I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an orderly queue (= with no bad behaviour or pushing in front of other people )
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She told the children to form an orderly queue.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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When she first arrived, she had thought the place as orderly as a military post.
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They were dressed like royalty and were as orderly as a drill team in final competition.
more
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Now, that was a much more orderly occasion with people waiting patiently to enter the tent instead of creating a crush.
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Prisons might very well be more orderly if conditions were improved.
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Other investors, who follow a more orderly calendar, may find their portfolio performance lagging.
■ NOUN
fashion
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The Gaijin were piling arms in an orderly fashion .
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Proceed in an orderly fashion and disregard curbstone advice.
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The tables were covered with the velvet Dave had found and the exhibits laid out in an orderly fashion .
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Engrams are not filed in the orderly fashion man-aged by a cleared standard bank.
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Journalism is supposed to present facts in an accurate and orderly fashion .
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I arrange my papers in an orderly fashion on my driftwood desk and sharpen my pencils, as I always do.
manner
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It is also important to plant in an orderly manner to fit the width of your mower cut.
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Will my right hon. Friend undertake to ensure that any changes in the milk marketing regulations are introduced in an orderly manner ?
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Thirdly, the existence of a global data structure allowed the interfaces between components to be specified in an orderly manner .
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Sections and documents on a file must be maintained in an orderly manner .
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At Canon Grindal's, life was proceeding in an orderly manner in its usual direction.
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They waited in a dignified and orderly manner outside the Children's Panel offices.
room
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Yussuf's unhappiness had spread a cloud over the whole orderly room .
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Where I had my orderly room .
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He set off for the orderly room and could not find it.
way
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But those regulations do ensure that we, the populace, go about disposing of dead people in an orderly way .
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We examine these in an orderly way and assign each system a success or failure branch in respect of its operation.
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The rehearsals continued, subdued but in an orderly way .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an orderly crowd
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an orderly desk
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Police said it was an orderly demonstration and there were no arrests.
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The crowd were orderly and in good spirits.
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The improvements were put into effect in an orderly manner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, between the shops, the colorful patches of flower beds made it all appear orderly and safe.
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But in fact, on the disc itself, the arrangement of the text is anything but neat and orderly .
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For some time, astronomers have been seeing hints of an orderly design in the universe.
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It purports to be the end of some orderly progression of thought and effort, yet it constitutes a complete non sequitur.
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Its structure should be orderly , communications unambiguous, and strategies firmly implemented to prevent splitting.
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To live in a stable and orderly community.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A trolley was wheeled past by two brutish-looking orderlies chewing gum.
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At first the other orderlies had merely seized upon it as an excuse for extra banter.
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Everyone, including aides and orderlies, was taught techniques so that each patient was moved as much as possible.
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Male orderlies took the post-morphia cases to tidy places in our little mortuary.
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My orderly put more coal on for me.
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They were relieved to see five or six inmates, or perhaps it was orderlies, working in the gardens.