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Definition: Regular |
RegularAdjective1. In accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle; "his regular calls on his customers"; "regular meals"; "regular duties". 2. Often used as intensifiers; "a regular morass of details"; "a regular nincompoop"; "he's a veritable swine". 3. Conforming to a standard or pattern; "following the regular procedure of the legislature"; "a regular electrical outlet". 4. (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula. 5. Regularly scheduled for fixed times; "at a regular meeting of the PTA"; "regular bus departures". 6. In accord with regular practice or procedure; "took his regular morning walk"; "her regular bedtime". 7. Occurring at fixed intervals; "a regular beat"; "the even rhythm of his breathing". 8. Relating to a person who does something regularly; "a regular customer"; "a steady drinker". 9. (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces; "the regular army". 10. : not constipated. 11. : symmetrically arranged; "even (or regular) features; "a regular polygon". 12. : not deviating from what is normal; "her regular bedtime". 13. : officially full-time; "regular students". Noun1. A regular patron: "an habitue of the racetrack". 2. A soldier in the regular army. 3. A dependable follower (especially in party politics); "he is one of the party regulars". 4. A garment size for persons of average height and weight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "regular" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Of a forest, crop or stand constituted of trees whose crowns form an ordered, even canopy; the trees are not necessarily even-aged. Source: European Union. (references) |
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In mathematics, a polyhedron (from Greek Poly for "many" and hedron for "base", "seat", or "face") is a three-dimensional shape that is made up of faces which are parts of planes, the faces meet in edges which are straight line segments, and the edges meet in points called vertices. Cubes, prisms and pyramids are examples of polyhedra. The polyhedron surrounds a volume in three-dimensional space; sometimes this interior volume is considered to be part of the polyhedron. A polyhedron is a three-dimensional analog of a polygon. The general term for polygons, polyhedra and even higher dimensional analogs is polytope.
A polyhedron
(dodecahedron)A polyhedron is
There are only five regular convex polyhedra. These have been known since ancient times, and are called the Platonic solids (see pictures there):
- convex if the line segment joining any two points of the polyhedron is contained in the polyhedron's interior
- vertex-uniform if all vertices are the same, in the sense that for any two vertices there exists a symmetry of the polyhedron mapping the first onto the second
- edge-uniform if all edges are the same, in the sense that for any two edges there exists a symmetry of the polyhedron mapping the first onto the second
- face-uniform if all faces are the same, in the sense that for any two faces there exists a symmetry of the polyhedron mapping the first onto the second
- regular if it is vertex-uniform, edge-uniform and face-uniform
Name Vertices Edges Faces Edges/Face Edges/Vertex Symmetry group Tetrahedron 4 6 4 3 3 Td Cube or hexahedron 8 12 6 4 3 Oh Octahedron 6 12 8 3 4 Oh Dodecahedron 20 30 12 5 3 Ih Icosahedron 12 30 20 3 5 Ih Note how these come in natural pairs: the dodecahedron with the icosahedron, the cube with the octahedron, and the tetrahedron with itself (ok, so that's not a pair). These are called duals, and can be obtained by connecting the midpoints of each other's faces, among other interesting things. There are also five regular polyhedral compounds.
If you allow the polyhedra to be non-convex, there are four more, called the Kepler-Poinsot solids.
Polyhedra which are vertex- and edge-uniform, but not necessarily face-uniform, are called quasi-regular and include two more convex forms (the cuboctahedron and icosidodecahedron, as well as a few non-convex forms. The duals of these are the edge- and face-uniform polyhedra: the rhombic dodecahedron, rhombic triacontahedron, plus whatever the non-convex ones are. No other convex edge-uniform polyhedra exist.
Any polyhedron which is vertex-uniform can be deformed slightly to form a vertex-uniform polyhedron with regular polygons as faces. These are called semi-regular polyhedra. Convex forms include two infinite series, one of prismss and one of antiprisms, as well as the thirteen Archimedean solids. The duals of these are of course the face-uniform polyhedra, with the two infinite convex series becoming the bipyramids and trapezohedra. These don't have regular faces, but do have regular vertices.
Another thing to consider is what kind of polyhedra, of any symmetry, can be made of regular polygons. There are an infinite number of non-convex forms, but surprisingly only a finite number of convex shapes other than the prisms and antiprisms. These include the Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, and 92 extra shapes called Johnson solids.
Given two polyhedra of equal volume, one may ask whether it is then always possible to cut the first into polyhedral pieces which can be reassembled to yield the second polyhedron. This is a version of Hilbert's third problem; the answer is "no", as was shown by Dehn in 1902.
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This term is generally used to refer to military units that are part of the regular forces (not militia or reserve). For example, the US 101st Airborne Division is a regular unit, while the 1st US Army (Reserve) is not.It can also mean a regular browser of a forum or website, such this one.
Also, in topology, a regular space is one in which points are closed and any point can be separated from any closed set by open sets.
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An infinite cardinal number κ is called regular if cf(κ) = κ, where cf is the cofinality operation. This says that κ cannot be expressed as the union (supremum) of a collection of less than κ smaller cardinals. If we demand a regular cardinal be also a limit cardinal, we get an inaccessible cardinal.Cardinals which are not regular are called singular (the existence of singular cardinals requires the Axiom of replacement.)
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A regular language is a formal language (i.e. a possibly infinite set of finite sequences of symbols from a finite alphabet) that satisfies the following equivalent properties:All finite languages are regular. Other typical examples include the language consisting of all strings over the alphabet {a, b} which contain an even number of a's, or the language consisting of all strings of the form: several a's followed by several b's.
- it can be accepted by a deterministic finite state automaton.
- it can be accepted by a non-deterministic finite state automaton
- it can be described by a regular expression.
- it can be generated by a regular grammar
- it can be accepted by a read-only Turing machine
The result of the union, intersection and set-difference operations when applied to regular languages is itself a regular language; the complement of every regular language is a regular language as well. Reversing every string in a regular language yields another regular language. Concatenating two regular languages (in the sense of concatenating every string from the first language with every string from the second one) also yields a regular language. The shuffle operation, when applied to two regular languages, yields another regular language. The right quotient and the left quotient of a regular language by an arbitrary language is also regular.
To locate the regular languages in the Chomsky hierarchy, one notices that every regular language is context-free. The converse is not true: for example the language consisting of all strings having the same number of a's as b's is context-free but not regular. To prove that a language such as this is not regular, one uses the Myhill-Nerode Theorem or the pumping lemma.
There are two purely algebraic approaches to defining regular languages. If Σ is a finite alphabet and Σ* denotes the free monoid over Σ consisting of all strings over Σ, f : Σ* -> M is a monoid homomorphism where M is a finite monoid, and S is a subset of M, then the set f -1(S) is regular. Every regular language arises in this fashion.
If L is any subset of Σ*, one defines an equivalence relation ~ on Σ* as follows: u ~ v is defined to mean
The language L is regular if and only if the number of equivalence classes of ~ is finite; if this is the case, this number is equal to the number of states of the minimal deterministic finite automaton accepting L.
- uw in L if and only if vw in L for all w in Σ*
External resource
- Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario: Grail+, http://www.csd.uwo.ca/research/grail/. A software package to manipulate regular expressions, finite-state machines and finite languages. Free for non-commercial use.
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Regular semantics is a term which describes the guarantees provided by a data register shared by several processors in a parallel machine or in a network of computers working together.Atomic semantics are defined formally in Lamport's "On Interprocess Communication" Distributed Computing 1, 2 (1986), 77-101. (Also appeared as SRC Research Report 8).
Regular semantics are defined for a variable with a single writer but multiple readers. These semantics are stronger than safe semantics but weaker than atomic semantics: they guarantee that there is a total order to the write operations which is consistent with real-time and that read operations return either the value of the last completed write or that of one of the writes which are concurrent with the read.
see also: Atomic semantics and Safe semantics
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In topology and related fields of mathematics, regular spaces and T3 spaces are particularly nice kinds of topological spaces. Both conditions are examples of separation axioms.
Definitions
Suppose that X is a topological space.
X is a regular space iff, given any closed set F and any point x that does not belong to F, there are a neighbourhood U of x and a neighbourhood V of F that are disjoint. In fancier terms, this condition says that x and F can be separated by neighbourhoods.
X is a T3 space if and only if it is both regular and Hausdorff.
Note that some mathematical literature uses different definitions for the terms "regular" and "T3". The definitions that we have given here are the ones usually used today; however, some authors switch the meanings of the two terms, or use both terms synonymously for only one condition. In Wikipedia, we will use the term "regular" freely, but we'll usually say "regular Hausdorff" instead of the less clear "T3". In other literature, you should take care to find out which definitions the author is using. (The phrase "regular Hausdorff", however, is unambiguous.) For more on this issue, see History of the separation axioms.
Relationships to other separation axioms
A regular space is necessarily also preregular. Since a Hausdorff space is the same as a preregular T0 space, a regular space that is also T0 must be Hausdorff (and thus T3). In fact, a regular Hausdorff space satisfies the slightly stronger condition T2½. (However, such a space need not be completely Hausdorff.) Thus, the definition of T3 may cite T0, T1, or T2½ instead of T2 (Hausdorffness); all are equivalent in the context of regular spaces.
Speaking more theoretically, the conditions of regularity and T3-ness are related by Kolmogorov quotients. A space is regular iff its Kolmogorov quotient is T3; and, as mentioned, a space is T3 iff it's both regular and T0. Thus a regular space encountered in practice can usually be assumed to be T3, by replacing the space with its Kolmogorov quotient.
There are many results for topological spaces that hold for both regular and Hausdorff spaces. Most of the time, these results hold for all preregular spaces; they were listed for regular and Hausdorff spaces separately because the idea of preregular spaces came later. On the other hand, those results that are truly about regularity generally don't also apply to nonregular Hausdorff spaces.
There are many situations where another condition of topological spaces (such as normality, paracompactness, or local compactness) will imply regularity if some weaker separation axiom, such as preregularity, is satisfied. Such conditions often come in two versions: a regular version and a Hausdorff version. Although Hausdorff spaces aren't generally regular, a Hausdorff space that is also (say) locally compact will be regular, because any Hausdorff space is preregular. Thus from a certain point of view, regularity is not really the issue here, and we could impose a weaker condition instead to get the same result. However, definitions are usually still phrased in terms of regularity, since this condition is more well known than any weaker one.
Most topological spaces studied in mathematical analysis are regular; in fact, they are usually completely regular, which is a stronger condition. Regular spaces should also be contrasted with normal spaces.
Examples and nonexamples
As described above, any completely regular space is regular, and any T0 space that is not Hausdorff (and hence not preregular) cannot be regular. Most examples of regular and nonregular spaces studied in mathematics may be found in those two articles. On the other hand, spaces that are regular but not completely regular, or preregular but not regular, are usually constructed only to provide counterexamples to conjectures, showing the boundaries of possible theorems. Of course, one can easily find regular spaces that are not T0, and thus not Hausdorff, such as an indiscrete space, but these examples provide more insight on the T0 axiom than on regularity.
Thus, regular spaces are generally not studied because interesting spaces in mathematics are regular without also satisfying some stronger condition. Instead, they are studied to find properties and theorems, such as the ones below, that are actually applied to completely regular spaces, typically in analysis.
Elementary properties
Suppose that X is a regular space. Then, given any point x and neighbourhood G of x, there is a closed neighbourhood E of x that is a subset of G. In fancier terms, the closed neighbourhoods of x form a local base at x. In fact, this property characterises regular spaces; if the closed neighbourhoods of each point in a topological space form a local base at that point, then the space must be regular.
Taking the interiorss of these closed neighbourhoods, we see that the regular open sets form a base for the open sets of the regular space X. This property is actually weaker than regularity; a topological space whose regular open sets form a base is semiregular.
Extension by continuity
Suppose that A is a set in a topological space X and f is a continuous function from A to a regular space Y. Suppose that, whenever a net or filter in A convergess to a point in X (say x = limn an), then f(an) converges to a point y in Y. Then we would like to be able to extend the domain of definition of f to the closure of A, by letting f(x) = y, and we would like the extension to be continuous as well.
