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ORDERLY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients
Synonyms:
hospital attendant; orderly
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("orderly" is a kind of...):
attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer
Example:
the orderly laid out the general's uniform
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("orderly" is a kind of...):
attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)
soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Devoid of violence or disruption
Example:
an orderly crowd confronted the president
Classified under:
Antonym:
disorderly (undisciplined and unruly)
Derivation:
orderliness (the quality of appreciating method and system)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Clean or organized
Example:
a neat room
Synonyms:
neat; orderly
Classified under:
Similar:
tidy (marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits)
Derivation:
order (established customary state (especially of society))
Context examples:
A mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior.
(Confusion, NCI Thesaurus)
When we hove to, a hasty though orderly confusion reigned.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
These soon took a pleasure in doing their work well, in keeping their persons neat, in learning their tasks regularly, in acquiring quiet and orderly manners.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
An orderly array of DNA samples affixed to a support.
(DNA Microarray Chip, NCI Thesaurus)
Their composition, whether of atoms, molecules, grains or cells, do not lie in a neat, orderly pattern, but, instead, are all jumbled up.
(Materials, like metallic glass, can help us understand how cells break, NSF)
As she used them, Jo found herself humming the songs Beth used to hum, imitating Beth's orderly ways, and giving the little touches here and there that kept everything fresh and cozy, which was the first step toward making home happy, though she didn't know it till Hannah said with an approving squeeze of the hand...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They were called on to share in the awkwardness of a rather long interval between the courses, and obliged to be as formal and as orderly as the others; but when the table was again safely covered, when every corner dish was placed exactly right, and occupation and ease were generally restored, Emma said, The arrival of this pianoforte is decisive with me.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The resilience and strength of bone is due to the orderly mineralization of a specialized extracellular matrix (ECM) composed of type I collagen (90%) and a host of non-collagenous proteins that are, in general, also found in other tissues.
(Function of SLRP in Bone Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
He was in high spirits, doing everything with happy ease, and preeminent in all the lively turns, quick resources, and playful impudence that could do honour to the game; and the round table was altogether a very comfortable contrast to the steady sobriety and orderly silence of the other.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Ten picked shots under Aylward stood in line across the broad deck, and it was a lesson to the young squires who had seen nothing of war to note how orderly and how cool were these old soldiers, how quick the command, and how prompt the carrying out, ten moving like one.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
