination of women

noun

A person who ordains.

noun

A newly ordained deacon, or a candidate for ordination to the priesthood.

noun

Mounted guns; artillery.

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The gun was a brand new piece of ordnance

noun

An ordinal, directory, or book of rubrics; an office or service with its rubrics.

noun

The systematic or orderly arrangement of parts, especially in art and architecture.

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Almost from the moment it appeared, joyce's book began attracting the impassioned adherents who hav…

noun

The systematic or orderly arrangement of parts, especially in art and architecture.

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Almost from the moment it appeared, joyce's book began attracting the impassioned adherents who hav…

noun

An ordinal, directory, or book of rubrics; an office or service with its rubrics.