leg vs order

leg

noun
  • Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman. 

  • A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg. 

  • One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race. 

  • One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely. 

  • A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. 

  • In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. 

  • In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. 

  • A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. 

  • A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest. 

  • An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper. 

  • The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. 

  • A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other. 

  • An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy. 

  • An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg. 

  • The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time. 

  • A stage of a journey, race etc. 

  • A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out. 

  • A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath. 

  • Something that supports. 

  • One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse. 

  • A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land. 

verb
  • To remove the legs from an animal carcass. 

  • To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse'). 

  • To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market. 

  • To build legs onto a platform or stage for support. 

order

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

  • 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. 

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

  • An association of knights. 

  • Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. 

  • Any group of people with common interests. 

  • 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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