The difference between Civilization and Order

When used as nouns, civilization means an organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people, whereas order means arrangement, disposition, or sequence.


Civilization is also proper_noun with the meaning: collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the civilised world.

Order is also verb with the meaning: to set in some sort of order.

check bellow for the other definitions of Civilization and Order

  1. Civilization as a noun:

    An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.

    Examples:

    "the Aztec civilization'"

    "Western civilization'"

    "Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization."

  2. Civilization as a noun (uncountable):

    Human society, particularly civil society.

    Examples:

    "A hermit doesn't much care for civilization."

    "I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family."

  3. Civilization as a noun:

    The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.

    Examples:

    "The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task."

  4. Civilization as a noun:

    The state or quality of being civilized.

    Examples:

    "He was a man of great civilization."

  5. Civilization as a noun (obsolete):

    The act of rendering a criminal process civil.

  1. Order as a noun (countable):

    Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

  2. Order as a noun (countable):

    A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

  3. Order as a noun (uncountable):

    The state of being well arranged.

    Examples:

    "The house is in order; the machinery is out of order."

  4. Order as a noun (countable):

    Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.

    Examples:

    "to preserve order in a community or an assembly"

  5. Order as a noun (countable):

    A command.

  6. Order as a noun (countable):

    A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

  7. Order as a noun (countable):

    A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles

    Examples:

    "St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537."

  8. Order as a noun (countable):

    An association of knights

    Examples:

    "the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath."

  9. Order as a noun:

    any group of people with common interests.

  10. Order as a noun (countable):

    A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.

  11. Order as a noun (countable, taxonomy):

    A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.

    Examples:

    "Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales."

  12. Order as a noun:

    A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.

    Examples:

    "the higher or lower orders of society"

    "talent of a high order"

  13. Order as a noun:

    An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.

    Examples:

    "to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry"

  14. Order as a noun (architecture):

    The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.

  15. Order as a noun (cricket):

    The sequence in which a side's batsmen bat; the batting order.

  16. Order as a noun (electronics):

    a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit's block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

    Examples:

    "a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter."

  17. Order as a noun (chemistry):

    The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.

  18. Order as a noun (set theory):

    The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.

  19. Order as a noun (group theory, of an element of a group):

    For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the identity element of G; if no such number exists, the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).

  20. Order as a noun (graph theory):

    The number of vertices in a graph.

  21. Order as a noun (order theory):

    A partially ordered set.

  22. Order as a noun (order theory):

    The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.

  23. Order as a noun (algebra):

    The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.

    Examples:

    "A quadratic polynomial, <math>a x^2 + b x +c,</math> is said to be of order (or degree) 2."

  1. Order as a verb (transitive):

    To set in some sort of order.

  2. Order as a verb (transitive):

    To arrange, set in proper order.

  3. Order as a verb (transitive):

    To issue a command to.

    Examples:

    "to order troops to advance"

    "He ordered me to leave."

  4. Order as a verb (transitive):

    To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

    Examples:

    "to order groceries"

  5. Order as a verb:

    To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.