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orderly
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Word definitions for orderly in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orderly \Or"der*ly\, n.; pl. Orderlies . (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service. Orderlies were appointed to watch the palace. --Macaulay. A street sweeper. [Eng.] --Mayhew. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "in due order," from order + -ly (2).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer; "the orderly laid out the general's uniform" a male hospital attendant who has general non-medical duties [syn: hospital attendant ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 neat and tidy; possessing order. 2 methodical or systematic. 3 peaceful; well-behaved. 4 Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. adv. 1 (context now rare English) According to good order or practice; appropriately, in a well-behaved way. (from ...
Usage examples of orderly.
And in that orderly transfer of power from an absolutist to a constitutional monarchy French commentators saw not merely a consummation of political virtue but the origins of British financial success.
State courts have acted, the federal courts will usually leave the prisoner to the usual and orderly procedure of appeal to the Supreme Court.
They had never before had a chance to look into the armoury, but now at a glance Hal saw that it was all laid out in a neat and orderly fashion.
We must have cleanliness, asepsis if possible, and an orderly technique.
Kraft had got mixed up innocently also in the Splendid Atabrine Insurrection that had begun in Puerto Rico on the first leg of their flight overseas and ended in Pianosa ten days later with Appleby striding dutifully into the orderly room the moment he arrived to report Yossarian for refusing to take his Atabrine tablets.
Bonaparte attacked and took the town, and while the Volkhovskys were retiring in an orderly fashion from their outpost position on the south bank of the Aube, a small, plump man in a plain grey greatcoat and a large cocked hat rode forward among the French soldiers attacking the bridgehead.
He went on into the orderly room grinning and Old Ike bawled Atten HUT again, making it two words again, and the men still went on working.
There is no orderly transfer of authority when bosses are often murdered by a wild gun who aspires only to their power.
Injected at the speed of light, but in a digitized and orderly manner, matter broken down into energy might well be reduced to an equation, or series of equations, written in energy itself.
Prescott, there was a little package for Captain Wren, expressed, and Doty signed the receipt and sent it by the orderly.
So, in such good company I may introduce an absinthe drip -- one absinthe drip, dripped through a silver dripper, orderly, opalescent, cool, green-eyed -- deceptive.
The staircase of the building looked extremely neat and orderly, yet in no way luxurious--being lined only with drugget pinned down with highly-polished brass rods.
She had of her own motion elected her loyal governor, and now for a year and a half the administration of the State was in a comparative degree orderly and regular.
After walking a couple of hundred yards you come to a muddy place much cut up, surrounded by gabions, cellars, platforms, and dug-outs, on which large cast-iron cannon are mounted and cannon-balls lie piled in orderly heaps.
Afterward, he and Gaye had wandered through the Burrows, the surface-and-tunnel community of the local halflings, then through orderly Giff-Town, with its quaint and long-winded signs.