If Y is a regular space, then this is always possible. If Y is regular Hausdorff, then such a continuous extension will not only exist but will be unique. Note that if A is a dense set, then f will be extended to all of X. This is called extension by continuity, since the extension of f is defined (uniquely, in the Hausdorff case) by the requirement that it be continuous.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| reg. | English | Regular | Language |
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Synonyms: RegularSynonyms: even (adj), regular(a) (adj), steady (adj), unconstipated (adj), veritable(a) (adj), habitue (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: constipated (adj), irregular (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrangement | Adjective: arranged; Verb: embattled, in battle array; cut and dried; methodical, orderly, regular, systematic. |
Beauty | Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly. |
Clergy | Cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian; Gilbertine; Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme, Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite. |
Completeness | Regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free; abundant; (sufficient). |
Conformity | Be regular; Adjective: move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules,obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom,fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the crowd, pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track; (habit); keep one in countenance. |
Adjective: conformable to rule; regular; according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Gunter; en regle, selon les regles, well regulated, orderly; symmetric. | |
Frequency | Adjective: frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming, incessant, perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick; uniform; repeated; customary; (habit); regular (normal); according to rule; (conformable). |
Impulse | Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood. |
Order | Adverb: in order; methodically; Adjective: in -turn, - its turn; step by step; by regular -steps, -gradations, -stages, -intervals; seriatim, systematically, by clockwork, gradatim; at stated periods; (periodically). |
Adjective: orderly, regular; in order,in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused; (see confuse; ); arranged. | |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Verb: recur in regular order, recur in regular succession; return, revolve; come again, come in its turn; come round, come round again; beat, pulsate; alternate; intermit. |
Egular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork. | |
Adverb: periodically; Adjective: at regular intervals, at stated times; at fixed established, at established periods; punctually; Adjective: de die in diem; from day to day, day by day. | |
Symmetry | Regular, uniform, balanced; equal; parallel, coextensive. |
Uniformity | Adjective: uniform; homogeneous, homologous;of a piece, consistent, connatural; monotonous, even, invariable; regular, unchanged, undeviating, unvaried, unvarying. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Regular |
| English words defined with "regular": on a regular basis ♦ regular convex polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular dodecahedron, regular icosahedron, regular payment, regular polyhedron, regular recurrence, regular tetrahedron. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "regular": Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods, Regular ♦ regular graph, regular sampling, regular state, regular twist. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "regular": Weave. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Regular" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Papiamen (even, regular), Portuguese (adjust, bring into position, canonic, canonical, clean-cut, condition, correct, even, formal, locate, locate from a mark, methodical, move into position, normal, order, position, post, register, register against a mark, regular, regulate, reposition, reset, sequential, set, smooth, steady, systematic, systematical, tolerable, unexceptional, uniform), Portuguese Brazilian (regular), Spanish (formal, indifferent, medium, middling, moderate, normal, regular, regulate, so so, time, tolerable). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Don't you have any regular friends (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) Walking around like regular people (The Sixth Sense; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) Just a regular boyfriend, one that doesn't go nuts on me (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus) Yeah, you're hilarious, Richard, you're just a regular riot (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Just look at the way they sucker regular folk with their crooked games (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | Cause You Send Me On A Regular (Rock the Boat; performing artist: Aaliyah) The regular crowd shuffles in ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel) I ain't no G, I'm just a regular failure (Cowboy; performing artist: KID ROCK) Becomes a regular occurrence (ANOTHER NIGHT IN TUNISIA; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer) Now on the regular (Sweet Lady; performing artist: Tyrese) | |
Clever | On a bar of Dial soap: "Directions: Use like regular soap. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ejército Regular (1937) A Regular Trouper (1932) He Became a Regular Fellow (1916) The Fable of the Regular Beanery and the Preachy Newcomer (1914) Regular Joe (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (3) color slides of a cup of coffee and saucer. (2) regular, black coffee, (1) coffee with cream. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | (4) color slides show a single hamburger on a bun. (3) regular hamburgers, (1) cheeseburger. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | Brownie begging for food from NOAA hydrographic launch at Wide Bay Brownie was a regular visitor for lunch. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Secchi disc readings were used to determine turbidity at the reef site on a regular basis. The rope was marked at five foot intervals to determine at what distance the disc could no longer be seen on a horizontal axis. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Regular meeting of the Marshall County Soil Conservation District in central Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | When regular eyeglasses don't help, other things might. |
 | Join the fight against aids Maintain regular sex partner. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Professional oral hygiene care at regular intervals is important ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Farkas.. |
 | Photographed on 5 February 1957 by the San Francisco Naval Shipyard after a regular overhaul. The ship lost her 5"/38 main battery but retained most of her smaller guns. Credit: NAVY. |  | Underway during 1943-45. She is armed with two twin .50 caliber machineguns, four Mark XIII torpedoes and a single 20mm gun. This boat, the Higgins "Hellcat", was smaller, lighter and faster than regular Higgins and Elco PTs. Though PT-564 ran extensive trials, the design was not selected for production. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Pepper" by Gary Leung Commentary: "This picture is shot with an old Pentax camera on regular 35mm film." | "Dark plant" by Henrik Westman Commentary: "A regular plant." |
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 | A regular heart beat. |
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh | By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. |
Augustine | Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. |
Francis Bacon | Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. |
