Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Orderly state or condition; regularity; order.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being orderly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The fact of having a
regular ,proper andsystematic arrangement . - noun Orderly
behaviour .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a condition of regular or proper arrangement
- noun the quality of appreciating method and system
Etymologies
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Examples
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I thought it was amazing,'' Mr. Tada said, referring to the orderliness of the departure.
Plant Workers Recall Moment Quake Struck Phred Dvorak 2011
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"Without the Fed acting as lender of last resort, today could have been much worse," Mickey Levy, chief economist at Bank of America, tells The Wall Street Journal, which calls the orderliness of U.S. stock trading yesterday the passage of an important test for the Federal Reserve and its unprecedented steps to keep markets calm in recent days.
What They Are Saying 2008
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"Conservatives tend to be higher in a personality trait called orderliness and lower in openness.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Mama Engine is in the middle of her "Great Work" and refashioning Whitechapel into a gritty and grotesque landscape, while Grandfather Clock keeps a kind of orderliness through his own minions and his all-seeing presence.
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Believe me it is possible to live as cheaply in expensive Vienna as anywhere else; it all depends on the housekeeping and the orderliness which is never to be found in a young man especially if he be in love.
Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1905
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It's really no easier to find them, and yet the appearance of greater orderliness is satisfying.
Gretchen Rubin: Clearing Clutter? Think About Appearances, Too. Gretchen Rubin 2011
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It's really no easier to find them, and yet the appearance of greater orderliness is satisfying.
Gretchen Rubin: Clearing Clutter? Think About Appearances, Too. Gretchen Rubin 2011
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I want to increase orderliness, and also make areas simply look more orderly.
Gretchen Rubin: Clearing Clutter? Think About Appearances, Too. Gretchen Rubin 2011
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President Jimmy Carter has been in Sudan this week to monitor the historic independence vote and to meet with top officials, and he praised the poll's high turnout and orderliness.
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I want to increase orderliness, and also make areas simply look more orderly.
Gretchen Rubin: Clearing Clutter? Think About Appearances, Too. Gretchen Rubin 2011
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