regular

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It may take 2-3 years to make it into regular phones, but when it does it will be huge.

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Quick take

a regular patron; "an habitue of the racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of regular gathered in one view.

noun

a regular patron; "an habitue of the racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture"

noun

a soldier in the regular army

noun

a dependable follower (especially in party politics); "he is one of the party regulars"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for regular.

noun

a regular patron; "an habitue of the racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture"

noun

a soldier in the regular army

noun

a dependable follower (especially in party politics); "he is one of the party regulars"

noun

a garment size for persons of average height and weight

adjective

in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle; "his regular calls on his customers"; "regular meals"; "regular duties"

adjective

often used as intensifiers; "a regular morass of details"; "a regular nincompoop"; "he's a veritable swine"

adjective

conforming to a standard or pattern; "following the regular procedure of the legislature"; "a regular electrical outlet"

adjective

regularly scheduled for fixed times; "at a regular meeting of the PTA"; "regular bus departures"

adjective

in accord with regular practice or procedure; "took his regular morning walk"; "her regular bedtime"

adjective

occurring at fixed intervals; "a regular beat"; "the even rhythm of his breathing"

adjective

relating to a person who does something regularly; "a regular customer"; "a steady drinker"

adjective

(used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces; "the regular army"

adjective

(of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula

adjective

not constipated

adjective

symmetrically arranged; "even features"; "regular features"; "a regular polygon"

adjective

not deviating from what is normal; "her regular bedtime"

adjective

officially full-time; "regular students"

Example sentences

It may take 2-3 years to make it into regular phones, but when it does it will be huge.

I ask people if they've "forked [person's] repo" on the regular.

The man must certainly own a pair of regular prescription glasses and was being extremely naive.

After a year of regular LSD use he was unable to form a coherent sentence.

Are you mean to your wife / husband on a regular or semi-regular basis?15.

They'd put the "Checkout as a regular member" link next to the "normal" checkout button and they'd make it just as big.

And no I didn't burn them I charged my regular rate, but I did work about 18 hours on it in a 24 hour period.

At a certain point you stop being able to just act like a regular person and have everything turn out fine.

"That's unfair to regular expressions, though, because I actually have seen them solve a problem before.

When these cameras make their way into regular phones, "worse is better" will suddenly become "better".

As a black programmer, I remember the cliche about problems and regular expressions in my head as "regular expressions are like calling the cops.

You have to become very aggressive now; it's not like a regular job where somebody else is doing the marketing and management for you and setting a schedule.

"As an Ubuntu user, I'm happy to see the project shifting its long-term goal from "dethroning Microsoft on the desktop" to "delivering the best possible experience for developers and regular people across all devices.

Some of these words, like "measure" or "continuous" make some intuitive sense, but how can "measure" be "continuous" with respect to some other measure, and what the hell is Lebesgue measure anyway?Now, if you're a mathematician, you know that Lebesgue measure in simple cases is just a natural notion of area or volume, but you also know that it's very useful to be able to measure much more complicated sets than just rectangles, polyhedrals, balls, and other similar regular shapes.