Irregular vs Unlike - What's the difference?
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Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
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Of a surface, rough.
Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
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Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other).
A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and, often, does not follow regular army tactics.
Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance.
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(archaic) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.
Differently from; not in a like or similar manner.
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To dislike.
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To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites
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As adjectives the difference between irregular and unlike
is that irregular is irregular while unlike is not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance.As a preposition unlike is
differently from; not in a like or similar manner.As a verb unlike is
to dislike.irregular
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(wikipedia irregular)Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight, passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus ) undergo an irregular , nomadic type of nocturnal migration.}}
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Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
Antonyms
* regularDerived terms
* irregular plural * irregular verbNoun
(en noun)unlike
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) unlic, unlich, from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- The brothers are quite unlike each other.
- They contributed in unlike amounts.
Preposition
(English prepositions)Etymology 2
From .Verb
(unlik)- I unliked the video link after I realized it was making fun of me.
On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8:
- Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like'' button. Toggling off the button results in ''unliking''''' your previously ''liked'' item. Note that this is different from ''disliking'' something, since '''''unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.
Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook", in rec.games.pinball, Usenet :
- My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking " stern pinball entirely.