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Regularize

Definitions: Regularize

Regularize

Verb

1. Impose regulations on.

2. Make regular or more regular; "regularize the heart beat with a pace maker".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "regularize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

 

Synonyms: Regularize

Synonyms: govern (v), order (v), regularise (v), regulate (v). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: regularized (business).
Antonym: deregulate (v). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Regularize

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Spain

Since then over 600,000 immigrants applied to regularize their status. (references)

Rwanda

However, by year's end, the Government's strategy had changed to one of urging the groups to register with the Ministry of Justice to regularize their status. (references)

Croatia

Ethnic Serbs requiring personal documentation to return or regularize their status continued to experience delays and contradictory requests from local officials. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Vietnam has stepped up its efforts to attract foreign capital from the West and regularize relations with the world financial system. (references)

Human Rights

Oman

The effect of the new law has been to regularize the nature of the cases and the range of corresponding judgments within the Shari'a court system that only deals with family law. (references)

Mauritania

The approval and publication in June of the new Personal Status code created a written framework to regularize the prevailing Shari'a-based family law, which without defining legislation had been applied unfairly. (references)

Political Economy

BAHRAIN

It has already taken positive steps to regularize labor in Bahrain, as is the case of the free visa laborers. (references)

Worker Rights

Andorra

In September a federation workers' association officially was formed that aims to regularize labor relations through dialog. (references)

Malaysia

For example, besides expanding programs to regularize the status of immigrant workers, the Government investigates complaints of abuses, attempts to inform workers of their rights, encourages workers to come forward with their complaints, and warns employers to end abuses. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Regularize

"Regularize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Regularize" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Regularize

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "regularize": over-regularize.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Regularize

Language Translations for "regularize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rregulloj (accommodate, adjust, amend, arrange, attemper, clear up, compose, contrive, control, correct, debug, dispose, dispose of, do, fix up, model, modulate, order, patch up, rate, readjust, redress, regulate, repair, set right, set the tune, settle, shape, Spruce, straighten, tidy up, trim), ia nënshtroj rregullave. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سوى (accommodate, adjust, but, compose, compound, dispose, equalize, equate, even, flatten, normalize, patch, settle, smooth, straighten), ‏ضبط (accuracy, adjust, check, control, dam, detect, exactitude, frame, govern, inspect, measure, monitor, police, preciseness, precision, punctuality, regulate, regulation, rightness, school, set, setting, square, strictness, test, tune, tuning), ‏جعله نظاميا, ‏جعله قانونيا (legalise, legalize, legitimate). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

узаконявам (authorise, authorize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, validate, warrant), регулирам (adjust, govern, regulate, rubricate, temper, time, tune, tune up), нормализирам (normalize). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

规则化 (regularised, regularized). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zpravidelnit, uspořádat (arrange, dispose, dress, make up, order, organize, put in order, regulate, re-sort, settle, sort). (various references)

   

Danish

  

traekning gennem formdyser anvendes for at regulere form og maal af stangmateriale,f.eks.sekskantstaenger eller roer (as with hexagons and tubes, drawing through a shaped draw-plate is used to regularize the shape and dimensions of bar material). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

reguleren (regulate), reglementeren (regulate), regelen (adjust, arrange, control, fix up, organize, put in order, regulate, tidy), vereffenen (acquit, regulate, smooth, smoothing, strike a balance). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

منظم کردن (Array, Order, Qualify, Rank, Tidy), مرتب کردن (Address, Arrange, Concert, Marshal, Range, Redd, Serialize, Straighten, Tidy), نظم دادن , تنظیم کردن (Adjust, Control, Edit, Frame, Modulate, Order, Redact, Regiment, Regulate). (various references)

   

French

  

régulariser (regulate). (various references)

   

German

  

regulieren (adjust, regulate, settle, to regulate), normalisieren (nomalize, normalize), berichtigen (adjust, amend, correct, emend, rectify, regulate, to amend, to correct, to emend, to rectify). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κάνω κανονικό (normalize, standardize), συστηματοποιώ (methodize, systematize, systemize), τακτοποιώ (arrange, clear up, deal with, rearrange, reset, set up, sort, sort out, tidy, trim). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"ס"יר (adjust, order, put to order, regulate, settle, square up). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rendez (arrange, fix up, order, organize, sort, to acquit, to adjust, to calendar, to compose, to get up, to make up, to marshal, to order, to range, to regularize), törvényesít (legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimize, to legitimate, to legitimatize, to legitimize), szabályoz (adjust, control, modulate, regulate, to bring under regulation, to check, to condition, to control, to modulate, to regularize, to regulate, to rule). (various references)

   

Italian

  

regolarizzare (regularise). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cur reiltagh er. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

egularizeray

   

Portuguese

  

regularizar (methodology, regulate, to regulate, to smooth). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

regulariza (rate), pune la punct (adjust, dispose, do, get up). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

упорядочивать (order, put in order), делать правильным. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

regulisati (control, direct, regulate, throttle, tune). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

regularizar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

reglera (adjust, govern, regulate, Square). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

usule uydurmak, devamlılık kazandırmak, düzenli olarak yapmak, düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, compose, construct, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, execute, fix up, forge, form, frame, get things square, get up, give, grade, lay out, line up, methodize, Mount, order, organize, promote, put up, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, stage, string, whack up, work up), düzene koymak, ayarlamak (adjust, arrange, assay, budget, calibrate, collimate, draw up, fix up, gear, justify, lay on, measure, proportion, regulate, reset, scale, set, Square, standardize, syntonize, time, tone, trim, tune). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

упорядковувати (adjust, arrange, compile, fettle, methodize, normalize, order, put in order, set in order). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Regularize

Derivations

Words beginning with "regularize": regularized, regularizes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Regularize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Regularis, rivularis. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Regularize"

Words rhyming with "regularize" (pronounced 'Reg"u*lar*ize'): Abolitionize, Acclimatize, Acetize, Achromatize, Actualize, Adonize, Adulterize, Adverbialize, Africanize, Agatize, Agnize, Agrarianize, Albumenize, Alchemize, Alcoholize, Algebraize, Alkalize, Allotropize, Alphabetize, Aluminize, Amalgamize, Americanize, Amortize, Anabaptize, Anachronize, Anaesthetize, Anagrammatize, Analogize, Anarchize, Anathematize, Anatomize, Angelize, Anglicize, Angurize, Animalize, Annalize, Anthropomorphize, Antipathize, Antiquarianize, Aphetize, Aphorize, Apostatize, Apothegmatize, Apotheosize, Appetize, Apprize, Archaize, Argumentize, Aromatize, Arterialize. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Regularize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-r-r-u-z"

-2 letters: realizer, ruralize.

-3 letters: earlier, gauzier, glarier, glazier, grazier, grueler, leaguer, learier, realize, reargue, regaler, reglaze, regular.

-4 letters: aerier, arguer, galere, glaire, glazer, gluier, grazer, irreal, larger, lazier, league, ligure, railer, realer, regale, regear, reglue, reguli, relier, rulier, uglier.

-5 letters: aerie, agile, aglee, agree, airer, argil, argle, argue, ariel, auger, aurei, azure, eager, eagle, eagre.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-r-r-u-z"
 

+1 letter: regularized, regularizes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Regularize


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 67 75 6C 61 72 69 7A 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100111 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010 01101001 01111010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0067 0075 006C 0061 0072 0069 007A 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52717387786784759271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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