The difference between Command and Order
When used as nouns, command means an order to do something, whereas order means arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
When used as verbs, command means to order, give orders, whereas order means to set in some sort of order.
check bellow for the other definitions of Command and Order
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Command as a noun:
An order to do something.
Examples:
"I was given a command to cease shooting."
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Command as a noun:
The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
Examples:
"to have command of an army"
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Command as a noun:
power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
Examples:
"he had command of the situation"
"England has long held command of the sea"
"a good command of language"
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Command as a noun:
A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
Examples:
"General Smith was placed in command."
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Command as a noun:
The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
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Command as a noun (military):
A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
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Command as a noun:
Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
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Command as a noun (computing):
A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
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Command as a noun (baseball):
The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
Examples:
"He's got good command tonight."
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Command as a verb (ambitransitive):
To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
Examples:
"The soldier was commanded to cease firing."
"The king commanded his servant to bring him dinner."
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Command as a verb (ambitransitive):
To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.
Examples:
"to command an army or a ship"
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Command as a verb (transitive):
To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
Examples:
"he commanded silence"
"If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread.'' (Mat. IV. 3.)"
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Command as a verb (transitive):
to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
Examples:
"Bridges commanded by a fortified house.'' (Motley.)"
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Command as a verb (transitive):
To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
Examples:
"A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people."
"Justice commands the respect and affections of the people."
"The best goods command the best price."
"This job commands a salary of £30,000."
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Command as a verb (transitive):
To hold, to control the use of.
Examples:
"The fort commanded the bay."
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Command as a verb (intransitive, archaic):
To have a view, as from a superior position.
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Command as a verb (obsolete):
To direct to come; to bestow.
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Order as a noun (countable):
Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
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Order as a noun (countable):
A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
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Order as a noun (uncountable):
The state of being well arranged.
Examples:
"The house is in order; the machinery is out of order."
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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"
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Order as a noun (countable):
A command.
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Order as a noun (countable):
A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
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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."
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Order as a noun (countable):
An association of knights
Examples:
"the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath."
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Order as a noun:
any group of people with common interests.
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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.
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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."
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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"
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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"
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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.
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Order as a noun (cricket):
The sequence in which a side's batsmen bat; the batting order.
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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."
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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.
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Order as a noun (set theory):
The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
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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).
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Order as a noun (graph theory):
The number of vertices in a graph.
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Order as a noun (order theory):
A partially ordered set.
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Order as a noun (order theory):
The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
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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."
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Order as a verb (transitive):
To set in some sort of order.
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Order as a verb (transitive):
To arrange, set in proper order.
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Order as a verb (transitive):
To issue a command to.
Examples:
"to order troops to advance"
"He ordered me to leave."
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Order as a verb (transitive):
To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
Examples:
"to order groceries"
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Order as a verb:
To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.