[W/K] :: orderly

  Orderly \Or"der*ly\, adv.
     According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.
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           You are blunt; go to it orderly.         --Shak.
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  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.
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              Orderlies were appointed to watch the palace.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     2. A street sweeper. [Eng.] --Mayhew.
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  Orderly \Or"der*ly\, a.
     1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly
        course or plan. --Milton.
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     2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient;
        quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an
        orderly community.
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     3. Performed in good or established order; well-regulated.
        "An orderly . . . march." --Clarendon.
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     4. Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
        "Aids-de-camp and orderly men." --Sir W. Scott.
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     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.
        (a) The court of the commanding officer, where charges
            against the men of the regiment are tried.
        (b) 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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  orderly
       adj 1: 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]
       n 1: 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]

  213 Moby Thesaurus words for "orderly":
     Ganymede, Hebe, X-ray technician, accordant, accurate, adjutant,
     airline hostess, airline stewardess, aligned, alike, always,
     anesthetist, arranged, arrayed, assistant, assorted, at every turn,
     at peace, attendant, automatic, balanced, batman, bellboy, bellhop,
     bellman, bloodless, bootblack, boots, businesslike, cabin boy,
     caddie, calm, categorized, chipper, chore boy, civil, civilized,
     classified, composed, concinnate, concinnous, concordant,
     connected, consecutive, consistent, consonant, constant,
     constantly, constituted, continually, continuous, conventional,
     copyboy, correct, correspondent, courteous, cupbearer, decorous,
     dietitian, disciplined, disorderly, disposed, dresser, equable,
     equal, errand boy, errand girl, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious,
     even, exact, fixed, flat, flowing, fluent, footboy, formal,
     general, gofer, graded, grouped, habitual, halcyon, harmonious,
     harmonized, homogeneous, hospital administrator, hostess, idyllic,
     immutable, in apple-pie order, in hand, invariable, invariably,
     joined, laboratory technician, law-abiding, level, like clockwork,
     mannerly, marshaled, measured, mechanical, menial, messenger,
     methodic, methodical, methodically, methodized, meticulous,
     monolithic, natural, naturalistic, naturistic, neat,
     never otherwise, normal, normalized, of a piece, office boy,
     office girl, ordered, organized, pacific, page, pastoral,
     peaceable, peaceful, peacetime, persistent, physical therapist,
     physiotherapist, piping, placed, polite, precious, precise,
     precisian, precisionist, punctilious, puristic, quiet,
     radiographer, radiotherapist, ranged, ranked, realistic, regular,
     regular as clockwork, regularized, regularly, regulated, restful,
     robotlike, routine, routinized, scrupulous, sequent, sequential,
     serene, serial, servant, shipshape, smooth, smooth-sounding, snug,
     soft, sorted, squire, stable, standardized, steadfast, steadily,
     steady, steward, stewardess, sweet, symmetrical, synchronized,
     systematic, systematically, systematized, systemized, tender, tidy,
     tight, trainbearer, tranquil, tripping, typical, unbroken,
     unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated,
     undiversified, unexceptional, uniform, uninterrupted, unruffled,
     untroubled, unvaried, unvarying, usher, usual, well-behaved,
     well-mannered, well-ordered, well-regulated, without exception,
     yeoman