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orderly Adjective 1. tidy or well-organized: they evacuated the building in an orderly manner 2. well-behaved; law-abiding Noun pl -lies 1. Med a male hospital attendant 2. Mil a soldier whose duty is to carry orders or perform minor tasks for a more senior officer orderliness n
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orderly adjective 1. well-behaved, controlled, disciplined, quiet, restrained, law-abiding, nonviolent, peaceable, decorous << OPPOSITE disorderly adjective 2. well-organized, ordered, regular, in order, organized, trim, precise, neat, tidy, systematic, businesslike, methodical, well-kept, shipshape, systematized, well-regulated, in apple-pie order (informal) << OPPOSITE disorganized Translations (MED) → auxiliar m/f (de hospital) adj → ordenado (Med) → Pfleger(in) m(f) adj [manner] → ordentlich; (sequence, system) → geordnet |
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In transcribing his notes and fortifying their claim to attention by giving them something of an orderly arrangement, I have conscientiously refrained from embellishing them with such small ornaments of diction as I may have felt myself able to bestow, which would not only have been impertinent, even if pleasing, but would have given me a somewhat closer relation to the work than I should care to have and to avow. Again, a beautiful object, whether it be a living organism or any whole composed of parts, must not only have an orderly arrangement of parts, but must also be of a certain magnitude; for beauty depends on magnitude and order. His face assumed, in spite of himself, an expression of almost stupid joy, and he waited with impatience until the fragment of the mare given to his orderly was cooked. |
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