regular vs sport

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. 

sport

noun
  • A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship. 

  • Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. 

  • A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question) 

  • Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy. 

  • A sportsman; a gambler. 

  • One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes. 

  • A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. 

  • Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing. 

  • Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport. 

  • A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects. 

verb
  • To display; to have as a notable feature. 

  • To close (a door). 

  • To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with. 

  • To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. 

  • To amuse oneself, to play. 

  • To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. 

  • To divert; to amuse; to make merry. 

  • To represent by any kind of play. 

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