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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
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective regular
is .As an adverb regular
is regularly.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.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
"Sochi 2014: A jargon-busting guide to the halfpipe", 11 February 2014
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.
References
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English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.