Rehearsals

Definition

regular /'regjǝlǝ(r)/ adj ၁။ ပံုမွန္။ ပင္တိုင္(ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္)။ lampposts placed at regular intervals ❍ regular breathing ❍ a regular pulse/ heartbeat ❍ have regular habits/ follow a regular routine (ie do the same things at the same times every day) ❍ regular meetings/ visits/ payments ❍ The equipment is checked on a regular basis. ❍ She writes a regular column for a national newspaper. ၂။ ညီညာေသာ။ ဥႆံုညီ (ဗဟုဂံ စသည္)။ her regular teeth/ features ❍ jets flying in a regular formation. ၃။ (က) …ေနက်။ our regular customers/ readers/ listeners ❍ a regular offender (ie against the law) ❍ He was a regular visitor to her house. (ခ) … ေနက်။ my regular doctor/ dentist. ၄။ (က) ပံုမွန္။ taking regular exercise ❍ Strikes were a regular occurrence during the 1970s. ❍ She suffered regular abuse from her uncle. (ခ) ပံုမွန္။ ေရရွည္။ a regular job/ income ❍ She could find no regular employment. ၅။ မူမွန္။ အမွန္ အကန္။ သမား႐ိုးက်။ Those without regular visas were refused entry. ❍ He applied for the job through the regular channels (ie in the accepted way). ၆။ ( esp US ) ႐ိုး႐ိုးတန္းတန္း (ေပြလီဆန္းျပားမႈ မရိွေသာ)။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးသားသား။ a regular deck of cards ❍ He's just a regular guy. ၇။ ( esp US ) ပံုမွန္။ သာမန္ (အရြယ္အစား)။ Tubs of popcorn come in three sizes: small, regular and large. ၈။ အၿမဲတမ္း။ a regular soldier/ army ❍ regular troops. ၉။ ( grammar ) ပံုမွန္ (ႀကိယာ၊ နာမ္)။ The past participle of regular verbs ends in ‘-ed’. ၁၀။ ( infml often ironic ) (used for emphasis) တကယ့္။ It turned into a regular brawl. ❍ You're a regular little charmer, aren't you? n ၁။ အၿမဲတမ္းတပ္ဖြဲ႕ဝင္။ အၿမဲတမ္း တပ္မေတာ္ စစ္သည္။ ၂။ ( infml ) ပံုမွန္ (ေဖာက္သည္)။ He's one of our regulars. ❏ regularity /regju'lærǝti/ n [U] ပံုစံေနထား တက်ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ ပံုမွန္ျဖစ္ေပၚမႈ။ အခ်ိန္မွန္။ the striking regularity of her features ❍ the regularity of her daily routine/ her attendance at church ❍ Economic crises recur with monotonous regularity. ❏ regularly adv ၁။ (က) ပံုမွန္။ အခ်ိန္မွန္။ The cleaning lady arrives regularly at eight every morning. (ခ) မၾကာခဏ။ He regularly appears on television. ၂။ ေနထားတက်။ ညီညီညာညာ။ The garden is laid out regularly.

Examples

1. We hold regular monthly meetings.
2. [on a regular basis] : They come here on a regular basis.
3. [at regular intervals] : The flowers were placed at regular intervals of about four inches.
4. [be/keep in regular contact (with someone)] : I keep in regular contact with my sisters.
5. He was very handsome
6. with strong regular features.
7. Jason was a regular customer in the shop.
8. Regular exercise is essential for good health.
9. I can assure you that cheating is not a regular occurrence at this school.
10. The price of regular unleaded petrol is set to rise.
11. A cheeseburger and regular fries
12. Tim seems like a regular guy.
13. Regular verbs
14. Regular soldiers/troops