1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. regular

Find the word definition

What is "regular"

Crossword clues for regular

regular
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
regular
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a constant/steady/regular supply
▪ For dairy farming, a constant supply of lush grass is essential.
a regular bus (=one that goes at regular times)
▪ Regular buses run to the airport.
a regular check
▪ It’s vital to keep a regular check on your bank balance.
a regular column
▪ His views were well-known from his regular column in The Spectator magazine.
a regular commuter
▪ He was a regular commuter between Cambridge and London.
a regular customer
▪ My business quickly built up a base of regular customers.
a regular feature (=one that happens often or a lot)
▪ Delays and cancellations are a regular feature of air travel.
a regular guyAmerican English (= an ordinary man)
▪ I knew him in high school. He’s just a regular guy.
a regular user
▪ Regular sunbed users are likely to suffer long-term skin damage.
a regular/frequent guest
▪ The Johnsons were regular guests at Eric’s house in Notting Hill.
a regular/standing army (=permanent and existing whether there is a war or not)
▪ The regular army has about 5,000 troops.
long-term/regular employment (=working for the same company for a long time)
▪ She finally found regular employment at a hospital in York.
regular attender
▪ Daniel was a regular attender at the Baptist Church.
regular contact
▪ All students have regular contact with their tutor.
regular footed
regular meals (=ones that are eaten at the same time each day)
▪ Patients are advised to eat regular meals.
regular medication (=one that someone takes often)
▪ He is on regular medication to prevent fits.
regular use
▪ These drugs are not recommended for regular use.
regular/daily exercise
▪ Taking regular exercise is the best way to improve your overall health.
regular/frequent inspections
▪ Restaurants are subject to regular health and safety inspections.
regular/irregular (=following a regular pattern, or not following one)
▪ Spend time learning the forms of irregular verbs.
sb’s normal/usual/regular routine
▪ Although he'd gone, I continued with my normal routine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
army
▪ The ragged guerrillas become a new regular army with housing and pensions.
▪ The other women in the classroom, except for two in the uniforms of the regular army, wear dresses.
▪ It is possible that some of Mezrag's forces continue to provide the regular army with back-up troops.
▪ The regular army had become increasingly discontented with its role in the war over the last ten years.
▪ There are effectively two armies: the regular army and the Republican Guard, identifiable by the red triangle on their uniforms.
▪ Just seven days later, Benjamin O.. Davis was named the first black general in the regular army.
▪ Organised at state level, the Guard is composed of part-timers who undergo a statutory period of training with the regular Army.
▪ During the eighteenth century the irregular Cossack hosts were gradually brought under control and absorbed into the regular army.
basis
▪ He must therefore satisfy himself on a regular basis that it does not constitute a statutory nuisance.
▪ And does anyone remember the bizarre lineups that used to play at the Downtown Performance Center on a regular basis?
▪ Because of other demands on his time, the Chancellor will not usually be a leading participant on a regular basis.
▪ She had a smart daughter over in Daytona who said those things to her on a regular basis.
▪ Perhaps the banks will be the most insistent on the provision of certain defined management accounting information on a regular basis.
▪ And they had to be kept informed on a regular basis about changes in the competitive picture and performance expectations.
▪ They have employees, profits, overheads and customers to be supplied on a regular basis.
▪ Sure, we sit down and talk about the budget on a regular basis.
check
▪ All your gear must be in good condition and regular checks cost nothing.
▪ Conduct regular checks on your water quality using test-kits.
▪ But as soon as his regular check brings to light the absentee he is able to take prompt and appropriate action.
▪ The tank was left for a further two weeks, during which regular checks were made on the quality of the water.
▪ Social workers and health visitors make regular checks.
▪ At night though the girls could become more easily frightened and the regular checks on the dormitories increased in importance.
▪ Many residents suffer from impaired vision and hearing and should have regular checks.
▪ Her contacts watched horse sales across the country and Mrs Calzini made regular checks with breeders, trainers and slaughterhouses.
customer
▪ Mrs Jackie Bowshell organised the event and cars were brought in by regular customers to a strict timetable.
▪ Jim was a regular customer and got a warm greeting from the owners.
▪ The people who drink at these places are more than regular customers they are members.
▪ Intelmet says that to make the service pay it will require just 10 regular customers every month.
▪ I did have one fairly regular customer though, and it was amazing how we started off.
▪ Indeed that is what the label regular customer really means: a customer who has the potential to go into debt.
exercise
▪ Regular hours, regular food, regular exercise, on orders from the Father General.
▪ I had to encourage him to keep up some golf and a regular exercise program in order to stay in shape.
▪ Most back problems originate in this area, but they could be easily avoided by regular exercise of the spinal erectors.
▪ On the plus side, weight loss and regular exercise have been shown to reverse this process.
▪ Exercise Taking regular exercise is one of the healthiest things that women can do.
