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ordering

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ordering - A relation.

See partial ordering, pre-order, total ordering.


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These qualities, it is true, are those pre-eminently of the "Works and Days": the literary values of the "Theogony" are of a more technical character, skill in ordering and disposing long lists of names, sure judgment in seasoning a monotonous subject with marvellous incidents or episodes, and no mean imagination in depicting the awful, as is shown in the description of Tartarus (ll.
And, sitting down, he wrote a letter to his broker, ordering him to sell out at the market price.
Never had I heard such an ordering of liqueurs and of highballs of particular brands of Scotch.
 
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