Thomas Jefferson | We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Nevertheless, German vessels shall not be entitled to carry passengers or goods by regular services between the ports of any Allied or Associated Power, without special authority from such Power. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I think, Miss Woodhouse, you and I must establish a musical club, and have regular weekly meetings at your house, or ours |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | In a very short time, things settled down into a regular routine |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The same step, slow and regular, was coming and going constantly over his head |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But when he heard my voice, and found what I delivered to be regular and rational, he could not conceal his astonishment |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling that I do the rising of the sun, which is hardly more regular. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Get regular checkups. (references) | |
They may become less regular. (references) | ||
With regular heroin use, tolerance develops. (references) | ||
Business | They purchase these products on a regular basis. (references) | |
Franchising companies operate under regular trade legislation. (references) | ||
This can be the regular documentation used to bill any customer. (references) | ||
Children | Taiwan | Previously regular courts handled such cases. (references) |
Indonesia | Of the government schools, 165 are "integrated," serving both regular and special education students. (references) | |
Marshall Islands | It is estimated that up to 20 percent of elementary school age children do not attend school on a regular basis. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nauru | The country has no regular print media. (references) |
Afghanistan | There were fewer than 10 regular publications in the country. (references) | |
France | Regular demonstrations on various issues occur without incident. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | However, only ten of them service regular flights. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | Directors' meetings are required on a regular basis. (references) | |
Mali | The Assembly meets for two regular sessions each year. (references) | |
Human Rights | Djibouti | Civil actions may be brought in regular or traditional courts. (references) |
Mozambique | Most prisoners received only one meal per day on a regular basis. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | Detainees generally are not allowed prompt or regular access to their lawyers. (references) | |
Minorities | Macedonia | Ethnic tensions and prejudices were a regular feature of society. (references) |
Slovak Republic | In 1999 the Slovak Government and the Government of Hungary jointly established a commission to deal with the treatment of ethnic minorities; the commission meets on a regular basis and was active in negotiating the European Charter on Minority Languages. (references) | |
Political Economy | Singapore | Elections take place at regular, constitutionally mandated intervals. (references) |
Political Rights | India | State governments are elected at regular intervals except in states under President's Rule. (references) |
Panama | Locally, tribal chiefs govern each reserve; they meet in a general congress at regular intervals. (references) | |
Jordan | The King proposes and dismisses extraordinary sessions of Parliament and may postpone regular sessions for up to 60 days. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | Regular mail should be used. (references) |
Qatar | However, regular customs duties apply to any part of such goods sold within Qatar. (references) | |
Venezuela | Venezuelan customs brokers typically charge one percent of the CIF value, or less on regular orders. (references) | |
Travel | Nigeria | Regular use of malaria suppressants is strongly recommended. (references) |
Taiwan | Kaohsiung airport also offers regular flights to major destinations in the region. (references) | |
Qatar | Internal calls, however, are free of charge if conducted through regular telephones. (references) | |
Women | Djibouti | The few women who are educated increasingly turn to the regular courts to defend their interests. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | In 1995 the Ministry of Commerce announced that women would no longer be issued business licenses for work in fields that might require them to supervise foreign workers, interact with male clients, or deal on a regular basis with government officials. (references) | |
Iraq | It has enacted laws to protect women from exploitation in the workplace and from sexual harassment; to permit women to join the regular army, Popular Army, and police forces; and to equalize women's rights in divorce, land ownership, taxation, and suffrage. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Oman | As required by law, they make regular onsite inspections. (references) |
Armenia | Labor disputes are arbitrated in regular or economic courts. (references) | |
Fiji | The inspectors are mandated to conduct regular annual inspections. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or by nature. This latter is commonly designated as folk-lore and embraces popularly myths and superstitions. In Baring-Gould's Curious Myths of the Middle Ages the reader will find many of these traced backward, through various people son converging lines, toward a common origin in remote antiquity. Among these are the fables of "Teddy the Giant Killer," "The Sleeping John Sharp Williams," "Little Red Riding Hood and the Sugar Trust," "Beauty and the Brisbane," "The Seven Aldermen of Ephesus," "Rip Van Fairbanks," and so forth. The fable with Goethe so affectingly relates under the title of "The Erl- King" was known two thousand years ago in Greece as "The Demos and the Infant Industry." One of the most general and ancient of these myths is that Arabian tale of "Ali Baba and the Forty Rockefellers." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Don Hewitt | I'd like to do more of the same better. I'd like to add Bob Simon as a regular. I'd like to add Christiane Amanpour as a regular, which means take her away from here. |
Julianne Moore | I do lead a very pedestrian life, I have to tell you. It's pretty regular, you know, and mostly my children are very little so that means I'm rarely out of the house. It's true. It's true. |
Samantha Geimer | Oh, right, we took pictures all day. He took many, many pictures of all different rooms, different outfits, inside, outside. It was like a regular photo shoot. |
Sarah Ferguson | If they're regular human beings, they're going to talk about regular human being things. And I would say the news is a regular thing to discuss. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | This, therefore, ought to be a serious care of every government, and for this purpose an academy where a regular course of instruction is given is an obvious expedient which different nations have successfully employed. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | With the Romans, the regular method of taking the evidence of their slaves was under torture. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The deficiency has been necessarily supplied during the campaign by other than regular troops, with all the inconveniences and expense incident to them. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Much difficulty is found in distributing the arms according to the act of Congress providing for it from the failure of the proper departments in many of the States to make regular returns. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Neither our situation nor our institutions require or permit the maintenance of a large regular force. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We can keep one million students learning beyond regular school hours, when parents work and juvenile crime soars. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Regular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.50% of the time. "Regular" is used about 7,591 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.5% | 7,553 | 1,278 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.46% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,591 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "regular": a regular guy ♦ a regular scoundrel ♦ a regular screw ♦ as regular as clockwork ♦ at regular intervals ♦ be regular ♦ be regular in one's habits ♦ he is a regular idiot ♦ keep regular hours ♦ new or regular conjugation ♦ on a regular basis ♦ Pork Regular Iletin II ♦ regular aerodrome ♦ regular army ♦ regular as clockwork ♦ regular audiometric examination ♦ regular best asymptotically normal estimator ♦ regular budget ♦ regular canon ♦ regular canoness ♦ regular canons of St Austin ♦ regular clergy ♦ regular conjugation ♦ regular convex polyhedron ♦ regular convex solid ♦ regular customer ♦ regular customers ♦ regular doctor ♦ regular dodecahedron ♦ regular expression ♦ regular force ♦ regular gas ♦ regular grade gasoline ♦ regular grade petrol ♦ regular graph ♦ regular group divisible incomplete block deign ♦ regular guy ♦ regular hexagon ♦ regular hexahedron ♦ regular icosahedron ♦ Regular Iletin I ♦ regular in one's attendance to a church ♦ regular indent ♦ regular job ♦ regular normal ♦ regular octagon ♦ regular octahedron ♦ regular payment ♦ regular pentagon ♦ regular people ♦ regular petrol ♦ regular polygon ♦ regular polyhedron ♦ regular price ♦ regular pulse ♦ regular rate ♦ regular reader ♦ regular recurrence ♦ regular sales ♦ regular segmentation ♦ regular slave ♦ regular slotted hexagon nut ♦ regular slotted nut ♦ regular solid ♦ regular state ♦ regular station ♦ Regular Strength Bayer Enteric 500 Aspirin [OTC] ♦ regular tetragon ♦ regular tetrahedron ♦ regular train ♦ regular transition ♦ regular troops ♦ regular twist ♦ regular user ♦ regular verb ♦ she is a regular magpie ♦ the regular rate ♦ the regular staff. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "regular": regular-as-clockwork, regular-footer, regular-interval, regular-reserve, regular-sized, regular-strength. | |
Ending with "regular": all-regular, semi-regular. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "regular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | reëlmatig (even, regularly). (various references) | |
Albanian | zyrtar (administrative, ceremonial, ceremonious, donnish, formal, functionary, magistrate, official, officialese, officinal), sistematik (methodical, systematic, systematical), profesional (occupational, professional, vocational), normal (natural, normal, ordinary, par, sane, standard), i zakonshëm (accustomed, common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, everyday, familiar, general, habitual, homely, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, ready made, routine, second best, standard, usual, vulgar, wonted, workaday), i vazhdueshëm (ceaseless, chronic, constant, continual, continued, continuous, endless, frequent, incessant, lingering, niggling, non-stop, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, running, steady, unbroken, uninterrupted), i rregullt (above board, correct, done, even, formal, frequent, habitual, honest, just, licit, measured, neat, normal, on the level, orderly, right, steady, systematic, systematical, tidy, trig, trim), i radhës, i kualifikuar (accomplished, professional, skilled), i drejtë (candid, correct, direct, disinterested, downright, equitable, erect, even, fair, impartial, just, kosher, lank, right, Square, stand up, straight, straightaway, true, upright, upstanding, virtuous, white), formal (formal, nominal, official). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرتب (earning, in order, orderly, salary, stipend, trim, well arranged, well ordered), رهباني (monastic, monkish), إعتيادي (habitual, ordinary, usual), جندي نظامي, صحيح (accurate, alright, aright, be in the right, consonantal, correct, entire, exact, faithful, hale, honest, indeed, ortho, plumb, precise, proper, pure, real, reasonable, right, seemly, sincere, true, unbroken, valid, veracious, veritable, whole), عضو سديد الإخلاص لحزبه, سوي (normal, right, smooth, square, straight), تام (blank, complete, crass, entire, every, flat, gone, implicit, integral, outright, perfect, perfected, performed, plenary, pure, rank, round, sound, thorough, thoroughgoing, unconditional, unequivocal, unqualified, utter, whole), دائم (abiding, biennial, ceaseless, constant, everlasting, frequent, lasting, lingering, permanent, perpetual, quinquennial, standing, substantive, unfailing), نظامي (businesslike, constant, disciplinarian, methodical, regulation, systematic), منتظم (constant, even, orderly, steady, uniform), مألوف (accustomed, beaten, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, homely, household, ordinary, orthodox, popular, usual, vulgar), مطرد (constant, equable, uniform, unremitting), مستقر (constant, enduring, firm, normal, settled, stabilized, stable, steady), مترهب, متسق (consistent, harmonious, proportionate), متناسق (consistent, coordinated, harmonic, methodical, symmetric, symmetrical, systematic), محترف (professional), منظم (arranger, disposed, governor, in good order, marshaled, neat, orderly, organized, organizer, steward, systematic, tidy, well arranged, well ordered, well-organized), قياسي (normal, standard, typical). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цял (cool, entire, full, good, intact, integral, integrate, livelong, overall, perfect, right, round, sheer, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabridged, unbroken, undivided, whole), постоянен (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, firm, fixed, frequent, hourly, immovable, invariable, lasting, minutely, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, secular, settled, stable, standing, static, steadfast, steady, stock, substantive, sustained, unalterable, undeviating, unfailing, unidirectional, uniform, uninterrupted, unvaried), приет (done, legitimate, proper, received, standing), правилен (accurate, correct, good, just, normal, okay, proper, right, straight, true), монашески (cloistral, monastic, monkish, religious), на постоянна служба, не на шега (for real, regularly), нормален (average, normal, ordinary, right, sane, sound, straight), обикновен (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, homely, humdrum, low, matter of fact, mere, moderate, mundane, ordinary, plain, quiet, routine, run of the mill, simple, trite, trivial, unaffected, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, wonted), обикновен размер на облекло, обичаен (accustomed, common, consuetudinary, customary, familiar, general, habitual, ordinary, stock, usual, wonted), офицер от редовната армия, верен привърженик, истински (actual, authentic, authentically, bona fide, factual, for real, genuine, genuinely, good, honest, mere, natural, par excellence, positive, precious, proper, pucka, pukka, pure, real, regularly, right, right-down, sheer, simon-pure, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, true, true blue, true born, truly, truthful, unadulterated, unfeigned, veridical, veritable, very, virtual), квалифициран (accomplished, fit, fledged, graduate, skilled, trained), същински (arrant, positive, proper, pure, rank, real, sheer, simple, veritable, very), член на монашески орден, често (constantly, frequently, hourly, minutely, oft, often, oftentimes, repeatedly), чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, corking, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, famous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, great, heavenly, hot, immense, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, neat, nifty, noble, priceless, rattling, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, spanking, splendid, super, terrific, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard, wonderful), щатен работник, редовен (full time, goer, lax, licensed, normal, ordinary, routine, stated), редовен посетител (habitue, haunter, patron), редовен войник, редовен клиент (client, patron), редовно (regularly), симпатичен (amiable, cute, nice, nice-looking, prepossessing, sympathetic), симетричен (spheral, symmetric, symmetrical), стопроцентов (out and out, positive), среден размер на облекло, коректен (correct, precise, scrupulous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 通常 (normal, ordinary, usual), 规则 (rule), 端正 (correct, proper, upright), 端 (end, extremity, item, port, to carry, to hold sth. level with both hands), 正常 (normal, ordinary), 固定 (fixed, set). (various references) | |