▪ Maintaining a healthy weight, eating low-fat foods and getting regular exercise can reduce your risk.
▪ More women are taking up regular exercise, and may wish to continue their routine during pregnancy. 2.
▪ Keep up your regular exercise and be careful not to strain yourself with the heavy clubs.
interval
▪ Tom Rooney was standing by the door with his pocket-watch in his hand, allowing his men out in regular intervals.
▪ Follow-ups at regular intervals also focus on relapse prevention.
▪ The switchboard can automatically call the guest's room at regular intervals until a reply is received.
▪ They started at a particular time, and at regular intervals another dorm would go in.
▪ Marshall took 5 for 35 as wickets toppled at regular intervals, and the board reached only 162.
▪ The rest, six in all, have come at regular intervals since.
▪ Benny found herself in a rock-walled tunnel, with bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling at regular intervals.
▪ He slept at regular intervals, was not colicky, and was not overly active.
job
▪ And he had his regular job which his son was keeping warm for him.
▪ And so the venture was launched as a weekend sidecar to their regular jobs.
▪ Here in Deptford half the male population don't have what you'd call a regular job.
▪ Working a regular job, you lose a lot of time with them.
▪ Three and a half years ago, six computer programmers gave up their regular jobs to form Computercraft.
▪ First, she said, her husband: quite a number of successful poets had supported themselves by working at regular jobs.
▪ He had said he would give up freelancing and get a regular job on a trade magazine or something.
▪ At first we worked regular jobs in the daytime and our own little business at night and on weekends.
pattern
▪ Equally, much conversation has a regular pattern to it.
▪ But perhaps Joseph got us started on the wrong track, for booms and busts do not appear in regular patterns.
▪ The solution to this problem, like that of the boiling liquid, is found in the formation of regular patterns.
▪ His lower abdomen was expanding and contracting in a deep, regular pattern.
▪ The Conference has a regular pattern of work.
▪ In each case, the result is a solid composed of atoms arranged in a regular pattern.
▪ This is true only for music which moves in regular patterns, and we could well do otherwise if we wish.
▪ The footfalls drummed a fast, regular pattern of coordinated trot.
service
▪ A regular service contract is not expensive when compared to the cost of modern instruments and can provide great peace of mind.
▪ Dennison instituted an air charter service as well as regular service between Hyannis and Boston.
▪ The ferry crews on regular service between Harwich and the Hook evidently took to their unexpected role as child minders.
▪ He has a custom-built tank and regular service by an aquarium specialist.
▪ However every car needs a regular service by trained personnel who do understand its mechanical workings.
▪ The Beech 1900, a twin-engine turboprop seating 19, is among the smaller commuter aircraft in regular service.
▪ It held regular services, ran a Sunday school and was involved in numerous village activities.
▪ The plane made a nationwide publicity tour before beginning regular service.
use
▪ This finding warns us against concluding that women get into heroin and sustain regular use solely because of male associations and partnerships.
▪ Each user will be required to buy an annual pass and pay regular use fees.
▪ A slatted steamer chair costs £186; well-worth investigating, for occasional or regular use.
▪ All her bicycle needed was some regular use.
▪ This was the only period when the connecting curve at the top of Tamworth Road was in regular use.
▪ She told me that she considered it a better one, but that it was too old to be in regular use.
▪ Tolerance means that with regular use, you need to increase the dose to achieve the same effect.
▪ But Smith's name is unfamiliar even to many of the professional mathematicians who make regular use of the ideas he introduced.
visit
▪ However, even this chore was quickly organised to accommodate regular visits to his beloved Scourie.
▪ So I may anticipate regular visits of inspection and solicitude while they wait for me to get a belly full of independence.
▪ Prisons are exempt from having regular visits from environmental health officers, but in April 1992 this Crown Immunity will be lifted.
▪ Your doctor and the hospital will arrange for you to make regular visits for antenatal care.
▪ She makes regular visits to Osteopath, Steven Davies in Cheltenham for treatment.
▪ Sir John pays regular visits to the traders to offer advice.
▪ Nicklaus made regular visits to oversee operations as the course was being carved out of the lush countryside.
▪ But at the same time lawyers and family were generally permitted to make regular visits.
visitor
▪ He was a regular visitor, escorting the girls to the theatre and parties.
▪ One of the bungalows, which once boasted Walter Annenberg as a regular visitor, even comes with its own lap pool.
▪ He was such a regular visitor that he was given his own pit boots and locker.
▪ Within a few weeks they were regular visitors.
▪ One regular visitor to la strega, and later to Signora Grignaffini, was Amelia.
▪ These ships were regular visitors for over twenty years.
▪ Once I brought them home to our flat, they soon lost their bounce and the doctor became a regular visitor.
▪ Of that, perhaps 5,000 people are regular visitors, Harris said.
work
▪ Only two of the ten who had completed their education were in full-time regular work.
▪ Their regular work on this day is handled by the novices who are assigned to assist them during the week.
▪ Legal arguments about the extent and scope of repairing covenants keep much of the landlord and tenant bar in very regular work.
