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regular

A regular event repeats after a similar amount of time or space. The best way to keep everyone happy is to have regular meetings. I call home on a regular basis. She lost all that weight through regular exercise. He rested at regular intervals throughout the day. The staff knows all the regular customers. There are rest stops at regular intervals along the trail. The colors were arranged in a regular pattern. A regular thing is the usual or common one, not special or different. They met at their regular time. These special students are in regular education classrooms but need extra help. This is the last regular-season game before the playoffs. Maybe if he acted more like regular people, he wouldn't have these problems. I don’t like regular flavor. A regular coffee or "coffee, regular" usually means with one milk and one sugar, but it means different things in different places. Regular gasoline has an octane rating between 85 and 88. The price of regular gas went up about 5 cents a litre over the weekend. A regular word follows the normal rules for marking tense, number, etc. In English, jump is a regular verb because it's past tense is -ed, but go is irregular. A regular shape has all angles and all sides equal. A stop sign is a regular octagon. If someone is regular, they defecate or menstruate at predictable times. You say X is a regular Y, to suggest that X is very much like Y in some important way, even though X is not actually Y. He's a regular jackass. (he's foolish) She's a regular Sherlock Holmes. (she's good at solving mysteries) According to his wife, he's a regular Olympian at the little games they play. (he wins all the games)

regular

A regular is a customer who comes often. He is a regular at the restaurant. He comes every day after work.

regular

in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle his regular calls on his customers regular meals regular duties (= veritable) often used as intensifiers a regular morass of details a regular nincompoop he's a veritable swine conforming to a standard or pattern following the regular procedure of the legislature a regular electrical outlet regularly scheduled for fixed times at a regular meeting of the PTA regular bus departures in accord with regular practice or procedure took his regular morning walk her regular bedtime (= steady) relating to a person who does something regularly a regular customer a steady drinker (= habitue, fixture) a regular patron an habitue of the racetrack a bum who is a Central Park fixture (= even) occurring at fixed intervals a regular beat the even rhythm of his breathing a dependable follower (especially in party politics) he is one of the party regulars a soldier in the regular army a garment size for persons of average height and weight officially full-time regular students not deviating from what is normal her regular bedtime (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces the regular army (= even) symmetrically arranged even features regular features a regular polygon (= unconstipated) not constipated

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Simple sentences

You must practice it at regular intervals.
Tom used to be a regular churchgoer.
I'm a regular at a restaurant in this neighborhood. Let's have lunch there today.
Fill it with regular, please.
Five gallons of regular, please.
There is no regular boat service to the island.
Regular attendance is required in that class.
The volcano erupts at regular intervals.
Everything at that store is 10 percent off the regular price.
Sixty percent of Japanese adult males drink alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
How is Null expressed as a regular expression?
The American tourist insisted on gelato, for he was too hipstery for regular ice cream.
Along the whole length of the pew hymnals are placed at regular intervals.
She's not among the regular employees of this company.
He has regular conversations with his wife.
Regular exercise is beneficial to good health.
My regular waitress wouldn't have anything to do with me.
Eleven o'clock is my regular time for going to bed.
I'm looking for some regular work.
He's a regular at the bars and pubs around here.
Is there any nutritional difference between soy and regular milk?
I'm just a regular office worker.
She visits the dentist on a regular basis, so she seldom gets toothaches.
Do you want dry cleaning or regular wash?
This is the regular procedure.
It's a regular madhouse here.

