Regular vs Commonplace - What's the difference?
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(Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to (secular)).
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, page 201:
Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
(geometry, of a polygon) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
(geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
* 2011 , (AL Kennedy), The Guardian , 12 Apr 2011:
(now, rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
(chiefly, US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
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, title= (chiefly, military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
(colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
Belonging to a monastic order or community.
(botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
(crystallography) isometric
(snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward. BBC Sport,
(analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
A frequent customer, client or business partner.
(Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
Anything that is normal or standard.
* 2011 , Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
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Ordinary; having no remarkable characteristics.
* 1824 , Sir (Walter Scott), , ch. 7:
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, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
* 1911 , (w), (Under Western Eyes) , ch. 1:
A platitude or .
* 1899 , , Active Service , ch. 17:
* 1910 , , His Hour , ch. 4:
Something that is ordinary.
* 1891 , , "A Case of Identity" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes :
A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
* Jonathan Swift
A commonplace book.
To make a commonplace book.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
* Felton
(obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
* 1910 , , His Hour , ch. 4:
As adjectives the difference between regular and commonplace
is that regular is while commonplace is ordinary; having no remarkable characteristics.As an adverb regular
is regularly.As a noun commonplace is
a platitude or.As a verb commonplace is
to make a commonplace book.regular
English
(wikipedia regular)Adjective
(en adjective)- A quarter of a million strong in 1680, the clergy was only half as large in 1789. The unpopular regular clergy were the worst affected.
- April may be the cruellest month, but I am planning to render it civilised and to take my antibiotics in a regular manner.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.}}
- regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy
- a regular''' flower; a '''regular sea urchin
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Synonyms
* (with constant frequency) uniform * (normal) normal * (grammar) weak (verbs) * (frequent) steadyAntonyms
* (with constant frequency) irregular * (normal) irregular * (obeying rules) irregular * (grammar) irregular, strong (verbs) * (snowboarding) goofyCoordinate terms
* (snowboarding) switchNoun
(en noun)- Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.
- This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars .
- You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars , some are shooters, and some are peewees.
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commonplace
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man."
- I could get hold of nothing but of some commonplace phrases, those futile phrases that give the measure of our impotence before each other's trials.
Synonyms
* routine * undistinguished * unexceptional * See alsoAntonyms
* distinguished * inimitable * uniqueNoun
(en noun)- Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly.
- And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.
- "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence."
- Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace .
Verb
(commonplac)- I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the historians.
- And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.
- (Francis Bacon)