See Also: CLEANLINESS
Chaotic as the floor of the stock exchange at the closing bell —William Diehl
The person whose neatness is likened to that of a Dutch housekeeper is novelist Henry Miller.
See Also: EMPTINESS
See Also: SOFTNESS
This has its roots in the English expression “Neat as a ninepence,” and serves as continuing inspiration for catchy “Neat as” comparisons.
Another example of a simile used as an introducer, in this case a poem entitled Nothing More Will Happen.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one marching orders - an order from a superior officer for troops to depart summons - an order to appear in person at a given place and time word - a verbal command for action; "when I give the word, charge!" armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
2. | order - a degree in a continuum of size or quantity; "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude" magnitude - the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea" | |
3. | order - established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" civil order, polity - the form of government of a social organization rule of law - a state of order in which events conform to the law concordance, concord, harmony - a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole stability - a stable order (especially of society) peace - the state prevailing during the absence of war disorder - a disturbance of the peace or of public order | |
4. | order - logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" bacteria order - an order of bacteria word order - the order of words in a text arrangement - an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging; "a flower arrangement" genetic code - the ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells genome - the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism; "the human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base pairs" series - similar things placed in order or happening one after another; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies" | |
5. | order - a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order" condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" spit and polish - careful attention to order and appearance (as in the military) tidiness - the habit of being tidy disorderliness, disorder - a condition in which things are not in their expected places; "the files are in complete disorder" | |
6. | ![]() act, enactment - a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body consent decree - an agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court; for example, a company might agree to stop certain questionable practices without admitting guilt curfew - an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited decree nisi - a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date imperial decree - a decree issued by a sovereign ruler judicial separation, legal separation - a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart programma - an edict that has been publicly posted stay - a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court" papal bull, bull - a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla) law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" | |
7. | ![]() commercial document, commercial instrument - a document of or relating to commerce bill-me order, credit order - an order that is received without payment; requires billing at a later date indent - an order for goods to be exported or imported market order - an order to a broker to sell or buy stocks or commodities at the prevailing market price production order - an order that initiates the manufacturing process reorder - a repeated order for the same merchandise; "he's the one who sends out all the new orders and reorders" stop order, stop-loss order - an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level stop payment - a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check mail order - a purchase negotiated by mail | |
8. | ![]() association - a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association" bookclub - a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices chapter - a local branch of some fraternity or association; "he joined the Atlanta chapter" chess club - a club of people to play chess country club - a suburban club for recreation and socializing frat, fraternity - a social club for male undergraduates glee club - a club organized to sing together golf club - a club of people to play golf investors club - a club of small investors who buy and sell securities jointly jockey club - a club to promote and regulate horse racing racket club - club for players of racket sports rowing club - a club for rowers slate club - a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas) sorority - a social club for female undergraduates turnverein - a club of tumblers or gymnasts boat club, yacht club - club that promotes and supports yachting and boating service club - a club of professional or business people organized for their coordination and active in public services club member - someone who is a member of a club | |
9. | order - a body of rules followed by an assembly interpellation - (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy standing order - a rule of order permanently in force point of order - a question as to whether the current proceedings are allowed by parliamentary procedure previous question - a motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly | |
10. | ![]() acolyte - someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches anagnost - a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) deacon - a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders ostiarius, ostiary, doorkeeper - the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church exorcist - one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church lector, reader - someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church priest - a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders subdeacon - a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church | |
11. | ![]() Augustinian order - any of several monastic orders observing a rule derived from the writings of St. Augustine Benedictine order, order of Saint Benedict - a Roman Catholic monastic order founded in the 6th century; noted for liturgical worship and for scholarly activities Carmelite order, Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel - a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the 12th century Carthusian order - an austere contemplative Roman Catholic order founded by St. Bruno in 1084 Dominican order - a Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century Franciscan order - a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in the 13th century Jesuit order, Society of Jesus - a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship | |
12. | order - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families animal order - the order of animals protoctist order - the order of protoctists biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders suborder - (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order family - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family" plant order - the order of plants fungus order - the order of fungi | |
13. | order - a request for something to be made, supplied, or served; "I gave the waiter my order"; "the company's products were in such demand that they got more orders than their call center could handle" short order - an order for food that can be prepared quickly | |
14. | order - (architecture) 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 Dorian order, Doric order - the oldest and simplest of the Greek orders and the only one that normally has no base Ionian order, Ionic order - the second Greek order; the capital is decorated with spiral scrolls Corinthian order - the last Greek order; similar to the Ionic order except the capital is decorated with carvings of acanthus leaves Composite order - a Roman order that combines the Corinthian acanthus leaves with the spiral scrolls of the Ionic order Tuscan order - a Roman order that resembles the Doric order but without a fluted shaft artistic style, idiom - the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom" architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" | |
15. | order - the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" organisation, organization - the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; "his organization of the work force was very efficient" rank order - an arrangement according to rank succession, sequence - the action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence" layout - the act of laying out (as by making plans for something) alphabetisation, alphabetization - the act of putting in alphabetical order | |
Verb | 1. | order - give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" direct - command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework" instruct - give instructions or directions for some task; "She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation" request - ask (a person) to do something; "She asked him to be here at noon"; "I requested that she type the entire manuscript" send for, call - order, request, or command to come; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!" warn - ask to go away; "The old man warned the children off his property" |
2. | order - make a request for something; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage" reorder - make a new request to be supplied with; "The store had to reorder the popular CD several times" place - to arrange for; "place a phone call"; "place a bet" call for, request, bespeak, quest - express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" call - order or request or give a command for; "The unions called a general strike for Sunday" wish - order politely; express a wish for commission - place an order for | |
3. | order - issue commands or orders for inflict, impose, bring down, visit - impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students" mandate - make mandatory; "the new director of the school board mandated regular tests" | |
4. | order - bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate" standardize, standardise - cause to conform to standard or norm; "The weights and measures were standardized" decide, make up one's mind, determine - reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations" | |
5. | order - bring order to or into; "Order these files" clean up, neaten, square away, tidy, tidy up, straighten, straighten out - put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!" systematise, systematize, systemise, systemize - arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge" collate - to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers" | |
6. | order - place in a certain order; "order the photos chronologically" | |
7. | order - appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" | |
8. | order - arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize - arrange or represent events so that they co-occur; "synchronize biblical events" phrase - divide, combine, or mark into phrases; "phrase a musical passage" | |
9. | order - assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" superordinate - place in a superior order or rank; "These two notions are superordinated to a third" shortlist - put someone or something on a short list seed - distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds reorder - assign a new order to subordinate - rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools" prioritise, prioritize - assign a priority to; "we have too many things to do and must prioritize" sequence - arrange in a sequence downgrade - rate lower; lower in value or esteem upgrade - rate higher; raise in value or esteem pass judgment, evaluate, judge - form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" |