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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
regularly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
appear
▪ For the past two years his photograph has regularly appeared in the Corsican press.
▪ But in high school his passion had turned to painting, and his work regularly appeared in annual exhibitions.
▪ This huge flightless bird has regularly appeared in illustrated fossil books as a giant carnivore.
▪ They regularly appeared as part of the banquet fare of the day.
▪ Infantilized, she used to appear regularly in hagiographical volumes, especially those designed for the edification of small girls.
▪ Prices of the funds appear regularly in the Financial Times, etc.
▪ She kept bees in Jane's orchard and would appear regularly swathed in black net with her eleven-year-old son in tow.
▪ New versions of each format appear regularly and each update has new features.
attend
▪ To get the most out of lectures, it pays to attend regularly.
▪ Mrs Carter pushed for mental health legislation and regularly attended cabinet meetings.
▪ Review the staff meetings schedule to make sure everyone is able to attend regularly.
▪ Various indicators suggest less than 10 percent of San Franciscans regularly attend church.
▪ Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
▪ A good committee member will attend regularly to follow the sequence of matters at each meeting.
▪ He attended regularly but never spoke.
▪ Only about 7 % of locals regularly attend church.
check
▪ Her wound was checked regularly for excess drainage but none was detected.
▪ What's more all the holiday parks listed are regularly checked and graded by tourist board inspectors.
▪ Male speaker It's important bridges of this age are regularly checked.
▪ The Computer Group Manager should regularly check the progress that is being made towards resolving the problems that are under his control.
▪ Also the battery needs to be checked regularly especially if the child is wetting frequently.
▪ The patient's normal temperature range is established following admission and checked regularly in the early post-operative period.
▪ Benefits rates and totals should be regularly checked as well.
▪ These children are regularly checked, their teachers are consulted and advised, and conductors visit their schools.
exercise
Exercise stimulates the brain so, in general, students who exercise regularly will look and be fit.
▪ If you are overweight, over 40 or not exercising regularly, take the test, know your score.
▪ But the maximum weight loss will be achieved by those who stick rigidly to the diet plan and who exercise regularly.
▪ Under duress, it regularly exercises this will to sabotage the earnest efforts of its well-intentioned host.
▪ Also, students who exercise regularly put less strain on their cardiovascular systems while accomplishing tasks.
▪ So he started exercising regularly and eating low-calorie foods and, lo and behold, trimmed down to a svelte 290.
hold
▪ Rotational needs - the venue may change when meetings are held regularly to allow delegates equal ease of access 5.
▪ Nationally, nearly 50 scooter clubs have cropped up, and scooter runs are held regularly in nearly every state.
▪ A prize draw was held regularly, and winners were awarded specially designed T shirts.
▪ Services are held regularly, and once a month prisoners are taken on a religious retreat nearby.
▪ Fairs were held regularly with the markets but they were by no means profitable.
▪ Major international events Volunteering in individual sports includes regularly held events within the domestic calendar of each sport.
meet
▪ The only place where artists, intellectuals and the students could meet regularly were the cafes.
▪ These few basic rules can make your group maximally helpful:-#Meet regularly at a mutually acceptable time and place.
▪ A special thanks to our prayer support group who meet regularly at John and Rosemary Turner's.
▪ Over the next year and a half, management met regularly with union officials, and both met regularly with workers.
▪ Friendly support is offered by small groups of mothers and children meeting regularly in the daytime in each others houses.
▪ Over the next year and a half, management met regularly with union officials, and both met regularly with workers.
▪ In some areas fundholders had formed liaison groups and were meeting regularly to share experiences and develop their collective expertise.
perform
▪ And my mother was always making me and my sister perform regularly.
▪ They also, as do the other groups, regularly perform in the hotels and some typical restaurants in the island.
▪ Have you even tried to draw up a list of the actions you have to perform regularly to succeed?
▪ Reverse phase microscopy was performed regularly to monitor the progress of the cultures.
play
▪ It would have been stunning if Brown had played regularly before this incident.
▪ Last year three hundred and sixty pupils were injured from three thousand schools who regularly play the game.
▪ These days, he plays regularly with friends and in a local league in his hometown of Pensacola, Fla.
▪ She did considerable freelance work while establishing her trio, eventually playing regularly with drummer Steve Davis and several excellent bassists.
▪ He participated in the 1992 Olympics and he has played regularly with his traveling team.
▪ He insisted on returning to his old school, where he passed his exams and regularly plays football.
▪ He also plays regularly with various brass ensembles and has worked with many London orchestras.
