(a.) Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular.
(n.) One who is not regular; especially, a soldier not in regular service.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
(2) They were more irregularly curved and consisted of various substances.
(3) The results of the measurements permitted the identification of five main cytologic types, with regard to nuclear size, nuclear area dispersion and irregularity of nuclear profiles.
(4) A detailed stereochemical analysis of known protein structures has been made which shows that: (1) irregular regions of proteins consist of a limited number of standard structures formed by three, four of more residues; (2) an amino acid residue of a protein can adopt one of the six sterically allowed conformations designated here as alpha, alpha L, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon.
(5) Endoscopy showed an irregular erosion of 4 by 2 cm, from which biopsies were taken.
(6) Aside from typical nuclear spheroids, irregularly shaped nuclei were frequently seen, associated with increased nuclear folds, transitional stages between nuclear folds and nuclear spheroids were also present.
(7) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
(8) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
(9) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
(10) In contrast, mean diameter of normal epicardial coronary artery tended to decrease and that of irregular epicardial coronary artery decreased significantly after intracoronary injection of acetylcholine.
(11) These findings are in agreement with the concept that irregular lesions represent ruptured atherosclerotic plaques and demonstrate that they usually originate from mildly occlusive smooth plaques.
(12) After 21 months, there appears to be no correlation between the amount of material adhering to the IUD and method complications (irregular and excessive bleeding) or method failure (pregnancy).
(13) The patient described in this report has the classic findings of Bardet-Biedl syndrome in conjunction with tibia vara and irregular physes of the lower extremities.
(14) After cessation her previously regular menstrual periods became very irregular and complete amenorrhea had lasted 4 months.
(15) Histochemical and electron-microscopic observations on a 30-month-old child with Hurler syndrome showed marked irregularities in chondrocyte orientation within the growth plate, along with disruption of the normal columnar architecture.
(16) The endocrine pattern and ovarian characteristics of 110 healthy adolescents with menstrual irregularities were investigated during the early follicular and premenstrual phases and were compared to those of 14 adolescents with regular menstrual cycles and 20 adults.
(17) Hypertrophy of the satellite cells with increase in the perineuronal intercellular spaces, often associated with irregular, scalloped nuclear and cell outlines, suggested that neuron shrinkage had occurred.
(18) Light microscopic examination of irregularly thickened white and black portions of abnormal scales demonstrated two distinctive populations of pigment-containing cells.
(19) In the second hypertrophied form [Type II], the endoplasmic reticulum is very prominent and occurs as a series of grossly dilated sacs of irregular shape.
(20) Disruption of the rhythmic activity of the inspiratory neurons and its replacement by a continuous and irregular discharge may lead to sustained contraction of inspiratory muscles and cessation of respiration.
Rhapsody
Definition:
(n.) A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.
(n.) A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition.
(n.) A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies."
Example Sentences:
(1) I popped in for a nightcap but end up staying for two hours, serenaded by locals murdering everything from Japanese power ballads to cheesy Brazilian pop and Bohemian Rhapsody.
(2) Although the band's previous albums are available, songs like Paradise and Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall are nowhere to be found on Spotify , nor on competitors like Rdio and Rhapsody .
(3) You had to go back to the year 1975, when Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts, to find the last time Britain was in a double-dip recession – and Freddie Mercury's lyrics seemed particularly apposite for the many City analysts left with egg on their face by the dire performance of the economy in the first three months of 2012.
(4) Swift has spoken previously about her allegiance to other online services, such as Beats Music and Rhapsody, both of which require a premium package in order to access albums.
(5) Spotify’s rivals in the streaming music market include Deezer, which has 12m active users and 5m paying subscribers , and Rhapsody, which has 1.7m paying subscribers around the world, split between its Rhapsody and Napster brands.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bohemian Rhapsody The whole thing is genius, but Piggy's ending will change the way you hear the original version of this song, for ever.
(7) The page is a mixture: of meme-style science illustrations (an image of floating, sleeping otters overlaid with the words: "Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift away from each other… they also rape baby seals to death"); of plain-speaking summaries of the latest research ("Researchers have discovered how and where imagination originates in the brain"); and of links to oddities such as a video of a student singing an explanation of string theory to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody.
(8) By comparison, Spotify has 40m active users including 10m paying subscribers; Deezer has 16m active users including 5m paying subscribers, and Rhapsody has 1.7m paying subscribers split between its service in the US, and its Napster subsidiary elsewhere in the world.
(9) Queen hit the big time in 1975 with their fourth album, A Night at the Opera, which included the Mercury-composed anthem Bohemian Rhapsody.
(10) October 31, 2013 *blasts "Bohemian Rhapsody"* 3.12am GMT Cardinals 1 - Red Sox 6, bottom of the 8th Matheny decides just to intentionally walk David Ortiz one again just for old time's sake.
(11) Schuller is also conducting Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the RSNO.
(12) Recorded at the new Paisley Park studio he had built in 1986 on the outskirts of Minneapolis, Sign was devilishly eclectic, travelling from the doom-saying title track - an unsettling mix of hypnotic electro rhythm, bluesy guitar and fragile, semi-rapped lyric - to the Philly rhapsody of 'Adore' via the frantic power pop of 'I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man'.
(13) For him the next two lines of Bohemian Rhapsody – "caught in a landslide, no escape from reality" – were the ones that sprang to mind following the baleful news from the Office for National Statistics.
(14) She earned $54.40 from 7,908 plays on US service Rhapsody at 0.69 cents per stream, although that included mechanical royalties payments for writing the songs as well as performing them.
(15) iTunes Radio will not be a direct competitor for streaming music services like Spotify, Deezer, Rhapsody and Rdio.
(16) Since the publication of Johann Reil's, Rhapsodies About the Application of Psychotherapy to Mental Disturbances (1803), variations upon this theme of extravagant discourse have received enthusiastic welcomes from the ever enlarging psychiatric audience for whom they are performed...
(17) Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody, this was released as her first single at Bush's insistence in the face of opposition from seasoned and cautious EMI executives; wilfulness vindicated by the month it spent at the top of the charts.
(18) Sonos, for example, has partnerships with Deezer, Rdio, Rhapsody, Pandora, Napster and other digital music services.
(19) The spreadsheet includes payments from Apple's iTunes Match and Amazon's Cloud Drive – 0.2 and 0.05 cents per stream respectively, although as services that let people stream music they already own from cloud lockers, these represent different licensing deals to Spotify, Rhapsody and Xbox Music.
(20) It is the tale of a sentimental saint who began with an inexhaustible supply of human sympathy and produced a handful of powerful but gloomy pictures; who moved to Paris, where he cleaned up his palette, shed some of his sentiment, and became a moderately respectable impressionist; who moved thence to Arles, where he burst, for two hectic years, into flame, and painted the radiant yellow, green, and blue rhapsodies by which we know him; who outlived his stamina but not his passion, and became in St. Rémy and in Auvers exaggeratedly hectic, though the fierce radiance of his colour never deserted him.