All ordinate synonyms
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O o verb ordinate
- bar β A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
- beckon β If you beckon to someone, you signal to them to come to you.
- bid β A bid for something or a bid to do something is an attempt to obtain it or do it.
- call β a demand for redeemable bonds or shares to be presented for repayment
- charge β If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- cheque β A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
- cite β If you cite something, you quote it or mention it, especially as an example or proof of what you are saying.
- compel β If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
- debar β If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
- dictate β If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
- enact β Make (a bill or other proposal) law.
- enjoin β Instruct or urge (someone) to do something.
- exact β Not approximated in any way; precise.
- forbid β to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place: to forbid him entry to the house.
- grant β to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- impose β to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- inflict β to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- inhibit β to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- instruct β to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- interdict β Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
- oblige β to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
- ordain β to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- order β an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- proclaim β to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- prohibit β to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- requisition β the act of requiring or demanding.
- restrain β to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- set β to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- subpoena β the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- summon β to call upon to do something specified.
- task β a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- warn β to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- call on β If you call on someone to do something or call upon them to do it, you say publicly that you want them to do it.
- call upon β to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- lay down the law β the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- rule out β a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- send for β to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- take charge β able or seemingly able to take charge: She is a take-charge management type.
- border β The border between two countries or regions is the dividing line between them. Sometimes the border also refers to the land close to this line.
- mark β Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837β1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897β1904.
- adjoin β If one room, place, or object adjoins another, they are next to each other.
- follow β to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- line up β a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- score β the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- touch β to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- abut β When land or a building abuts something or abuts on something, it is next to it.
- align β If you align yourself with a particular group, you support them because you have the same political aim.
- array β An array of different things or people is a large number or wide range of them.
- bound β Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind.