The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.
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.
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.
Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.
Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug.
(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.
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(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.
Usage examples of "regular troops".
The tactical idea is not so much to defeat an invader as to hold him up till the regular troops can get at him.
Add to that the inflated Fleet Strike salary levels and the monthly cost for the company was nearly as much as a division of regular troops.
The Malwa commander has them on the flanks in order to make sure that his regular troops don't break and run when the battle starts.
Usually we have a few hundred regular troops here, enough to, ah—.
And to their own trust in Lieutenant Colonel Armistead and his regular troops and sailors manning Fort McHenry.
Generals usually don't care about whether they get regular troops in trouble.
As they were more ambitious of spoil than of glory, they seldom attacked any fortified cities, or engaged any regular troops in the open field.
Their courage was supported and directed by Crispinus and Menophilus, two of the twenty lieutenants of the senate, who, with a small body of regular troops, had thrown themselves into the besieged place.