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ORDERED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ordered mean?
• ORDERED (adjective)
The adjective ORDERED has 3 senses:
1. having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule
2. disposed or placed in a particular kind of order
3. marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
Familiarity information: ORDERED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule
Context example:
an ordered sequence
Similar:
consecutive; sequent; sequential; serial; successive (in regular succession without gaps)
progressive ((of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position)
Antonym:
disordered (not arranged in order)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Disposed or placed in a particular kind of order
Synonyms:
arranged; ordered
Context example:
comfortable chairs arranged around the fireplace
Similar:
laid; set (set down according to a plan)
placed (put in position in relation to other things)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
Synonyms:
coherent; consistent; logical; ordered
Context example:
a coherent argument
Similar:
seamless (perfectly consistent and coherent)
Also:
logical (capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning)
rational (consistent with or based on or using reason)
Context examples
The first (lowest) level of severity in an ordered list based on a five-level scale of minimal, mild, moderate, marked, and severe.
(Minimum, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It was very provoking to be arrested in the act of a first trying-on, and ordered out to make calls in her best array on a warm July day.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But when the king had ordered a feast to be got ready for the third time, it happened just the same as before.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The second level of severity in an ordered list based on a five-level scale of minimal, mild, moderate, marked, and severe.
(Mild, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
He ordered much meat to be given, and White Fang, gorged and sleepy by the fire, knew that the law had received its verification.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A data type comprised of a set of consecutive low values of an ordered point in time date datatype.
(Low Interval Point in Time Date Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)
The third level of severity in an ordered list based on a five-level scale of minimal, mild, moderate, marked, and severe.
(Moderate, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A number designating a place in an ordered sequence.
(Ordinal Position, NCI Thesaurus)
Time after time he was ordered below in disgrace.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We ordered her funeral to be carried out by Stimson and Co., of the Kennington Road, who will bury her at eight o’clock to-morrow morning.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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