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Definitions: Regularize |
RegularizeVerb1. 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: RegularizeSynonyms: govern (v), order (v), regularise (v), regulate (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: regularized (business). |
| Antonym: deregulate (v). (additional references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "regularize": over-regularize. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 regularizar (methodology, regulate, to regulate, to smooth). (various references) regulariza (rate), pune la punct (adjust, dispose, do, get up). (various references) упорядочивать (order, put in order), делать правильным. (various references) regulisati (control, direct, regulate, throttle, tune). (various references) regularizar. (various references) reglera (adjust, govern, regulate, Square). (various references) 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) упорядковувати (adjust, arrange, compile, fettle, methodize, normalize, order, put in order, set in order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "regularize": regularized, regularizes. (additional references) | |
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"Regularize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Regularis, rivularis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| 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) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 67 75 6C 61 72 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . --. ..- .-.. .- .-. .. --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100111 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e g u l a r i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0067 0075 006C 0061 0072 0069 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52717387786784759271 |
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