orderly
part of speech
adjective (orderly); noun (an orderly, orderlies)
meaning for a pupil
1) Orderly means tidy and well arranged: an orderly desk. tree →
2) Orderly means calm and well behaved, without pushing: an orderly queue. tree →
3) (noun) An orderly is a person who helps in a hospital, carrying things and moving patients, or a soldier who helps an officer. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school and safety: leave the building in an orderly way during a fire drill; make an orderly line. In hospitals: orderlies help nurses. It tells the reader things are calm and organised.
examples
- Please walk out in an orderly line. tree →
- The fire drill was quick and orderly. tree →
- Her pencils were in an orderly row. tree →
- The crowd waited in an orderly queue. tree →
- A hospital orderly pushed the wheelchair. tree →
- Keep your notes neat and orderly. tree →
note
Though it ends in -ly, «orderly» is an adjective, not an adverb: say «in an orderly way», not «they left orderly». Opposite: disorderly. From «order».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «orderly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.