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Scrubbed vs Orderly - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between scrubbed and orderly

is that scrubbed is with hands washed according to operating room protocol and wearing sterile gown and sterile gloves while orderly is neat and tidy; possessing order.

As a verb scrubbed

is past tense of scrub.

As a noun orderly is

a hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.

As an adverb orderly is

according to good order or practice; appropriately, in a well-behaved way.

scrubbed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (scrub)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (surgery, not comparable) With hands washed according to operating room protocol and wearing sterile gown and sterile gloves.
  • Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

    • orderly

    English

    (wikipedia orderly)

    Alternative forms

    * ordrely (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Neat and tidy; possessing order.
    • He has always kept an orderly kitchen, with nothing out of place.
  • Methodical or systematic.
    • We live in an orderly universe, where rules govern both the movements of planets and the binding of molecules.
  • Peaceful; well-behaved.
    • An orderly gathering of citizens stood on the corner awaiting the bus.
  • Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • aids-de-camp and orderly men

    Derived terms

    * orderliness

    Noun

    (orderlies)
  • A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.
  • A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • * Shakespeare
    • You are blunt; go to it orderly .
  • (obsolete) In order; in a particular order or succession; with a suitable arrangement.
  • *, II.12:
    • Thus orderly marshaled, they take their course and swim whither their journey tends, as broad and wide behind as before.
  • * 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p.149:
    • And in the Tombe which is an arch made of mats, they lay them orderly .