regular
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English reguler, from Anglo-Norman reguler, Middle French reguler, regulier, and their source, Latin rēgulāris (“continuing rules for guidance”), from rēgula (“rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“move in a straight line”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) enPR: regʹyo͝olər IPA(key): /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə/
- (US) enPR: regʹyələr, regʹlər, IPA(key): /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ/, /ˈɹɛɡ.l̩ɚ/, [ˈɹɛɡ.jɪ̈.lɚ], [ˈɹɛɡ.l̩ɚ]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛɡjʊlə(ɹ), -ɛɡjələ(ɹ), -ɛɡələ(ɹ)
- (US) Hyphenation: reg‧u‧lar
AdjectiveEdit
regular (comparative more regular, superlative most regular)
- (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular). [from 14th c.]
- regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy
- 2002, Jones, Colin, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 201:
- A quarter of a million strong in 1680, the clergy was only half as large in 1789. The unpopular regular clergy were the worst affected.
- Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance. [from 15th c.]
- Synonyms: equable, uniform, unvarying; see also Thesaurus:steady
- Antonyms: chaotic, irregular; see also Thesaurus:unsteady
- (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size [from 16th c.]
- (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. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: in order, ruly, tidy; see also Thesaurus:orderly
- Antonyms: chaotic, tumultuous; see also Thesaurus:disorderly
- 2011 April 12, Kennedy, A[lison] L[ouise], The Guardian:
- April may be the cruellest month, but I am planning to render it civilised and to take my antibiotics in a regular manner.
- (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.). [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: decent, seemly, well-mannered
- Antonyms: degenerate, irregular
- Happening at constant (especially short) intervals. [from 17th c.]
- Synonyms: cyclical, frequent; see also Thesaurus:periodic
- Antonyms: irregular, noncyclic
- He made regular visits to go see his mother.
- (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language. [from 17th c.]
- (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard. [from 17th c.]
- Synonyms: basic, common, unremarkable; see also Thesaurus:normal, Thesaurus:common
- Antonyms: irregular, outlandish, weird; see also Thesaurus:strange
- 1913, Lincoln, Joseph C[rosby], chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
- (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops. [from 17th c.]
- Antonym: irregular
- Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way. [from 18th c.]
- Maintaining a high-fibre diet keeps you regular.
- 2015, Bryson, Bill, The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island, page 206:
- Gulls cawed and wheeled overhead, dropping splatty white cluster bombs on rooftops and pavements. Goodness knows what those gulls eat, but it certainly keeps them regular.
- (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright. [from 18th c.]
- Synonyms: absolute, thorough, unalloyed; see also Thesaurus:total
- a regular genius; a regular John Bull
- 1997 February 16, Ron Hauge, Homer's Phobia (The Simpsons), season 8, episode 15, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta):
- Don't worry, boy. We're gonna set you straight. By tomorrow morning, you'll be a regular Burt Reynolds.
- (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
- a regular flower; a regular sea urchin
- (crystallography) Isometric.
- (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
- Antonym: goofy
- (mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
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- (snowboarding): switch
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AdverbEdit
regular (not comparable)
- (archaic, dialect, nonstandard) Regularly, on a regular basis.
- 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:
- 'And if the knowledge wasn'y well come by, why, you might ha' made up for it by coming to church reg'lar.'
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
- Though no minister would visit the Skerburnfoot, or, if he went, departed quicker than he came, the girl Ailie attended regular at the catechising at the mains of Sker.
- 1961, Colin Thiele, The Sun on the Stubble, Melbourne: Rigby Limited, page 113:
- "Drain her every thousand, regular. Don't do it myself, o' course; just drop her in at the lubritorium."
- 1988, Mary Steele, Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds, Ringwood: Puffin Books, page 37:
- "All we've got to do is stick 'em in the bedroom and feed 'em regular."
NounEdit
regular (plural regulars)
- A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
- A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
- Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.
- A member of an armed forces or police force.
- A frequent customer, client or business partner.
- This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars.
- (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
- Anything that is normal or standard.
- 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees.
- 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
- (routine visitor): frequenter, habitué, patron, usual suspects
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ReferencesEdit
- regular in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- regular in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
AsturianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Late Latin rēgulāris.
AdjectiveEdit
regular (epicene, plural regulares)
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Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Latin rēgulāre, present active infinitive of rēgulō. Compare the doublet reglar, borrowed earlier from the same source.
VerbEdit
regular (first-person singular indicative present regulo, past participle reguláu)
- to regulate
ConjugationEdit
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Late Latin rēgulāris.
AdjectiveEdit
regular (masculine and feminine plural regulars)
- regular (having a constant pattern)
- Antonym: irregular
- normal, average
- (geometry) regular (both equilateral and equiangular)
- Antonym: irregular
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Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Latin rēgulāre, present active infinitive of rēgulō.
VerbEdit
regular (first-person singular present regulo, past participle regulat)
- (transitive) to regulate
ConjugationEdit
infinitive | regular | ||||||
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present participle | regulant | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | regulat | regulada | |||||
plural | regulats | regulades | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | regulo | regules | regula | regulem | reguleu | regulen | |
imperfect | regulava | regulaves | regulava | regulàvem | regulàveu | regulaven | |
future | regularé | regularàs | regularà | regularem | regulareu | regularan | |
preterite | regulí | regulares | regulà | regulàrem | regulàreu | regularen | |
conditional | regularia | regularies | regularia | regularíem | regularíeu | regularien | |
subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | reguli | regulis | reguli | regulem | reguleu | regulin | |
imperfect | regulés | regulessis | regulés | reguléssim | reguléssiu | regulessin | |
imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
— | regula | reguli | regulem | reguleu | regulin |
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Further readingEdit
- “regular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “regular”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “regular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “regular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
GalicianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Attested since circa 1300. Borrowed from Late Latin rēgulāris.
AdjectiveEdit
regular m or f (plural regulares)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
regular (first-person singular present regulo, first-person singular preterite regulei, past participle regulado)
ConjugationEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “regular” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “regular” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “regular” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “regular” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “regular” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
PortugueseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Learned borrowing from Late Latin rēgulāris.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: re‧gu‧lar
AdjectiveEdit
regular m or f (plural regulares, comparable, comparative mais regular, superlative o mais regular or regularíssimo)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Learned borrowing from Latin rēgulāre. Compare the doublet regrar, borrowed earlier from the same source.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: re‧gu‧lar
VerbEdit
regular (first-person singular present regulo, first-person singular preterite regulei, past participle regulado)
ConjugationEdit
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
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SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Late Latin rēgulāris.
AdjectiveEdit
regular (plural regulares)
- regular, steady, even
- fair, fairly good, average
- common, ordinary, middling, so-so
- (grammar) regular
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Latin rēgulāre, present active infinitive of rēgulō.
VerbEdit
regular (first-person singular present regulo, first-person singular preterite regulé, past participle regulado)
ConjugationEdit
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “regular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
TagalogEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish regular.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
regulár
- regular; usual; ordinary
- Synonyms: karaniwan, pangkaraniwan
- habitual; steady; permanent
- uniform; not changing
- customary; usual
- Synonyms: katamtaman, kainaman