(a.) Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.
(a.) Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits.
(a.) Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops.
(a.) Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.
(a.) Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug.
(a.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.
(a.) Same as Isometric.
(a.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church.
(a.) A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
(3) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(4) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
(5) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
(6) Both mothers had been sniffing regularly throughout their pregnancies.
(7) Eight patients aged 7-15 were using inhaled sympathomimetic aerosols only at the time of buying a nebuliser as compared with most of the older patients, who were using regular oral steroids.
(8) When the first recordings of each of infants who died of SIDS, except one who had cyanotic episodes prior to death, were compared to recordings of survivors (six for each case) closely matched for age, gestation, and weight at birth, no differences in breathing patterns or heart or respiratory rates during regular breathing could be demonstrated.
(9) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
(10) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(11) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
(12) This technique is sensitive to the optical anisotropy within the muscle, including that due to intrinsic properties of the protein molecules as well as that due to the regular arrangement of proteins in the surrounding medium.
(13) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
(14) Finally, the contribution of regular dental attendance to periodontal health is discussed.
(15) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".
(16) During phase 1 (3-day equilibration period; ad libitum regular hospital diet), plasma choline levels were within the normal range for all subjects.
(17) The rationale for the use of exercise as part of the treatment program in type II diabetes is much clearer and regular exercise may be prescribed as an adjunct to caloric restriction for weight reduction and as a means of improving insulin sensitivity in the obese, insulin-resistant individual.
(18) Thresholds were measured for detecting perturbations in a regular lattice of dots by modulating local dot density, local dot luminance, or some combination of the two.
(19) Adverse events and life status were checked at regular intervals.
(20) The tryptic cores from H-2K and H-2D are regularly distinguishable from the thymus-leukemia antigens (TLA) by gel electrophoresis in one dimension.
Tessellate
Definition:
(v. t.) To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
(a.) Tessellated.
Example Sentences:
(1) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
(2) Cells, considered as polygons, site their division line according to stochastic rules, eventually forming a tessellation of the plane.
(3) The selected area of the section is covered by a tessellation of domains.
(4) In contrast, the regular tessellation tended to increase feature means and decrease feature variances.
(5) Parapapillary chorioretinal atrophy was associated with shallow glaucomatous cupping, diffuse nerve fiber loss, markedly tessellated fundus and only moderately elevated intraocular pressure.
(6) Current techniques in composite-block-structured grid generation and unstructured grid generation for general 3D geometries are summarized, including both algebraic and elliptic generation procedures for the former and Delaunay tessellations for the latter.
(7) Its tessellating properties have captivated mathematicians, engineers and sculptors, and Erdély has reinvented himself as the shape's globetrotting chaperon.
(8) The group's first single, Tessellate , an onomatopoeic puzzle of angular beats and pointed sexual advances, became a radio hit before anyone knew who they were.
(9) Also, distinctness of a tesselated fundus, frequency of optic disc haemorrhages and frequency of bared circumlinear or bared cilioretinal vessels did not differ significantly.
(10) A vesicle simulation and computer analysis program, VESICA, is described which employs spherical projections of triangularly tessellated icosahedra to produce molecular graphics models of the three-dimensional structures of lipid vesicles.
(11) The tessellated marble fountain in the courtyard in front of his church now has a hole the size of a large soup-plate.
(12) In fish 55-65 mm long, about 300 formed a tessellated array across each retina.
(13) Parapapillary chorioretinal atrophy was associated with shallow glaucomatous cupping, diffuse nerve fiber loss, a marked tessellated fundus, and only moderately elevated intraocular pressure.
(14) Especially when you consider the meaning behind the lyrics to their debut single, Tessellate .
(15) Consequently, the extracted features showed subtle but consistent differences, with decreasing anisotropic effects and data dispersion for the regular tessellation.
(16) The low-income suburb is a mix of public housing and new residential estates, whose tessellating culs-de-sacs brush up against horse paddocks and small farms.
(17) Expected to be general, these trends recommend use of the regular tessellation, especially when classification accuracy may depend on small differences in several similar geometric features.
(18) On solid materials migrated cells maintained their tessellated morphology and exhibited numerous micro-appendages anchoring them to the surface of the test materials.
(19) In addition, cells contacting others near the 45 degree diagonals were more readily segmented when the image was tessellated on the regular lattice.
(20) The few systems capable of processing hexagonally tessellated images have approximated this tessellation by using image data acquired on a rectangular sampling lattice, from which six of the eight image samples were selected from each local neighborhood.