Ordered

Part of speech: adjective, verb

Pronunciation: /ˈɔɹdɚd/

Definitions

1. Placed or arranged in a specific sequence or methodical way ; requested to be provided or performed at a later time
2. Systematically arranged or structured according to a plan ; asked for goods or services to be made or supplied
3. Arranged in a particular order or pattern ; instructed someone to supply or carry out something

Etymology: The past tense of "order" is "ordered," so its history is that of the verb it comes from. The noun behind "order" arrived in English from Old French, which had taken it from Latin "ōrdō," meaning a row or rank. The Latin word could also mean a regular arrangement, and it is linked to "ōrdior," meaning to begin, literally "to begin to weave." Weaving makes the connection clear: the threads of a loom have to be laid out in a set sequence before any cloth can take shape. Latin "ōrdō" is also the source of "ordinem," which passed into Old French as "ordne" and "ordene," meaning order or rank. Middle English then borrowed it as "ordre." English speakers were therefore using the idea of threads laid in line long before the word came to mean tidy sequence in general, and "ordered" still carries that sense of things placed one after another in a fixed row.

Synonyms: arranged, organized, sorted, systematized, structured

Antonyms: chaotic, disordered, messy, haphazard, random