clutch vs order

clutch

noun
  • A group or bunch (of people or things). 

  • The claw of a predatory animal or bird. 

  • An important or critical situation. 

  • A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs. 

  • A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car. 

  • A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).) 

  • A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle. 

  • Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle. 

  • A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil. 

  • The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels. 

  • A difficult maneuver 

adj
  • Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations. 

verb
  • To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity. 

  • To hatch. 

  • To seize, as though with claws. 

  • To grip or grasp tightly. 

  • To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation. 

order

noun
  • Any group of people with common interests. 

  • The state of being well arranged. 

  • A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles. 

  • The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products. 

  • 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. 

  • A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. 

  • A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods. 

  • The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design. 

  • The number of vertices in a graph. 

  • The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set. 

  • The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order. 

  • A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order. 

  • An association of knights. 

  • Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. 

  • 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. 

  • A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank. 

  • Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet. 

  • A command. 

  • An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders. 

  • A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. 

  • 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). 

  • A partially ordered set. 

  • The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set. 

  • The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial. 

verb
  • To arrange, set in proper order. 

  • To issue a command to. 

  • To set in some sort of order. 

  • To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. 

  • To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order. 

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