order vs twist

order

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

  • 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 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. 

  • 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. 

twist

noun
  • A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination. 

  • A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc. 

  • A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage. 

  • A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc. 

  • A twisting force. 

  • The form given in twisting. 

  • An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc. 

  • A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape. 

  • The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon. 

  • A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details. 

  • The degree of stress or strain when twisted. 

  • Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. 

  • A small roll of tobacco. 

  • A sprain, especially to the ankle. 

  • A girl, a woman. 

  • A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together. 

  • A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together. 

  • A rotation of the body when diving. 

verb
  • To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force. 

  • To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. 

  • To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating. 

  • In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card. 

  • To turn a knob etc. 

  • To join together by twining one part around another. 

  • To wind into; to insinuate. 

  • To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings). 

  • To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends. 

  • To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction. 

  • To cause to rotate. 

  • To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. 

  • To coax. 

  • To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips). 

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