regular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English reguler, from Anglo-Norman reguler, Middle French reguler, regulier, and their source, Latin rēgulāris (“continuing rules for guidance”), from rēgula (“rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“move in a straight line”).
Inflected forms:
form: more regular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most regular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reg'lar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: reg
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: reg.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: regulars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reg'lar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reg.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
pos: adj
examples: regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy
A quarter of a million strong in 1680, the clergy was only half as large in 1789. The unpopular regular clergy were the worst affected.
gloss: Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
pos: adj
gloss: Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
pos: adj
gloss: Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
pos: adj
gloss: Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
pos: adj
examples: April may be the cruellest month, but I am planning to render it civilised and to take my antibiotics in a regular manner.
gloss: Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
pos: adj
gloss: Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
pos: adj
examples: He made regular visits to go see his mother.
gloss: Following a set or common pattern; according to the general rules of a given language.
pos: adj
tags: plural
examples: "Walked" is the past tense of the regular verb "to walk".
gloss: Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: “I don’t see how you can write and act such splendid things, Jo. You’re a regular Shakespeare!” exclaimed Beth, who firmly believed that her sisters were gifted with wonderful genius in all things.
For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
gloss: Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
pos: adj
gloss: Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
pos: adj
examples: Maintaining a high-fibre diet keeps you regular.
Gulls cawed and wheeled overhead, dropping splatty white cluster bombs on rooftops and pavements. Goodness knows what those gulls eat, but it certainly keeps them regular.
gloss: Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: a regular genius; a regular John Bull
Don't worry, boy. We're gonna set you straight. By tomorrow morning, you'll be a regular Burt Reynolds.
gloss: Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
pos: adj
examples: a regular flower; a regular sea urchin
gloss: Isometric.
pos: adj
gloss: Riding with the left foot forward.
pos: adj
gloss: Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A von Neumann regular: such that every left module (over the given ring) is flat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
pos: noun
gloss: A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
pos: noun
examples: Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.
gloss: A member of the armed forces or police force.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the armed forces or police force.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
examples: Boss, this is the situation. They were regulars in the army. They’ve left the army and are taxi drivers now. He was a commando and he was a state boxer. They don’t earn much and there’s no end.
gloss: A frequent customer, client or business partner.
pos: noun
examples: This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars.
gloss: A character who appears in every episode of a TV series; a member of the regular cast.
pos: noun
examples: When it comes to regulars, some shows feature ensemble casts in which all the characters are more or less equal and the focus of the show shifts from one member of the ensemble to another from episode to episode.
gloss: A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: Anything that is normal or standard.
pos: noun
examples: You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees.
gloss: A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
pos: noun
gloss: A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
pos: noun
gloss: A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
pos: noun
Antonyms: irregular
non-regular
nonregular
Related words: nap the regulars
quasiregular
rail
regal
régime
regimen
regularity
regularly
regulate
regulation
rule
semiregular
register
Derived words: antiregular
biregular
equiregular
extraregular
hyperregular
on a regular basis
on the regular
overregular
preregular
proregular
regioregular
regular army
regular as clockwork
regular black hole
regular closed
regular coffee
regular continued fraction
regular dividend
regular-duty
regular element
regular expression
regular folk
regular folks
regular function
regular graph
regular grid
regular guy
regular hexahedron
regular insulin
regularisation
regularise
regularization
regularize
regular Joe
regular language
regular map
regular muscle-prism
regular necrophiliac
regularness
regular open
regular order
regular polygon
regular prime
regular script
regular space
regular star macromolecule
regular tessellation
regular verb
semi-regular
stereoregular
subregular
superregular
unregular
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: կանոնավոր
roman: kanonavor
lang: Bulgarian
word: официа́лен
roman: oficiálen
lang: Bulgarian
word: форма́лен
roman: formálen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 有規律的 /有规律的
roman: yǒu guīlǜ de
lang: Danish
word: regelmæssig
lang: Dutch
word: regelmatig
lang: Finnish
word: säännönmukainen
lang: Finnish
word: säännöllinen
lang: French
word: en ordre
lang: Galician
word: regular
lang: Hindi
word: नियमित
roman: niymit
lang: Hungarian
word: szabályos
lang: Hungarian
word: szabályszerű
lang: Irish
word: rialta
lang: Italian
word: regolare
lang: Latin
word: legitimus
lang: Latin
word: legitima
lang: Persian
word: باقاعده
roman: bâqâ'ede
lang: Portuguese
word: regular
lang: Russian
word: пра́вильный
roman: právilʹnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: пра́вильний
roman: právylʹnyj