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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.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
And, sitting down, he wrote a letter to his broker, ordering him to sell out at the market price.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Never had I heard such an ordering of liqueurs and of highballs of particular brands of Scotch.
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