RAND Antonyms

• place into or assign to a category

• (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed

• (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy

• a degree in a continuum of size or quantity

• established customary state (especially of society)

• logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements

• a condition of regular or proper arrangement

• a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

• a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities

• a formal association of people with similar interests

• a body of rules followed by an assembly

• a group of person living under a religious rule

• (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families

• a request for something to be made, supplied, or served

• (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans

• the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement

• give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

• make a request for something

• issue commands or orders for

• bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

• bring order to or into

• place in a certain order

• appoint to a clerical posts

• arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

• assign a rank or rating to

• create (as an entity)

• cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea

• plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

• bring order and organization to

• arrange by systematic planning and united effort

• form or join a union

• a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished

• an arrangement scheme

• scale drawing of a structure

• have the will and intention to carry out some action

• make plans for something

• make or work out a plan for; devise

• make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form

• a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior

• something regarded as a normative example

• prescribed guide for conduct or action

• (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice

• a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct

• the duration of a monarch's or government's power

• dominance or power through legal authority

• directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted

• any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order

• a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system

• (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems

• measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

• exercise authority over; as of nations

• decide with authority

• be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

• decide on and make a declaration about

• have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac

• mark or draw with a ruler

• keep in check

• serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern

• a following of one thing after another in time

• film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie

• the action of following in order

• several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys

• arrange in a sequence

• determine the order of constituents in

• a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts

• the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts

• the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations

• a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement

• the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships

• give a structure to

• arrange according to a system or reduce to a system

• To reduce to method or order; to arrange in an orderly or systematic manner.

• To make someone orderly or methodical.

• To convert someone to Methodism.

• To talk Methodistically.

• To perform a theatrical role in accordance with the principles of method acting.