Movie subtitles

You'll be armed: this is a regular war zone.
A regular floating palace!
Let's get together and we'll make a regular hotel out of this place.
Damn it, you're a regular roadblock!
You have a very regular scale of wages, and there's the sick fund for you.
I'm a regular anchor around your neck.
It's a regular curio cabinet.
They have regular homes for orphans.
He'll eat regular from now on.
I believe this can be relieved by regular exercise.
Say, you're pretty regular, Lee.
Yeah, all except a few of our regular corporations.
Throwing us out of here is getting to be a regular habit.
He told me it was a regular paradise for killing.
Our troops just crushed the regular army of Abd el-Kader, who wanted to challenge us to a battle.
If I had any brains, I'd give up painting and get a regular job.
A regular tornado.
Dammit, you're a regular roadblock!
Sure, but nothing regular.
We'll reconvene at tomorrow night's regular faculty meeting.
He admit the whole thing like regular grown fella.
You are a de Boeldieu, a regular officer of the French Army.
And I a Rauffenstein, a regular officer of the Imperial German Army.
It's getting to be a regular routine.
He'll go with the regular passengers.
The regular dinner?
Do you have the result from the regular check up?
Why don't you drop in our regular haunt?
A regular lady killer.
Regular backs. Hmm?
You're a regular sheik, aren't you?
I want you to understand, this is not my regular job.
He's getting to be a regular little tyrant.
I had you sized up for a regular guy when I spotted you in the restaurant.
Will we get the regular percentage?
The reason I'm so fit is because of my regular moxa treatments.
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News and current affairs

We also need a regular scientific process to present the world with the evidence on species abundance and extinction, just as we now have such a process for climate change.
A regular mutual presence of the Secretary General of NATO and of the head of EU foreign policy in the councils of both organizations doesn't require much time and effort.
All of these groups have their respective professional associations, which hold regular meetings and establish certification standards that keep the information up-to-date and the practitioners ethical in their work.
Regular government to government meetings will tackle these matters.
The simplest form of growth-linked bonds would be a long-term government security that pays a regular dividend proportional to the GDP of the issuing country.
The decision, coming at the cabinet's regular meeting on February 15th, was not intended to coincide with Kim Jong-il's 63rd birthday the following day.
Direct action by demonstrations has become a regular and often effective occurrence.
In the past, the Geneva Convention prescribed how regular prisoners of war and members of irregular military forces should be treated when apprehended: they are not to be dealt with as criminals.
Its regular reports to the G-20 pull together the diverse strands of regulation in a clear and comprehensible way.
The scheme also provides regular funding, not currently available, to finance global public goods.
At the end of a day digging coal, teaching children, or waiting tables, Russians now want reasonable services, a logical tax system, and regular paychecks.
Regular workers enjoy secure and well-paid jobs, with much leisure time and little stress, particularly in the public sector.
The parade of gaffes and subsequent groveling apologies has become a regular feature of public life.
Recent methodological advances have enabled us to assess better what contributes to citizens' sense of well-being, and to gather the data needed to make such assessments on a regular basis.
Regulators must also stipulate that company reports be made available on a regular, timely basis, and that they are easily accessible and comparable across countries and other extractive companies.
During the period of implementation, they carried out regular supervisory missions supplemented by quarterly progress reports and annual audits.
For example, Brazil conducts IBSAMAR, a regular trilateral naval exercise, with South Africa and India.
That is more than the usual viewership for ESPN's Monday Night Football, the biggest regular television draw for fans of American football.
This was another urgent trip by Ban to a war-torn capital, as part of his regular duties as the UN's chief representative, seeking to uphold peace and restore global comity.
In the deadliest cases, regular screenings would not make much difference.
For cash-transfer schemes to work, they must be regular, predictable, and long term.
It has no rapid-reaction force and does not engage in regular political deliberations.
At one time, there were regular residents working at a bonito-drying facility.
For example, instead of dismissing Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's boasts of victory, many commentators around the world repeat and endorse his claim that Hezbollah fought much more bravely than the regular soldiers of Arab states in previous wars.
At this time of year, of course, many Christians who are not regular churchgoers attend the Nativity services.
So, without breaking the regular budget cycle, the DPJ will be forced to implement not only the supplementary budget drawn up by the LDP, but will also be stuck with next year's budget, which embodies LDP policies that the DPJ has denounced.
In fact, the government inexplicably replaced regular army troops with border police in 2010 to patrol the mountain-ringed plateau into which the PLA has now intruded.
While foreign companies have not been deliberately targeted, regular headlines of new killings hardly present a positive international image.

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