ORDERLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orderly mean? 

• ORDERLY (noun)
  The noun ORDERLY has 2 senses:

1. a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer

2. a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients

  Familiarity information: ORDERLY used as a noun is rare.

• ORDERLY (adjective)
  The adjective ORDERLY has 2 senses:

1. devoid of violence or disruption

2. clean or organized

  Familiarity information: ORDERLY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDERLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

the orderly laid out the general's uniform

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hospital attendant; orderly

Hypernyms ("orderly" is a kind of...):

attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)

• ORDERLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Devoid of violence or disruption

Context example:

an orderly crowd confronted the president

Antonym:

disorderly (undisciplined and unruly)

Derivation:

orderliness (the quality of appreciating method and system)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Clean or organized

Synonyms:

neat; orderly

Context example:

a neat room

Similar:

tidy (marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits)

Derivation:

order (established customary state (especially of society))

 Context examples 

After searching through it, he took out a selection of tools which he produced to lay beside him in orderly fashion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I see her, with her modest, orderly, placid manner, and I hear her beautiful calm voice, as I write these words.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Diseases affecting the orderly growth and persistence of hair.

(Hair Disorder, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

He has the tidiest and most orderly brain, with the greatest capacity for storing facts, of any man living.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In spite of his strength, however, he was of a slow, orderly, and kindly disposition, so that there was no man more beloved over the whole country side.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also known as an orderly or, when certified by a state agency, a certified nurse assistant.

(Certified Nurse Assistant, NCI Thesaurus)

Precise activation and inactivation of CDKs at specific points in the cell cycle are required for orderly cell division.

(Cell Cycle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The tendency of something to act in a certain manner under given circumstances resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; orderly arrangement.

(Disposition, NCI Thesaurus)

There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Passage through time; duration; a systematic or/and orderly succession; a sequence, e.g. course of treatment; a mode of action or behavior; natural development, typical manner of proceeding.

(Course, NCI Thesaurus)