| 单词 | orderly |
| 释义 | orderly (once / 519 pages) 1adj 2adj 3n 4n Orderly means neat, tidy, and well-organized. An orderly library makes it easy to find the books you want. A thing or place can be orderly, like a desk, refrigerator, or a hospital, and so can a person, particularly if they are very calm and well-behaved. And when it's a noun, orderly means a hospital worker who does many non-medical jobs and generally keeps things neat and tidy — orderly, in other words. The Latin root is ordinem, "arrangement or row," which originally meant "a row of threads in a loom." WORD FAMILYorderly: orderlies, orderliness+/disorder: disordered, disordering, disorderly, disorders/disordered: disorderedly/disorderly: disorderliness/order: disorder, ordered, orderer, ordering, orderly, orders, reorder, suborder, superorder/ordered: unordered/orderer: orderers/ordering: orderings/reorder: reordered, reordering, reorders/suborder: suborders USAGE EXAMPLESAmazingly, people move in an orderly fashion as they heed arrows that guide them up and down stairs and along sidewalks. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) But they risk upending conventions developed since Mao’s death to allow flexibility in government and ensure a regular and orderly transition of power. Wall Street Journal(Dec 26, 2016) Most of the “extra-continentals” turn themselves in voluntarily to Mexican authorities, forming orderly queues each morning outside the federal immigration detention center in Tapachula. Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1 adj clean or organized 2Syn neat tidy marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits adj devoid of violence or disruption 3an orderly crowd confronted the president Ant disorderly undisciplined and unruly boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unrulynoisy and lacking in restraint or discipline mobbish, moblikecharacteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless raucous, rowdydisturbing the public peace; loud and rough bare-knuckle, bare-knuckled, rough-and-tumblecharacterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules n a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients 4Syn|Hyper hospital attendant attendant, attender, tender someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another n a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer the orderly laid out the general's uniform Hyper attendant, attender, tender someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another soldieran enlisted man or woman who serves in an army |
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