▪ He then organized a team of five employees who revised the proposal and several other documents-without interrupting the regular work flow.
▪ Then he asked me to do his regular work, but I didn't commit myself.
▪ Fanshawe had never had any regular work, she said, nothing that could be called a real job.
▪ Few had found regular work although without being specific part time and temporary work had been undertaken.
▪ Managers who live in the hotel usually have regular work schedules, but they may be called to work at any time.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at regular intervals
▪ Feed your puppy at the same regular intervals each day.
▪ Small trees can be planted at regular intervals along a path to create an avenue.
▪ There are stations where runners can get water at regular intervals throughout the marathon.
▪ These women were given blood tests at regular intervals for a year.
▪ Better to feed small amounts at regular intervals.
▪ By practicing at regular intervals, the insight and calm of meditation are maintained and amplified.
▪ He made long sweeps at regular intervals in and around the Teeth, but there was nothing.
▪ He may be required to report to a particular individual or place at regular intervals as part of a monitoring process.
▪ If using a cone, spray again at regular intervals.
▪ Now for the decorations ... Push the gold candles into the icing at regular intervals.
▪ The fog-horn, its sound now muffled by the houses, continued to bleat at regular intervals.
▪ They would have to field candidates for a variety of offices at regular intervals or risk being closed.
long/regular/late etc hours
▪ A junior hospital doctor was telling Virginia Bottomley of the long hours he worked in casualty.
▪ During the decline of hand-loom weaving, more and more families were brought under the necessity of working longer hours.
▪ He had gone to Peterborough and worked long hours in a canning factory only so that he could own this bike.
▪ Instead he spent long hours alone, reading memoranda, and making check marks to indicate the recommendations that he ap-proved.
▪ It meant long hours for the pilots, flight deck crews, repair crews and cooks.
▪ It provides leisure time, one of the prime goals for which most men work long hours and years.
▪ These data are there for the asking, and they can provide a shortcut to long hours of interviews and observations.
▪ We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals.
on a regular/daily/weekly etc basis
▪ Among stocks, only the railroads paid dividends on a regular basis.
▪ Because of other demands on his time, the Chancellor will not usually be a leading participant on a regular basis.
▪ Both will prevent you from burning and tanning, provided they are reapplied on a regular basis.
▪ Counselling, information and advice giving, respite from caring on a regular basis can all help.
▪ I hear there are very few companies in our industry who carry out a comprehensive performance review on a regular basis.
▪ If you like going to concerts, do so on a regular basis. 3.
▪ Neither you nor I nor most people embrace behavior change on a regular basis.
▪ The president often raises it before heavily female audiences but not on a regular basis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a regular churchgoer
▪ Do you do any regular exercise?
▪ Do you want decaffeinated or regular coffee?
▪ Dr. Garrison is a regular doctor, not a specialist.
▪ Draw a regular hexagon with 90 mm sides.
▪ Even though the dye is quite strong a regular shampoo will remove it.
▪ I'd like a cheeseburger and a regular Coke.
▪ If they don't have Tylenol, just get me regular aspirin.
▪ Infants require regular health screening.
▪ It's important to visit your dentist for regular check-ups.
▪ More than 60% of adults drink wine on a regular basis.
▪ Nat got his fine, regular features from his mother.
▪ She was attractive rather than beautiful, with regular features and dark hair.
▪ The exhibitions by young artists formed a regular feature of the London arts scene.
▪ The Parent-Teacher Association has regular meetings every month.
▪ The prison is inspected at regular intervals by government health officers.
▪ What's the regular procedure for filing a complaint?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another boy is in a regular private foster home.
▪ At Shell stations, regular unleaded is about $ 1. 43 up from $ 1. 39.
▪ From a Piagetian constructivist perspective, critical thinking is not fundamentally different from regular thinking.
▪ Here at the Moredon Community Gardening Centre, there are regular classes on anything from hanging baskets to dried flower arranging.
▪ In addition, the regular menu will be available for diners who have yet to be struck by Cupid's arrow.
▪ There is a regular bus service into Oxford, easy access to the Ring Road and local shops in Wolvercote village.
▪ These countries are able to practise open trading because their elephant herds are now big enough to demand regular culling.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Early morning regulars were surprised to find the coffee shop closed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But regulars are right behind the pink pub.
▪ He and the rest of the Grill regulars would gladly grub the stumps out of the town lot with their own hands.
▪ He never played in the same pub twice in the same month; even so, word got around among the regulars.
▪ Joe became a regular on the circuit of social Washington.
▪ Julie Riley and Paula Wilcox are excellent as the hard-bitten contestant regulars.
▪ The regulars show up later, after supper.
▪ The chances of recruiting enough regulars seemed slender in the conditions of overfull employment prevailing in Britain in the 1950s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regular

