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word regular
definition
adjective
Regular events have equal amounts of time between them, so that they happen, for example, at the same time each day or each week .
Take regular exercise.
Now it's time for our regular look at the world of international sport.
We're going to be meeting there on a regular basis.
The cartridge must be replaced at regular intervals.
Exercise regularly.
He also writes regularly for 'International Management' magazine.
The system will provide details of loans, their size, regularity of payment and their status.
Regular events happen often.
This condition usually clears up with regular shampooing.
Fox, badger, weasel and stoat are regularly seen here.
Potentially dangerous bacteria are regularly sent from one laboratory to another.
Closures and job losses are again being announced with monotonous regularity.
If you are, for example, a regular customer at a shop or a regular visitor to a place, you go there often.
'Tell me, Mr Mentakis, was Mrs Savalas one of your regular customers?'.
She has become a regular visitor to Houghton Hall.
...people who are not regular churchgoers.
You use regular when referring to the thing, person, time, or place that is usually used by someone. For example, someone's regular place is the place where they usually sit .
The man sat at his regular table near the window.
...samples from one of their regular suppliers.
A regular rhythm consists of a series of sounds or movements with equal periods of time between them.
...a very regular beat.
He stood in the doorway, listening to her quiet, regular breathing.
Remember to breathe regularly.
Experimenters have succeeded in controlling the rate and regularity of the heartbeat.
Regular is used to mean 'normal'.
It looks and feels like a regular guitar.
He describes himself as just a regular guy from suburban Chicago.
In some restaurants, a regular drink or quantity of food is of medium size.
...a cheeseburger and regular fries.
A regular pattern or arrangement consists of a series of things with equal spaces between them.
...sandy hillocks that look as if they've been scattered in a regular pattern on the ground.
...regular rows of wooden huts.
If something has a regular shape, both halves are the same and it has straight edges or a smooth outline .
...some regular geometrical shape.
...the chessboard regularity of their fields.
Regular troops are professional soldiers who are a permanent part of an official national army.
Most schemes attempt to reduce the cost of defence through a smaller regular army.
Only about a third of the reinforcements will be regular troops.
...the presence of a garrison of British regulars.
In grammar, a regular verb, noun, or adjective inflects in the same way as most verbs, nouns, or adjectives in the language.
noun
The regulars at a place or in a team are the people who often go to the place or are often in the team.
Regulars at his local pub have set up a fund to help out.
I wasn't one of their regulars.
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