report
▪ The postholder is required to report regularly to the Head of Section on these activities and operations.
review
▪ Professional development teachers rarely seemed to have been offered an induction programme or had their work regularly reviewed.
▪ They regularly review engineering and architectural drawings and specifications to monitor progress and ensure compliance with plans and specifications.
▪ All but three of the 42 patients were regularly reviewed in the coeliac clinic, which was established in 1978.
▪ Each person's care plan is reviewed regularly and up-dated.
▪ The stock of books, corporate information, and government publications are carefully selected and reviewed regularly.
▪ They are reviewed regularly and financial pressures are forcing many charities to tighten their qualifying criteria.
▪ In any event the relevant figure should be reviewed regularly to take account of inflation.
▪ Regularly reviewing the marketplace, researching and identifying trends, customer needs, and competitor activity.
schedule
▪ She is scheduled to have the first of regularly scheduled two-way video conferences with her family on Sunday.
▪ The board has had eight regularly scheduled meetings so far this year.
▪ This study demonstrated the need to do more careful appraisals of anthropometric measurements on a regularly scheduled basis.
▪ Almost all hospitals have regularly scheduled tours of the labor and delivery area and the postpartum divisions.
▪ These materials are used on a regularly scheduled basis.
take
▪ If you find your mail regularly takes more than a few minutes to arrive, you should seriously consider switching providers.
▪ He regularly takes days off to rest his back....
▪ Automatic weighing machines are very accurate and sample packs are taken regularly and weighed as a check.
▪ A large segment of the population surveyed was regularly taking vitamin supplements.
▪ We regularly take it that a causal circumstance is linked by way of a causal chain or sequence to its effect.
▪ He was baptized, confirmed at the age of 13, and regularly took communion at Mass.
▪ He is an enthusiastic member of Chichester Water Ski Club, and regularly takes part in competitions.
▪ Women need to have smears taken regularly.
use
▪ Run the program on your machine, with your particular hardware combination and with any other support programs you may use regularly.
▪ Leasure advises consumers to amass coupons only for products you regularly use, organize the coupons by aisles in the supermarket.
▪ It was obvious this part of the building was used regularly.
▪ Weapon convoys regularly use the M8 motorway through central Glasgow.
▪ The collection is regularly used in exhibits and educational programs.
▪ Its shape and worn appearance confirm that it is used regularly.
▪ Some of the things I use regularly, others not at all.
visit
▪ She receives physiotherapy three or four times a week and is regularly visited by the district nurse.
▪ Flynn got all the really difficult contracts, or the ones John was unsure of being able to visit regularly.
▪ Parents are generally supportive and regularly visit the school both as adult helpers or to talk to staff.
▪ Two branches in Birmingham were visited regularly for over a year between 1980 and 1981.
▪ And the family regularly visit his grave.
▪ It was visited regularly by Hoppy and all those kind of people.
▪ Sometimes little more is said even of grandparents who were visited regularly.
▪ He occasionally went for lonely walks on the moors, and regularly visited his wife's grave.
work
▪ Journalists who are working regularly in a certain field come to know the look of your paper and this can be useful.
▪ Today, more than 100 people work regularly on the site.
▪ Four members of staff working regularly on over-time succeeded in reducing this backlog to less than 9,000 by the end of the year.
▪ They remained on the cars for about a year, working regularly on route 16/18.
▪ It worked regularly for over a hundred and fifty years, its machinery driven by an undershot wheel which remains.
▪ All of us who work regularly in groups should try to identify our own defensive and constructive behaviour.
▪ And they work regularly in the courts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Both my sons phone me regularly, usually once a week.
▪ Children are required to attend school regularly.
▪ Company reports are published regularly and sent out to all shareholders.
▪ I've been going jogging regularly for a couple of years now.
▪ The teenage Presley regularly visited Memphis blues clubs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But other jocks of the period, notably white announcer Alan Freed, took money regularly.
▪ Each will be revised regularly to check on progress, and raise standards higher.
▪ One primary intervention therefore was for me to liaise regularly with the ward so that Mrs Allen was fully informed about the situation.
▪ Picking up droppings must be done regularly to keep the grazing sweet.
▪ She is scheduled to have the first of regularly scheduled two-way video conferences with her family on Sunday.
▪ So he started exercising regularly and eating low-calorie foods and, lo and behold, trimmed down to a svelte 290.
▪ The 29-year-old father of two said he was a casual smoker and did not use drugs regularly.
▪ Thirty years later, I am in academia myself and realize now that people are moved out of Department Chair positions regularly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regularly