Croatian | obiène. (various references) | |
Czech | regulérní (correct), stejnomìrný (constant, even, uniform), stálý (constant, durable, enduring, equable, eternal, fast, firm, indissoluble, invariable, perennial, permanent, protracted, sessile, stable, standing, static, stationary, steady, unchangeable), správný (correct, good, grammatical, just, precise, proper, right, sporting), pravidelný (normal, orderly, periodic, periodical, routine, smooth, steady), pořádný (good, lumping, lusty, massive, real, respectable, sound), obvyklý (common, consuetudinary, customary, habitual, in use, normal, ordinary, routine, standard, unexceptional, usual, wonted), hotový (accomplished, complete, done, finished, oft-shelf, prepared, ready, ready made, veritable), řeholní, řadový (ordinal, serial), řádový knìz, řádný (decent, good, proper), aktivní (active, bustling). (various references) | |
Danish | regelmæssig (even). (various references) | |
Dutch | regelmatig (even, regularly, symmetric), geregeld (even, regularly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | regula (even). (various references) | |
Farsi | منظم (Ordered, Orderly, Square), مقرر (Standard, Statutory), معین (Accessory, Adjutant, Ally, Ancillary, Auxiliary, Definite, Given, Positive, Precise, Punctual, Specific, Standard, Subsidiary), مرتب (Intrinsic, Kilter, Methodic, Neat, Ordered, Orderly, Prissy, Shipshape, Straight, Tidy, Trim), عادی (Common, Customary, Habitual, Naked, Normal, Ordinary, Ornery, Rife, Uncritical, Usual), باقاعده . (various references) | |
Finnish | vakinainen (ordinary, permanent, standing), tasakokoinen (uniform), sotilas (pawn, soldier), säntillinen (exact, precise, punctual), säännönmukainen (due, normal), säännöllinen (orderly), määräaikainen (held at stated intervals), kanta-asiakas (regular user). (various references) | |
French | régulier. (various references) | |
German | regelmäßig (even, formal, frequent, orderly, periodic, periodical, periodically, regularly, well ordered), regulär (across the counter, basic, proper, regularly), gleichmäßig (constant, continuously, equable, equably, equally, even, evenly, permanent, regularly, rhythmic, rhythmical, smooth, steadily, steady, symmetric, symmetrical, uniform, uniformly), Berufssoldat (lifer, professional soldier). (various references) | |
Greek | κανονικόσ (canonical, normal, orderly, standard), συμμετρικόσ (shapely, symmetric, symmetrical), μόνιμοσ (abiding, permanent, resident, stable, standing), ανελλιπήσ, τακτικόσ (orderly, ordinal, steady, tactical), τακτικός, ομαλόσ (even, normal, plain), ομαλός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משוכלל (elaborate, perfect), מצוי (available, common, current, draining, exhaustion, extraction, frequent, ordinary, squeezing, usual), תקין (normal, orderly, proper, standard), תדיר (constant, frequent), קבוע (constant, fitted, fixation, fixed, fixing, fixture, habitual, permanent, set, settled, stable, standing, stated, stationary, steady, uniform), סדיר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szokásos (accustomed, customary, habitual, ordinary, ruling, run, usual, wonted), szabályos (even, normal, orderly, regulation, severe, smooth, to spal). (various references) | |
Indonesian | langganan (client, customer, subscription), biasa (accustomed, adjusted, banal, conversant, habitual, lay, ordinary, trivial, usual). (various references) | |
Italian | regolare (act, adjust, arm, bogey, cash up, control, control oneself, direct, even, formal, guide, level, modulate, normal, point, proper, regularize, regulate, rule, rules, set, settle, smooth, Square, standard, steady, systematic, systematical, trim, tune). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 規則的 (routine, systematic), 規則的 (routine, systematic), 規則正しい (systematic), 規則正い (well-regulated), レーニン主義 (beggar, homeless, label, labor union, lane, layer, layered cut, layered look, layman, layoff, layout, layout-system, lecture, leg guards, leggings, Leghorn, lei, Leninism, leopon, leotard, lexicon, philosophy of life, racialism, racism, rail, rain, rainbow fish, raincoat, rainy, raise, range, ranger, rape, rapier, rare, rare metal, ray, Ray-Ban, rayonne, ray-tracing, record, recorder, recording, recreation, regatta, reggae, regular chain store, regular member, regulation, Regulus, requiem), 本格的 (earnest, full-dress, fundamental, genuine, normal, real, typical), 整然 (accurate, orderly, trim, well-organized), 日常 (everyday, ordinary, usual), 日常 (everyday, ordinary, usual), 正規 (established, formal, legal, legitimate), 正則 (correct, formal, normal, proper, systematic), 正 (true), 定常 (stationary), 常任 (permanent, standing), 合式 (categorical, formal, valid). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | レギュラー , きそくただしい (systematic, well-regulated), きそくてき (routine, systematic), ほんかくてき (earnest, full-dress, fundamental, genuine, normal, real, typical), にちじょう (everyday, ordinary, usual), せいぜん (accurate, aiming at the eye, during one's lifetime, oath, orderly, petition, trim, well-organized, west bank, west coast, westward advance, while alive), せいそく (correct, formal, inhabiting, inhabitting, living, normal, proper, systematic), せいき (animation, century, Christian era, consciousness, era, essence, established, formal, genital, happen, legal, legitimate, life, life energy, occurrence, prosperous period, sanity, soberness, spirit, take place, true character, true heart, true spirit, verve, vigor, vitality), せい (cause, companion, control, energy, establishment, family name, fault, gender, government, height, holding back, imperial command, laws, -made, make, military strength, organization, reason, regulation, restraint, sex, spirit, stature, suppression, surname, system, threaten, true), ごうしき (categorical, formal, valid), じょうにん (lover, mistress, permanent, standing, sweetheart), ていじょう (presentation, stationary). (various references) | |
Korean | 일정한 (Constant). (various references) | |
Manx | sidoor kianglt, reiltagh (according to rule, decisive, director, ordinal, president, rector, ruler, ruling), kinjagh (ballast, ballast of person, constant, continual, continuous, definite, incessant, invariable, persistent, steady, unceasing, unfailing), fer kinjagh, feer (authentic, correct, exceptionally, extremely, pure, real, sheer, sincere, true, truthful, veritable, very). (various references) | |
Papiamen | regular (even). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egularray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | regular (canonic, canonical, clean-cut, condition, correct, even, formal, methodical, normal, order, post, regulate, sequential, set, smooth, steady, systematic, systematical, tolerable, unexceptional, uniform). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | regular. (various references) | |
