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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
orderly
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an orderly queue (=with no bad behaviour or pushing in front of other people)
▪ She told the children to form an orderly queue.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ When she first arrived, she had thought the place as orderly as a military post.
▪ They were dressed like royalty and were as orderly as a drill team in final competition.
more
▪ Now, that was a much more orderly occasion with people waiting patiently to enter the tent instead of creating a crush.
▪ Prisons might very well be more orderly if conditions were improved.
▪ Other investors, who follow a more orderly calendar, may find their portfolio performance lagging.
■ NOUN
fashion
▪ The Gaijin were piling arms in an orderly fashion.
▪ Proceed in an orderly fashion and disregard curbstone advice.
▪ The tables were covered with the velvet Dave had found and the exhibits laid out in an orderly fashion.
▪ Engrams are not filed in the orderly fashion man-aged by a cleared standard bank.
▪ Journalism is supposed to present facts in an accurate and orderly fashion.
▪ I arrange my papers in an orderly fashion on my driftwood desk and sharpen my pencils, as I always do.
manner
▪ It is also important to plant in an orderly manner to fit the width of your mower cut.
▪ Will my right hon. Friend undertake to ensure that any changes in the milk marketing regulations are introduced in an orderly manner?
▪ Thirdly, the existence of a global data structure allowed the interfaces between components to be specified in an orderly manner.
▪ Sections and documents on a file must be maintained in an orderly manner.
▪ At Canon Grindal's, life was proceeding in an orderly manner in its usual direction.
▪ They waited in a dignified and orderly manner outside the Children's Panel offices.
room
▪ Yussuf's unhappiness had spread a cloud over the whole orderly room.
▪ Where I had my orderly room.
▪ He set off for the orderly room and could not find it.
way
▪ But those regulations do ensure that we, the populace, go about disposing of dead people in an orderly way.
▪ We examine these in an orderly way and assign each system a success or failure branch in respect of its operation.
▪ The rehearsals continued, subdued but in an orderly way.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an orderly crowd
▪ an orderly desk
▪ Police said it was an orderly demonstration and there were no arrests.
▪ The crowd were orderly and in good spirits.
▪ The improvements were put into effect in an orderly manner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, between the shops, the colorful patches of flower beds made it all appear orderly and safe.
▪ But in fact, on the disc itself, the arrangement of the text is anything but neat and orderly.
▪ For some time, astronomers have been seeing hints of an orderly design in the universe.
▪ It purports to be the end of some orderly progression of thought and effort, yet it constitutes a complete non sequitur.
▪ Its structure should be orderly, communications unambiguous, and strategies firmly implemented to prevent splitting.
▪ To live in a stable and orderly community.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A trolley was wheeled past by two brutish-looking orderlies chewing gum.
▪ At first the other orderlies had merely seized upon it as an excuse for extra banter.
▪ Everyone, including aides and orderlies, was taught techniques so that each patient was moved as much as possible.
▪ Male orderlies took the post-morphia cases to tidy places in our little mortuary.
▪ My orderly put more coal on for me.
▪ They were relieved to see five or six inmates, or perhaps it was orderlies, working in the gardens.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orderly

Orderly \Or"der*ly\, adv. According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.

You are blunt; go to it orderly.
--Shak.

Orderly

Orderly \Or"der*ly\, n.; pl. Orderlies.

  1. (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.

  2. A street sweeper. [Eng.]
    --Mayhew.

Orderly

Orderly \Or"der*ly\, a.

  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan.
    --Milton.

  2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.

  3. Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. ``An orderly . . . march.''
    --Clarendon.

  4. Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. ``Aids-de-camp and orderly men.'' --Sir W. Scott. Orderly book (Mil.), a book for every company, in which the general and regimental orders are recorded. Orderly officer, the officer of the day, or that officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the day the arrangements for food, cleanliness, etc. --Farrow. Orderly room.

    1. The court of the commanding officer, where charges against the men of the regiment are tried.

    2. The office of the commanding officer, usually in the barracks, whence orders emanate.
      --Farrow.

      Orderly sergeant, the first sergeant of a company.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
orderly

late 15c., "in due order," from order + -ly (2).

orderly

"arranged in order," 1570s, from order (n.) + -ly (1).

orderly

"military attendant who carries orders," 1781, short for orderly corporal, etc. Extended 1809 to an attendant at a hospital (originally a military hospital) charged with keeping things in order and clean. See orderly (adj.).

Wiktionary
orderly

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 15th c.) 2 (context obsolete English) In order; in a particular order or succession; with a suitable arrangement. (15th-19th c.) n. 1 A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties. 2 A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.

WordNet
orderly

  1. n. a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer; "the orderly laid out the general's uniform"

  2. a male hospital attendant who has general non-medical duties [syn: hospital attendant]

orderly

  1. adj. devoid of violence or disruption; "an orderly crowd confronted the president" [ant: disorderly]

  2. according to custom or rule or natural law [syn: lawful, rule-governed]

  3. not haphazard; "a series of orderly actions at regular hours" [syn: systematic]

  4. marked by or adhering to method or system; "a clean orderly man"; "an orderly mind"; "an orderly desk"

  5. marked by system or regularity or discipline; "a quiet ordered house"; "an orderly universe"; "a well regulated life" [syn: ordered, regulated]

  6. marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a logical argument"; "the orderly presentation" [syn: consistent, logical, ordered]

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Wikipedia
Orderly

A medical orderly (also known as a ward assistant or nurse assistant) is a hospital attendant whose job consists of assisting medical and nursing staff with various nursing and medical interventions. These duties are classified as routine tasks involving no risk for the patient.

Orderly (disambiguation)

An orderly is a hospital attendant whose job consists of assisting medical staff with various medical interventions.

Orderly may also refer to:

  • Batman (military), also known as an orderly—a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant
    • In the United States Air Force, the title of Bay Orderly refers to airmen temporarily assigned to help clean and maintain the community areas of the dormitories during the duty day.
  • The Orderly, an American film
  • The Orderly (1961 film), an Italian film starring Vittorio De Sica

The Orderlies, fictional hexagonal-mouthed humanoids with grilled mouths who serve the Shakri in the Doctor Who episode The Power of Three.

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.