Regular vs Irregular
giovedì 21 ottobre 2010
lunedì 18 ottobre 2010
- REGULAR
- Dictionary:
- - belonging to a religious order
- - formed, built, arranged, or ordered according to some established rule,law, principle, or type
- - constituted, conducted, scheduled, or done in conformity with established or prescribed usages, rules, or discipline
- - conforming to the normal or usual manner of inflection
- Definition: mean being of the sort or kind that is expected as usual, ordinary, or average. Regular stresses conformity to a rule, standard, or pattern. Reguler, from L.L. regularis "continuing rules for guidance," from L. regula "rule," from "move in a straight line". Earliest sense was of religious orders (the opposite of secular). Extended 16c. to shapes, etc., that followed predictable or uniform patterns; sense of "normal" is from 1630s; Origin Middle English reguler, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin regularis regular, from Latin, of a bar, from regula rule — more at rule First Known Use: 14th century
IRREGULAR
- Dictionary:
- - lacking uniformity or symmetry; uneven in shape, position, arrangement, etc- differing from the normal or accepted practice or routine- not according to established standards of behaviour; unconventional
Definition : 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.
OriginMiddle English irreguler, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin irregularis not in accordance with rule, from Latin in- + regularis regular. First Known Use: 14th century
italian: regolare, irregolareserbian: pravilan, nepravilanenglesh: regular, irregularchinese: 定期, 不定期portuguese: regulares, irregularesrussian : регулярные, нерегулярныеarabic: العادية ، وغير النظاميةgreek: τακτικές, παράτυπεgerman: regelmäßige, unregelmäßigefranch: régulière, irrégulièredutch: regelmatige, onregelmatige
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