Regular \Reg"u*lar\ (-l?r), a. [L. regularis, fr. regula a rule, fr. regere to guide, to rule: cf. F. r['e]gulier. See Rule.]

  1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.

  2. Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits.

  3. Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops.

  4. Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.

  5. Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug.

  6. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.

  7. (Crystallog.) Same as Isometric.

    Regular polygon (Geom.), a plane polygon which is both equilateral and equiangular.

    Regular polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron whose faces are equal regular polygons. There are five regular polyhedrons, -- the tetrahedron, the hexahedron, or cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron.

    Regular sales (Stock Exchange), sales of stock deliverable on the day after the transaction.

    Regular troops, troops of a standing or permanent army; -- opposed to militia.

    Syn: Normal; orderly; methodical. See Normal.

Regular

Regular \Reg"u*lar\ (r[e^]g"[-u]*l[~e]r), n. [LL. regularis: cf. F. r['e]gulier. See Regular, a.]

  1. (R. C. Ch.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church.
    --Bp. Fitzpatrick.

  2. (Mil.) A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
regular

late 14c., from Old French reguler "ecclesiastical" (Modern French régulier), from Late Latin regularis "containing rules for guidance," from Latin regula "rule," from PIE *reg- "move in a straight line" (see regal).\n

\nEarliest sense was of religious orders (the opposite of secular). Extended from late 16c. to shapes, etc., that followed predictable or uniform patterns; sense of "normal" is from 1630s; meaning "real, genuine" is from 1821. Old English borrowed Latin regula and nativized it as regol "rule, regulation, canon, law, standard, pattern;" hence regolsticca "ruler" (instrument); regollic (adj.) "canonical, regular."

regular

c.1400, "member of a religious order," from regular (adj.). Sense of "soldier of a standing army" is from 1756. Meaning "regular customer" is from 1852; meaning "leaded gasoline" is from 1978.

Wiktionary
regular

a. 1 (context Christianity English) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to (term: secular)). (from 14th c.) 2 Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance. (from 15th c.) 3 (context geometry of a polygon English) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size (from 16th c.) 4 (context geometry of a polyhedron English) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other. 5 Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence. (from 16th c.) 6 (context now rare English) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.). (from 16th c.) 7 Happening at constant (especially short) intervals. (from 17th c.) 8 (context grammar of a verb, plural, etc English) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language. (from 17th c.) 9 (context chiefly US English) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard. (from 17th c.) n. 1 A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or reserve). 2 A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment. 3 A frequent customer, client or business partner. 4 (context Canada English) A coffee with one cream and one sugar. 5 Anything that is normal or standard.

