regular
IPA: rˈɛgjʌɫɝ
noun
- A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
- A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
- A member of an armed forces or police force.
- A frequent customer, client or business partner.
- (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
- Anything that is normal or standard.
- A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
- 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.
- 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.
adjective
- (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
- Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
- (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
- Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
- (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
- (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
- Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
- (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language.
- (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
- (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
- Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
- (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
- (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
- (crystallography) Isometric.
- (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
- (mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
adverb
- (archaic, dialect, nonstandard) Regularly, on a regular basis.
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Examples of "regular" in Sentences
- He regularized the city plan.
- The writing is neat and regular.
- This uses the axiom of regularity.
- He was the first regular panelist.
- They observed regularity of nature.
- He is a regular lecturer on the Music.
- He was the regular rider of Triplicate.
- In regular conversation, the term is pedantic.
- The hexagon faces are equilateral but not regular.
- She is a regular contributor to the, and is the columnist for.
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