Romanian | regulat (equable, even, harmonious, legitimate, normal, orderly, ordinary, regularly, rhythmic, rhythmical, smooth, staple, steady), reglementar (normal, regulation, statutory), veritabil (authentic, genuine, real, right, sheer, staunch, sterling, true, unadulterated, veritable), trupe regulate, salariat (employee, paid, remunerated, salaried, stipendiary, wage earner), precis (accurate, accurately, certain, clean-cut, clockwork, dead, decided, decisive, definite, definitely, distinct, due, even, exact, exactly, flat, just, literal, narrow, positive, precise, sharp, sound, specifically, straight, strict, truly, unambiguous), ordinar (boorish, caddish, coarse, common, commonplace, customary, frequent, gross, homespun, improper, ordinary, rough, slavish, trivial, unrefined, usual, vulgar), obişnuit (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, customarily, customary, frequent, frequently, habitual, habitually, habitue, normal, ordinary, rife, routine, standard, used to, usual, usually, wonted, workaday), normal (legitimate, natural, normal, ordinariness, ordinary, rated, sane, standard), militar de carierã, exact (accurate, accurately, by the square, careful, clean-cut, clipping, clockwork, correct, dead, directly, due, even, exact, exactly, faithful, fitting, flat, for all the world, formal, just, just so, narrow, perfect, precise, precisely, proper, punctual, punctually, right, rigorous, scholarly, sharp, slick, straight, strict, strictly, that's the idea, to a day, to a hair's breadth, true, truly, you've hit it), egal (coequal, commensurate, coordinate, equal, equally, even, even tempered, evenly, fellow, identic, identical, level, match, peer, proportionate, smooth, Square, unchangeable, uniform), adevãrat (actual, correct, forsooth, genuine, honestly, in truth, indeed, positive, positively, proper, quite right, real, really and truly, sheer, sooth, Square, stark, true, truthful, veraciously, veritable, very), activ (acting, active, actively, afoot, aggressive, agile, alive, assets, bouncing, brisk, busy, dapper, diligent, dynamic, efficient, energetic, fierce, go ahead, industrious, living, operative, pragmatic, quick, spry). (various references) | |
Russian | регулярный (metronomic, orderly). (various references) | |
Scottish | snasda (neat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | regularan, redovnik, redovan (ordinary, organic, usual), vojnik stalnog sastava, stalna mušterija, stalan (abiding, constant, continual, continuous, on-going, perm, permanent, stabile, steady), prvotimac, prvog tima, pravilan (correct, legal, right), normalan (normal, perpendicular, standard), dobar (benign, fine, good, kind, wholesome), akuratan (exact). (various references) | |
Spanish | regular (formal, indifferent, medium, middling, moderate, normal, regulate, so so, time, tolerable), uniforme (dead level, even, level, regimentals, true, undress, uniform, uniformed, unitary). (various references) | |
Swedish | vanlig (accustomed, common, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, ordinary, ornery, plain, straight, unexceptional, used to, usual, wonted), ordentlig (careful, glorious, good, neat, orderly, proper, Square, tidy). (various references) | |
Turkish | kurallı (grammatical, in accordance with rules, orderly, technical), düzenli (clean-cut, coordinate, dainty, equal, even, harmonious, in good trim, in order, methodical, neat, ordered, orderly, organized, right, settled, snug, stated, steady, systematic, systematical, tidy), düzgün (clear-cut, Dandy, dandyish, fluent, formal, in good trim, ordered, right, shapely, shipshape, slick, smooth, Spruce, Square, straight, trim, unruffled), değişmez (changeless, constant, entrenched, equable, fast, fixed, flat-footed, frozen, hard and fast, immutable, inalterable, invariable, Pat, permanent, rigid, set, settled, stable, static, steadfast, steady, unalterable, unchangeable, unchanging, unswerving, unvarying, unwavering), devamlı (assiduous, away, chronic, continual, continued, continuous, everlasting, evermore, forever, frequent, hourly, in ordinary, incessant, invariable, invariably, lasting, non-stop, on end, permanent, persistent, regularly, settled, steady, sustained, unabating, unbroken, unceasing, unremitting), devamlı müşteri (frequenter, goer, habitue, patronizer), güvenilir (above suspicion, authentic, bankable, calculable, certain, confidential, credible, creditable, dependable, gilt-edged, reliable, responsible, right hand, secure, solid, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, straight, sure, tried, trustworthy, trusty, unfailing, unsuspicious, worthy of credit), gedikli (breached, habitual, habitue, notched, old stager, Stager), her zamanki (usual), inişleri ve çıkışları olmayan, dürüst (above board, candid, christian, conscientious, dinkum, direct, downright, fair, faithful, Frank, guileless, honest, incorruptible, jannock, just, level, moral, on the square, open, plain, right, righteous, right-minded, sincere, single minded, single-hearted, sporting, Square, straight, straight as a die, straight out, straightforward, upfront, upright, upstanding, virtuous), keşiş (friar, hermit, monastic, monk, priest, recluse, shaveling), uzman (adept, authority, connoisseur, dab, dabster, Don, expert, fiend, judge, oracle, professional, proficient, specialist, technician), müdavim (denizen, frequenter, goer, habitue, patron), mazbut, meslekten (by trade), meslekten olan asker, muntazam (formal, in good order, neat), muvazzaf asker, normal (normal, normative, ordinary), olağan (common, commonplace, everyday, mediocre, mundane, ordinary, run-off-the-mill, usual), partisine bağlı üye, sıradan (average, banal, blah, casual, casually, common, common or garden, commonplace, copybook, cut and dried, exoteric, hack, hackneyed, mediocre, nondescript, ordinary, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-off-the-mill, small, straight, unexceptional, workaday), kadrolu. (various references) | |
Turkmen | regulяar (r), kadaly (normal). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | регулярні війська, регулярно (regularly), регулярний (booked, orderly, ordinate), чернець (benedictine, brother, coenobite, conventual, friar, monastic, obedientiary, religious), надзвичайно (almighty, amain, anxiously, as anything, awfully, deadly, densely, dreadfully, eminently, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, grossly, highly, hugely, in great measure, in the extreme, jolly, mighty, most, passing, remarkably, ripping, sevenfold, severely, to the utmost, very much, woundily), звичний (accustomed, chronic, consuetudinary, customary, habitual, normal, old, ordinary, used to, wonted), правильно (accurately, alright, aright, correctly, duly, normally, o.k., ok, okay, okey, properly, regularly, right, right on, rightly, straight, that's right), правильний (accurate, correct, normal, orderly, proper, pure, right, straight, true, truthful, unerring, well formed), постійний (abiding, blue, certain, changeless, chronic, constant, continual, frequent, hourly, immanent, never failing, perdurable, permanent, sedentary, settled, standing, stationary, steady, uniform). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tu đạo, thật sự (actual, effective, serious, strict), thật (actual, genuine, really, sterling, substantial, true, truly), nhân viên trong biên chế chính thức, không thay đổi; thường lệ cân đối, hoàn toàn (all, all right, all-in-all, altogether, backbone, clean, completely, consummate, due, full, fully, heartily, hilt, hollow, inch, out-and-out, outright, perfectly, profound, purely, quite, sheer, stark, thorough, thoroughly, undivided, utter, utterly, wholly), đúng mực (decorous, proper, well-balanced), đều đều (even, monotonous, regularly, same, singsong, undiversified), đều (uniform). (various references) | |
