Word Finder - regular

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A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).

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A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.

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Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.

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A frequent customer, client or business partner.

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This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars.

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A coffee with one cream and one sugar.

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Anything that is normal or standard.

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A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.

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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.

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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.

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Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).

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regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy

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Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.

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• equable
• uniform
• unvarying

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(of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size

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(of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.

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Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.

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• in order
• ruly
• tidy
• chaotic
• tumultuous

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Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).

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• decent
• seemly
• well-mannered

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Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.

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He made regular visits to go see his mother.

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• cyclical
• frequent

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(grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language.

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"Walked" is the past tense of the regular verb "to walk".

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• weak

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Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.

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• basic
• common
• unremarkable

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Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.

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Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.

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Maintaining a high-fibre diet keeps you regular.

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Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.

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a regular genius; a regular John Bull

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• absolute
• thorough
• unalloyed

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Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.

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a regular flower; a regular sea urchin

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Isometric.

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Riding with the left foot forward.

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(of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.

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Regularly, on a regular basis.

Tonight she was having fun, but it wasn't something she would enjoy doing on a regular basis.

We were regular working stiffs to the rest of the world.

For a long time I had no regular lessons.

It was a regular dream—just clearer than any I've ever experienced.

If the faces be all equal equilateral triangles the solid is termed the "regular" tetrahedron.

He's a regular pet now.

Yes, I am taking the regular college course for a degree.

In her reports Miss Sullivan speaks of "lessons" as if they came in regular order.

No doubt because she didn't have to do it on a regular basis as Alex did.

No other regular army unit has a chance out here.

To their disappointment there was within this mountain no regular flight of steps by means of which they could mount to the earth's surface.

Two days later, a cryptic message was posted on his regular secure web site.

The owners said there were wild plum and cherry trees, all kinds of nuts and berries - a regular gold mine of natural food.

Maybe all regular army-types thought this way.

Orders were given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia.

He needs activity, and this quiet regular life is very bad for him.

Surely she couldn't be expected to commute that kind of distance on a regular basis.

He was more intrigued by the sight of soldiers in PMF grays as well as those in the regular military's black uniforms.

How are they different from regular shoes?

The bay forms a fairly regular curve, broken on the French seaboard only by the estuaries of the Loire, Garonne, Adour and..

In her despair she turned for comfort and counsel to Sainte-Beuve, now constituted her regular father confessor.

On entering the ballroom the regular hum of voices, footsteps, and greetings deafened Natasha, and the light and glitter dazzled her still more.

Put him beside his wife and he looks a regular buffoon!

I believe your regular launch sites have been well covered by the enemy.

Unlike the regular military, the political elite's security private forces were made up of children from the upper class to prevent the elite class from becoming polluted by the poor.

It didn't take him long to hit the rest area— he was one of the first riders, a regular Greg LeMonde.

Vico's writings suffer through their author's not having followed a regular course of studies, and his style is very involved.

The offer was refused, and for three years he was without a regular position.

The general construction of wooden screens is close panelling beneath, on which stands screen-work composed of slender turned balusters or regular wooden mullions, supporting tracery more or less rich with cornices, crestings, &c., and often painted in brilliant colours and gilded.

It is the seat of a Moravian mission, and has a good harbour, with regular steamship services to Greytown in Nicaragua, and to New Orleans.

The regular force is maintained by annual drawings from the lists of young men 19 years of age in the first reserves, who are required to serve four years.

In 1849 the regular payment of the interest of the public debt was commenced, steam communication was established along the Pacific coast, and a railroad was made from Lima to Callao.

After a regular term of office of six years of peace and moral and material progress Castilla resigned, and General Jose Echenique was elected president.

There is regular steamer communication with London, Christiania, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

For efficiency the operation must be conducted with small quantities; caking may be prevented by mixing the substance with sand or powdered pumice, or, better, with iron filings, which also renders the decomposition more regular by increasing the conductivity of the mass.

See Fernao Lopes, Chronica del Rey Dom Pedro (1735); Camoens, Os Lusiadas; Antonio Ferreira's Ines de Castro, - the first regular tragedy of the Renaissance after the Sofonisba of Trissino; Luis Velez de Guevara, Reinar despues de morir, an admirable play; and Ferdinand Denis, Chroniques chevaleresques de l'Espagne et du Portugal.

These various forms are perfectly regular if the divine name was Yahweh, and, taken altogether, they cannot be explained on any other hypothesis.

Grant was at once made a major-general in the regular army.

He served as a brigadier-general of volunteers in the Spanish-American War of 1898,1898, and then in the Philippines, becoming brigadiergeneral in the regular army in February 1901 and major-general in February 1906.

The flowers are regular, with a perianth springing from above the ovary, tubular below, with spreading segments and a central corona; the six stamens are inserted within the tube.

Telegraph and telephone cables join these ports, but a regular passenger route does not exist owing to the unsuitability of Portpatrick.

It is of remarkably regular formation, and the floor is pierced by a number of huge fumaroles whence issue immense volumes of steam.

So thoroughly had he now mastered the management of glazes that he could combine yellow, green, white and claret color in regular patches to imitate tortoise-shell.

Six hundred years later, the local satraps are represented as having received instructions to build regular highways, and in the 3rd century the massing of troops for an over-sea expedition invested roads with new value.

At a popular demonstration held at Offenburg on the 12th of September 1847, resolutions were passed demanding the conversion of the regular army into a national militia which.

Cave introduced the practice of giving engravings, maps and portraits, but his greatest success was the addition of Samuel Johnson to the regular staff.

The regular price of these magazines was half a crown; the first of the cheaper ones was Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1832-1861) at a shilling.

About the year 1663 Mezeray obtained a privilege for a regular literary periodical, which came to nothing, and it was left to Denis de Sallo.

The speech is unfortunately lost, but Gibbon, who heard it, told his friend Holroyd (afterwards Earl of Sheffield) that Fox, "taking the vast compass of the question before us, discovered powers for regular debate which neither his friends hoped nor his enemies dreaded."

The Regular Worker who Risks it All and Strikes it Rich.