Commentary: a command given by a superior that must be obeyed (often plural)(often from a military superior or law enforcement officer)
Examples:
The British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders form London.
A friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there.
Allowing cats into George and Fido's new club is a violation of club orders.
Mappings:
PropBank: order.01
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 1 6 9
Commentary: "order of" a degree in a continuum of size or quantity
Examples:
It was on the order of a mile.
An explosion of low order of magnitude
Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 2
Commentary: established customary state (especially of society)
Examples:
Order ruled in the streets after the new mayor got to work.
Law and order...
The judge shouted "order in the court".
Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 3
Commentary: ORDER[+event] ordering, ordination - logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
Examples:
We shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation.
There were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list.
Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 4 15
Commentary: a condition of regular or proper arrangement
Examples:
He put his desk in order.
The machine is now in working order.
Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 5
Commentary: a request for some supply for payment
Examples:
IBM received an order for a hundred computers.
The food arrived quickly once we gave the waiter our order.
Mappings:
PropBank: order.02
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 7 13
Commentary: a formal association of people
Examples:
Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today.
The order of Saint Benedict...
Theologians still disagree over whether 'bishop' should or should not be a separate order.
Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 8 10 11
Commentary: taxonomic group containing one or more families
Examples:
Cetacea is a scientific order which includes whales.
All dolphins, porpoises, and whales are grouped together in the same scientific order.
Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 12
Commentary: one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans
Examples:
The Ionic order of architecture is very similar to the Doric order.
Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 14