regularly
part of speech
adverb
meaning for a pupil
1) Regularly means often and at the same times, again and again, like every day or every week. tree →
2) Evenly, with the same distance or time between things. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in health and everyday life: "Brush your teeth regularly", "exercise regularly". In science: water the plants regularly. In maths: regularly spaced points; "regular" shapes have equal sides and angles.
examples
- "Its form is simple and grave; there is nothing like a demonstration nor an argument; but it consists rather of a series of aphorisms, regularly grouped, and which have all the conciseness of the most ancient oracles." (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Brush your teeth regularly. tree →
- We go swimming regularly on Saturdays. tree →
- Water the plants regularly. tree →
- The trees were regularly spaced along the road. tree →
- She regularly reads before bed. tree →
- Wash your hands regularly to stop germs. tree →
- The bus comes regularly every ten minutes. tree →
- Yes, then I was a little wild boy, who did not go to school very regularly. tree →
note
Made from regular + -ly. Opposite: irregularly. "Regularly" does not always mean "very often"; it means at steady times.
In the corpora
- A repeat prescription is for medicine someone takes regularly, so they do not need to see the doctor every time.
- Cages and hutches need cleaning regularly; dirty bedding left for a month causes smells and illness.
- A "social drinker" is someone who drinks regularly with others, sometimes too much.
- Nurses check temperature, pulse and breathing regularly, even at night, and being woken for checks doesn't mean something is wrong.
- Children who regularly sleep well tend to catch fewer infections, though sleep doesn't cure everything.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «regularly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.