Welsh | rheolaidd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | u-a-gi-na. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adsidua, adsidue, adsiduus, certa, certe, certi, certo, certum, conposita, conpositae, conpositam, conpositis, conposito, conpositum, conpositus, cotidiano, cotidianum, iusta, iustae, iustam, iustaque, iustas, iusti, iustior, iustiorem, iustis, iusto, iustorum, iustos, iustum, iustus, normalis, ordinarius, regula. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | regularis. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | regollic. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 26, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | ProginwskonteV me anwqen ean qelwsin marturein oti kata thn akribestathn airesin thV hmeteraV qrhskeiaV ezhsa farisaioV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Praescientes me ab initio si velint testimonium perhibere quoniam secundum certissimam sectam nostrae religionis vixi Pharisaeus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | If thei wolen bere witnessing, that bi the moost certeyn sect of oure religioun, Y lyuede a Farisee. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Which knew me from ye beginnynge yf they wolde testifie it. For after the most straytest secte of oure laye lyved I a pharisaye. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Who knew me from the beginning, (if they would testify) that after the strictest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 26, Verse 5 |
| Albanian | Ata më njohin qysh atëherë dhe mund të dëshmojnë, po deshën, se kam jetuar si farise, sipas sektit më të drejtë të fesë sonë. |
| Cebuano | Ila nang nahibaloan sulod sa hataas nga panahon, kon ikahimuot pa lang unta nila ang pagtug-an niini, nga sumala sa labing istrikto nga pundok sa atong tinoohan, ako nagkinabuhi nga usa ka Fariseo. |
| Croatian | Poznaju me odavna te mogu, ako samo hoæe, svjedoèiti da sam po najstrožoj sljedbi naše vjere živio kao farizej. |
| Finnish | He tuntevat minut jo entuudestaan, jos tahtovat sen todistaa, että minä meidän uskontomme ankarimman lahkon mukaan olen elänyt fariseuksena. |
| French | Ils savent depuis longtemps, s`ils veulent le déclarer, que j`ai vécu pharisien, selon la secte la plus rigide de notre religion. |
| German | die mich von Anbeginn gekannt haben, wenn sie es wollten bezeugen. Denn ich bin ein Pharisäer gewesen, welches ist die strengste Sekte unseres Gottesdienstes. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo konnen m' depi lontan. Epi, si yo vle, yo ka rann temwayaj mwen t'ap viv tankou yon farizyen. Farizyen yo se moun ki pi rèd nan relijyon nou an. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sudah lama mereka tahu tentang saya. Dan kalau mereka mau, mereka dapat memberi kesaksian bahwa sejak semula saya sudah hidup sebagai orang Farisi dengan menuruti segala peraturannya yang paling ketat di dalam agama kami. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | karena mereka itu kenal patik dari awal, dan jikalau mau, dapatlah mereka itu menyaksikan, bahwa patik sudah hidup seperti seorang Parisi menurut mazhab yang terlebih taat di dalam ibadat patik sekalian. |
| Maori | Mohio tonu ratou ki ahau o mua iho, me i pai ratou ki te whakaatu; ko taku mahi, i whai i ta te titorehanga pakeke rawa o to tatou karakia, i ta te Parihi. |
| Norwegian | da de forut vet om mig, like fra først av, om de bare vil komme frem med sitt vidnesbyrd, at jeg levde efter det strengeste parti av vår gudsdyrkelse, som fariseer. |
| Portuguese | pois me conhecem desde o princípio e, se quiserem, podem dar testemunho de que, conforme a mais severa seita da nossa religião, vivi fariseu. |
| Rumanian | Dacq vor sq mqrturiseascq, ei wtiu dela knceput cq am trqit, ca Fariseu, dupq cea mai kngustq partidq a religiunii noastre. |
| Russian | ПОЙ ЙЪДБЧОБ ЪОБАФ ПВП НОЕ, ЕУМЙ ЪБИПФСФ УЧЙДЕФЕМШУФЧПЧБФШ, ЮФП С ЦЙМ ЖБТЙУЕЕН РП УФТПЦБКЫЕНХ Ч ОБЫЕН ЧЕТПЙУРПЧЕДБОЙЙ ХЮЕОЙА. |
| Shuar | Pariséu ajasan, ni akupeamurin itiurchat ain Ashí takamtsuk tuke umirniuitjai. Nunasha nékainiawai tura wakeruiniakka etserkamnia aintui. |
| Swahili | Wananifahamu kwa muda mrefu, na wanaweza kushuhudia, kama wakipenda, kwamba tangu mwanzo niliishi kama mmoja wa kikundi chenye siasa kali zaidi katika dini yetu, yaani kikundi cha Mafarisayo. |
| Uma | Mahae moto-mile ra'inca gau' -kue. Ane dota-ra, hira' moto ma'ala mpotutura dala ngkatuwu' -ku ngkai lomo' -na, ka'aku' -na tohe'i mpotuku' tudui' to Parisi, to mantata' mpu'u petuku' -ra hi hawe'ea ada agama Yahudi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "regular": regularities, regularity, regularization, regularizations, regularize, regularized, regularizes, regularizing, regularly, regulars. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "regular": irregular, stereoregular. (additional references) | |
Words containing "regular": irregularities, irregularity, irregularly, irregulars, stereoregularities, stereoregularity. (additional references) | |
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"Regular" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arugula, frenular, Gerulot, Peugelaar, Ragurag, reculer, regalar, regear, Reglar, reglue, reglued, reguard, regul, regula, regulae, regulare, regulary, Regularz, regulat, reguli, regulkar, regulo, rivulare, rotular, Tregalan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "regular" (pronounced re"gyuler or rā"gyuler) |
| 7 | r e" g y u l er | irregular. |
| 5 | -g y u l er | angular, equiangular, jugular, rectangular, singular, triangular. |
| 4 | -y u l er | annular, avuncular, binocular, cardiovascular, cellular, circular, curricular, extracurricular, gastrovascular, globular, granular, intercellular, intermolecular, jocular, molecular, muscular, particular, perpendicular, popular, secular, semicircular, spectacular, testicular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular, unspectacular, vascular, vehicular, vernacular. |
| 3 | -u l er | embezzler, enabler, abler, alveolar, bachelor, Buckler, Candler, chancellor, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, dangler, dissimilar, fiddler, Girdler, glandular, gobbler, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, jeweler, juggler, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, needler, nestler, nodular, peninsular, rattler, reveler, saddler, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, wrangler, wrestler. |
| 5 | -g y u l er | angular, equiangular, irregular, jugular, rectangular, singular, triangular. |
| 4 | -y u l er | annular, avuncular, binocular, cardiovascular, cellular, circular, curricular, extracurricular, gastrovascular, globular, granular, intercellular, intermolecular, jocular, molecular, muscular, particular, perpendicular, popular, secular, semicircular, spectacular, testicular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular, unspectacular, vascular, vehicular, vernacular. |
| 3 | -u l er | embezzler, enabler, abler, alveolar, bachelor, Buckler, Candler, chancellor, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, dangler, dissimilar, fiddler, Girdler, glandular, gobbler, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, jeweler, juggler, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, needler, nestler, nodular, peninsular, rattler, reveler, saddler, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, wrangler, wrestler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: arguer, larger. | |
-2 letters: argle, argue, auger, glare, gluer, gruel, gular, lager, large, luger, lurer, regal, rugae, rugal, ruler, rural, urare, ureal, urger. | |
-3 letters: ager, ague, earl, egal, gale, gaur, gear, glue, grue, guar, lear, luge, lure, rage, rale, rare, real, rear, ruer, ruga, rule, urea, urge. | |
-4 letters: age, ale, are, ear, eau, era, erg. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: regulars, vulgarer. | |
+2 letters: guerrilla, irregular, regardful, regularly, regulator. | |
+3 letters: burglaries, burglarize, glomerular, guerrillas, irregulars, quarreling, regularity, regularize, regulators, regulatory, reregulate, superlarge, vulgarizer. | |
+4 letters: agriculture, burglarized, burglarizes, garrulities, gracefuller, gratefuller, irregularly, quarrelling, rectangular, regardfully, regularized, regularizes, reregulated, reregulates, slaughterer, vulgarizers. | |
+5 letters: agricultures, disregardful, gregariously, grossularite, irregularity, overregulate, preinaugural, preslaughter, reassuringly, regularities, regularizing, relacquering, reregulating, reregulation, slaughterers. | |
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