plural of stroke order

Former name of Kyzylorda.

(nautical, historical) A permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.

plural of stiffening order

plural of suppression order

A gag order.

(computing) A character indicating the endianness of a string of text; specifically, the Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.

(set theory) An ordinal number which is neither zero nor a successor of an ordinal.

(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of order

A poisonous tree of Madagascar (Cerbera manghas (syn. Tanghinia venenifera). Those suspected of crime were forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals were put to death by being pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.