orderly
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
orderly
- Neat and tidy; possessing order.
- He has always kept an orderly kitchen, with nothing out of place.
- Methodical or systematic.
- We live in an orderly universe, where rules govern both the movements of planets and the binding of molecules.
- Peaceful; well-behaved.
- An orderly gathering of citizens stood on the corner awaiting the bus.
- Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
- 1814 July 6, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. In Three Volumes, volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598 ↗:
- (possessing order) regular, trim, well-kept; see also Thesaurus:orderly
- (methodical or systematic) See also Thesaurus:methodical
- French: ordonné
- German: ordentlich
- Italian: ordinato
- Russian: опря́тный
- Spanish: ordenado
- German: ordentlich
- Russian: упоря́доченный
- Spanish: metódico
- German: ordentlich
- Russian: споко́йный
- Spanish: pacífico
orderly (plural orderlies)
- A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.
- A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.
- German: Pflegehelfer
- Portuguese: servente
- Russian: санита́р
- Spanish: camillero
- French: planton
- German: Sanitätssoldat (medical), Sanitätssoldatin (medical)
- Italian: attendente
- Russian: ордина́рец
orderly
- (now, rare) According to good order or practice; appropriately, in a well-behaved or orderly way. [from 15th c.]
- c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- You are blunt; go to it orderly.
- 1991, Chor-San Heng Khoo, Physics of Liquid Crystalline Materials, CRC Press (ISBN 9782881244810), page 33:
- Phase R: the rods are linked three by three and form planar twodimensional hexagonal networks. In both cases, the networks are orderly stacked in a three-dimensional lattice.
- 2014, Huei-Huang Lee, Finite Element Simulations with ANSYS Workbench 15: Theory, Applications, Case Studies, SDC Publications (ISBN 9781585039074), page 191:
- The rectangles are orderly stacked with the topmost rectangle representing the most visible entity and subsequent rectangles representing entities underneath the mouse cursor, front to back.
- (obsolete) In order; in a particular order or succession; with a suitable arrangement. [15th-19th c.]
- 1567, Arthur Golding, translating Ovid, Metamorphoses, I:
- The earth from heaven, the sea from earth, he parted orderly, / And from the thicke and foggie ayre, he tooke the lightsome skie.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- Thus orderly marshaled, they take their course and swim whither their journey tends, as broad and wide behind as before […].
- 1624, John Smith (explorer), Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p.149:
- And in the Tombe which is an arch made of mats, they lay them orderly.
- 1567, Arthur Golding, translating Ovid, Metamorphoses, I:
- (in order) methodically, systematically; see also Thesaurus:methodically
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