ordering
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈɔrdərɪŋ/
:
ordenación
- The ordering of the books on the shelf made it easier to find what I needed.
- rank ordering
- temporal ordering
- causal ordering
It didn't reflect the value ordering that they had.
- It didn't reflect the value ordering that they had.
- You will have to get fiercely good at rank ordering everything.
Examples
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They think the world needs to be ordered from above and that they should be the ones doing the ordering.
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They set out a way of living and an ordering of values.
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I do all the ordering.
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It's remembering the order in which the words go.
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I've just been in a meeting and working on ordering stuff for the office.
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But now a number of new applications are helping to streamline the ordering process.
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The grid pattern has been used as a mechanism of spatial ordering for centuries.
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Differences between the two groups could be examined to see what effect question ordering has on self-efficacy beliefs.
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Dad, I've been going through, uh, our inventory and, um, I've noticed that we've been doing a lot of unnecessary ordering.
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Lesson topics were vocabulary development, point of view, predicting, ordering of events, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, and dramatic reading.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
The arrangement of things in a neat sequence
135
2.7
The way things are placed or organized in a place
72
2.7
Arranging people or things in a neat, planned order
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4.1
Putting things like steps or events in a particular order
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7.8
An order of parts or ideas that makes them easy to understand
Putting things in a certain order by time, size, or other features
Things arranged or done one after another in a set order
Antonyms
How Ordered
- US
1
7.0
- US
72
2.7
135
2.7
18
2.7
31
3.7
438
3.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ordering comes from the simple word order, which goes back to Latin ordo meaning 'row' or 'line'. Think of putting books or people in a row or line; that's why ordering means arranging things in a particular sequence or order.