Related phrases:
WordNet
regular

  1. n. a regular patron; "an habitue of the racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture" [syn: habitue, fixture]

  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

regular

  1. adj. in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle; "his regular calls on his customers"; "regular meals"; "regular duties" [ant: irregular]

  2. often used as intensifiers; "a regular morass of details"; "a regular nincompoop"; "he's a veritable swine" [syn: regular(a), veritable(a)]

  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 [ant: irregular]

  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" [syn: even]

  8. relating to a person who does something regularly; "a regular customer"; "a steady drinker" [syn: steady]

  9. (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces; "the regular army" [ant: irregular]

  10. not constipated [syn: unconstipated] [ant: constipated]

  11. symmetrically arranged; "even features"; "regular features"; "a regular polygon" [syn: even]

  12. not deviating from what is normal; "her regular bedtime"

  13. officially full-time; "regular students"

Related phrases:
Wikipedia
Regular

The term regular can mean normal or in accordance with rules. It may refer to:

Related phrases:

Usage examples of "regular".

As a vessel with no regular ports of call, with only very limited passenger accommodation and capacious cargo holds that were seldom far from full, the s.

Loose regular meter, alliteration, stylised phrasing, and structuring by repetition are the principal poetic devices.

He began to take little drops of glass from the furnace on the end of a thin iron, and he drew them out into thick threads and heated them again and laid them on the body of the ampulla, twisting and turning each bit till he had no more, and forming a regular raised design on the surface.

It shows God himself creating by regular methods, in natural materials, not by a vicegerent law, not with the anthropomorphitic hands of an external potter.

Our Apostleship requires, that the Catholic faith should especially in this Our day increase and flourish everywhere, and that all heretical depravity should be driven far from the frontiers and bournes of the Faithful, We very gladly proclaim and even restate those particular means and methods whereby Our pious desire may obtain its wished effect, since when all errors are uprooted by Our diligent avocation as by the hoe of a provident husbandman, a zeal for, and the regular observance of, Our holy Faith will be all the more strongly impressed upon the hearts of the faithful.

They went to their regular meals in the English ship, and pretty soon they were nibbling again--nibbling, appetiteless, disgusted with the food, moody, miserable, half hungry, their outraged stomachs cursing and swearing and whining and supplicating all day long.

Uncle Sam was called to fight for humanity, and only an approximation of the condition can be made, for about two-thirds of the National Guard had been taken into the regular service incident to the trouble with Mexico, when the Guardsmen were summoned to the border to protect the country, and recruiting was proceeding in all branches of the service to bring all the regiments up to a war footing.

He always came home sober, not disturbing his daughter, despite the fact that he had his first anisette when he awoke and continued chewing the end of his unlit cigar and drinking at regular intervals throughout the day.

In appearance they are not very different from conventional bacteria, but at high magnification, or rather, at a relatively high magnification, the highest magnification a conventional school microscope is capable of, if you look very carefully you could see some particles inside that have regular geometric shapes.

You stuck out like a sore thumb in the saloon bar of The Bargee and at regular intervals since.

I find someone else, you go ahead and do regular bartending here, and no hard feelings for either of us.

Without prompting, the bartender served Sivrak his regular order-a mug of crushed Gilden, organ tendrils still writhing, attesting to their freshness.

Chambersburg only two days when Scott ordered him to wait until some regular infantrymen and several batteries of artillery reached him to give spine to his volunteers.

He rode the slidewalks and escalators until, half a mile above the ground, he came to his regular Tuesday-evening eateasy, a swank and illegal little restaurant with a grubby exterior that proclaimed to all nonmembers that it was a branch of a silicone surgery beautification chain.

The session was no sooner adjourned than sir John Lanier converted the blockade of Edinburgh castle into a regular siege, which was prosecuted with such vigour that in a little time the fortifications were ruined, and the works advanced at the foot of the walls, in which the besiegers had made several large breaches.