Regularly \Reg"u*lar*ly\, adv. In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
regularly

1520s, "at proper times," from regular + -ly (2). Meaning "in accordance with rules" is from 1560s.

Wiktionary
regularly

adv. 1 With constant frequency or pattern. 2 normally; ordinarily.

WordNet
regularly
  1. adv. in a regular manner; "letters arrived regularly from his children" [syn: on a regular basis] [ant: irregularly]

  2. having a regular form; "regularly shaped objects" [ant: irregularly]

  3. in a regular way without variation; "try to breathe evenly" [ant: irregularly]

Usage examples of "regularly".

Business Advisory Council meets regularly with government officials six times a year.

Hall, the lady mother of the infant, a jolly dame, who happened to be engaged in the shell fish line, took the allusion immediately to herself, and commenced such a furious attack upon the alderman as proved her having been regularly matriculated at the college in Thames Street.

Slateford was an intelligent and well-read woman, whom she was sure would attend the antenatal clinics regularly.

The FBI should report regularly to Congress in its semiannual program reviews designed to identify whether each field office is appropriately addressing FBI and national program priorities.

Digitally archived data survives better, so long as it is regularly transferred from store to store.

But the evidence that aspirin helps prevent cardiovascular disease just keeps growing: one well-controlled study, for instance, showed that taking aspirin regularly reduced the incidence of heart attack by 44 percent.

Essex, she and her parents and her elder sister, married now and living in Canada, and she went home regularly to Wendens Ambo, sometimes with Bruce, sometimes alone, although she was going to miss that for a while, as they had left only a week ago to drive to Switzerland.

Berry, as her recital declared, was no other than that identical woman who once in old days had dared to behold the baronet behind his mask, and had ever since lived in exile from the Raynham world on a little pension regularly paid to her as an indemnity.

In places, such as Mints, where large numbers of bullion assays are regularly made a special form of cupel is used so that not less than six dozen assays may all be cupelled at the same time in a muffle of ordinary size.

The bullishness at once disappeared from his manner to be replaced by the jocular charm that had owners regularly mesmerised, that morning being no exception.

Rusteloos there are many industries where hydrocyanic acid is used regularly.

This court can give no opinion to any department of the government, nor can it decide upon or influence any subject that has not come before it as a regularly litigated case in law.

I began the practice of masturbation, at the age of sixteen, I was in the habit of exercising my voice regularly.

I did get up, and also I meditated regularly, and cleaned the house, but not out of my own free will.

Woodruff describes a child who began to menstruate at two years of age and continued regularly thereafter.