8.4.5.1 Order, sequence

Use this domain for words referring to temporal order or sequence--the order in which a group of events happen. Things and people may also be in order based on the order in which something happened or should happen to them.

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61 Sequence
  • What words refer to the order or sequence of a group of events?
    order, sequence, cycle, pattern, rota, order of events,
  • What words refer to a group of events that happen in order?
    sequence, series, succession, chain, course, progression,
  • What words refer to a group of things in a series?
    series, lineup, queue,
  • What words describe a group of things that have been put in order?
    be in order, ordered, in sequence, be the right way round, in chronological order, chronological, consecutive, consecutively, successive, in succession, one after another, one after the other, (three years) running, sequential,
  • What words refer to doing things in order?
    in order, take turns,
  • What words refer to the particular order in which something comes?
    place, position, where something comes,
  • What words describe a group of things that have not been put in order?
    unordered, out of sequence
  • What words describe a group of things in the wrong order?
    be out of order, be in the wrong order, be the wrong way round, backwards,
  • What words refer to something missing from a group of things in order?
    gap
  • In English 'Order' can be expressed by a noun phrase with no overt marker.
  • In English 'Order' can be expressed by a 'be' clause with the 'Item' in the subject position.
    be,
  • In English 'Order' can be expressed by a noun phrase with the 'Item' marked by 'of'.
    of,