Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word REGULAR

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Definitions of REGULAR

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. Anything that is normal or standard.
5. A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. A member of an armed forces or police force.
9. (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular). [from 14th c.]
10. Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance. [from 15th c.]
11. (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.]
12. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
13. Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence. [from 16th c.]
14. (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
15. (now, rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.). [from 16th c.]
16. Happening at constant (especially short) intervals. [from 17th c.]
17. (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language. [from 17th c.]
18. (chiefly, US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard. [from 17th c.]
19. (chiefly, military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops. [from 17th c.]
20. Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way. [from 18th c.]
21. (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright. [from 18th c.]
22. (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
23. (crystallography) Isometric.
24. (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
25. (analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
26. (archaic, dialect, nonstandard) Regularly, on a regular basis.
27. (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.

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Examples of Using REGULAR in a Sentence

• The language extensively uses the string datatype, associative arrays (that is, arrays indexed by key strings), and regular expressions.
• The Archimedean solids are a set of thirteen convex polyhedra whose faces are regular polygons, but not all alike, and whose vertices are all symmetric to each other.
• Those of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Scandinavian Lutheran, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, Church of the East, Hussite, Moravian, and Old Catholic traditions maintain that "a bishop cannot have regular or valid orders unless he has been consecrated in this apostolic succession".
• The most significant aspect of asynchronous communications is that data is not transmitted at regular intervals, thus making possible variable bit rate, and that the transmitter and receiver clock generators do not have to be exactly synchronized all the time.
• the British Army comprises 74,296 regular full-time personnel, 4,244 Gurkhas, 25,934 volunteer reserve personnel and 4,612 "other personnel", for a total of 109,086.
• The beta sheet (β-sheet, also β-pleated sheet) is a common motif of the regular protein secondary structure.
• The first supper was held in memoriam at Burns Cottage in Ayrshire by Burns's friends, on 21 July 1801, the fifth anniversary of his death; it has been a regular occurrence ever since.
• There are regular flights between the major islands (Santiago, Sal and São Vicente), with less frequent flights to the other islands.
• In geometry, a cube or regular hexahedron is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six congruent square faces, a type of polyhedron.
• Many chiropractors (often known informally as chiros), especially those in the field's early history, have proposed that mechanical disorders of the joints, especially of the spine, affect general health, and that regular manipulation of the spine (spinal adjustment) improves general health.
• A crystallographic defect is an interruption of the regular patterns of arrangement of atoms or molecules in crystalline solids.
• Records of births, deaths, marriages, immigration and emigration and a regular census of population provide information that is key to making sound decisions about national policy.
• The most well-known of these patterns consists of regular broken chords, with the lowest note sounding first, then the highest, then the middle and then the highest again, with the pattern repeated.
• The most familiar dodecahedron is the regular dodecahedron with regular pentagons as faces, which is a Platonic solid.
• He studied at Munich, and at an early age joined the Canons Regular at Polling, where, shortly after his ordination in 1717, he taught theology and philosophy.
• It has application programming interfaces (APIs) for working with text, dates, regular expressions, standard data structures, and the Document Object Model (DOM).
• Starting with Explorer 6, it has been operated by NASA, with regular collaboration with a variety of other institutions, including many international partners.
• EDSAC was the second electronic digital stored-program computer, after the Manchester Mark 1, to go into regular service.
• The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly known simply as the Orthodox Church is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
• Esperanto is the most widely used constructed language intended for international communication; it was designed with highly regular grammatical rules, and is therefore considered easy to learn.
• In his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime.
• The first two regular battalions of the Fiji Infantry Regiment are traditionally stationed overseas on peacekeeping duties; the 1st Battalion has been posted to Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and East Timor under the command of the UN, while the 2nd Battalion is stationed in Sinai with the MFO.
• 1096 – Pope Urban II confirms the foundation of the abbey of La Roë under Robert of Arbrissel as a community of canons regular.
• Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech.
• The first regular military was established in the first Georgian Republic in 1918 and was in existence until after the republic's overthrow by the invading Soviet Russian forces in 1921.

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