number one vs regular

number one

noun
  • A first lieutenant. 

  • The main goalkeeper of a team, so-called because they wear the number 1 on the back of their kit. 

  • The most important person, the one who is in charge. 

  • Urine; urination. 

  • A large town where theatrical performances may expect to achieve success. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see number, one. 

  • Oneself, being considered foremost, as by an egoist. 

  • Someone who is top of a ranking, who is ranked first. 

  • The batsman who opens the batting. 

  • The single that has sold the most in a given period. 

adj
  • First; foremost; best, often used after its headword. 

regular

noun
  • A member of an armed forces or police force. 

  • A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows. 

  • A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment. 

  • A frequent customer, client or business partner. 

  • A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls. 

  • A coffee with one cream and one sugar. 

  • A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month. 

  • A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve). 

  • Anything that is normal or standard. 

adj
  • Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular. 

  • Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard. 

  • Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape. 

  • Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular). 

  • Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence. 

  • Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright. 

  • Happening at constant (especially short) intervals. 

  • Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops. 

  • Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way. 

  • Riding with the left foot forward. 

  • Isometric. 

  • Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size 

  • Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other. 

  • Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language. 

  • Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance. 

  • Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity. 

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