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Orderly

Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan.

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Tidy 84% connected

The wren; -- called also tiddy.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Tidy 84% connected

The wren; -- called also tiddy.

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Attendant 76% connected

Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Attender 76% connected

One who, or that which, attends.

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Soldier 76% connected

One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.

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Tender 76% connected

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

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Order 74% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Order 74% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Neat 92% connected

Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disorderly 94% connected

Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.

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Disorderly 94% connected

Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.

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Array noun · 78% connection

Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.

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Beside noun · 78% connection

Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of.

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Bond noun · 78% connection

The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways…

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Conceive verb · 78% connection

To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.

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Consecutive adjective · 78% connection

Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval o…

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Course noun · 78% connection

A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a cou…

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Crash course noun · 78% connection

a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency); "he took a crash course in Italian on his way…

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Crash program noun · 78% connection

a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency); "he took a crash course in Italian on his way…

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Crash programme noun · 78% connection

a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency); "he took a crash course in Italian on his way…

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Departure noun · 78% connection

Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.

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Design noun · 78% connection

The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan sh…

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Devise verb · 78% connection

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought…

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Draff noun · 78% connection

A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.

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Homology noun · 78% connection

The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small,…

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Irregular adjective · 78% connection

Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable t…

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Just adjective · 78% connection

Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact;…

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Lead verb · 78% connection

To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course…

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March verb · 78% connection

TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause…

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