Regular vs Plan - 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)).
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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.
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(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.
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A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
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To design (a building, machine, etc.).
To create a plan for.
To intend.
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To make a plan.
As nouns the difference between regular and plan
is that regular is a member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve) while plan is a drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.As an adjective regular
is bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to {{term|secular}}).As a verb plan is
to design (a building, machine, etc.).As a proper noun PLAN is
the People's Liberation Army Navy.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.
References
plan
English
Noun
(en noun)- The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
- He didn't really have a plan ; he had a goal and a habit of control.
- Seen in plan , the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
- The simple plan , / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.
Usage notes
* A plan ("set of intended actions") can be developed, executed, implemented, ignored, abandoned, scrapped, changed, etc.Synonyms
* (drawing of a building from above): floor planDerived terms
* battleplan * floor plan * business plan * development plan * marketing plan * masterplan * game plan * contingency plan * action plan * escalation plan * lesson plan * plan A * plan B * price plan * rate planVerb
(plann)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}
