‘ “It would be mostirregular Grandpa!” says Miss Cecily frowning and tapping her foot. “Well, we’re a prettyirregular family so that’s neither here nor there,” says the old man, impish like. [...] ’
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was anirregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
1980,AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page100:
Near by, where the crystal clear River Llugwy is crossed by a bridge, stands a small and ancient church built of massive,irregular boulders.
Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo anirregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, inModern Railways, page58:
The improvements will be most keenly felt across Lincolnshire, where currentirregular service patterns are more a function of operational convenience than passenger demand.
(geometry, of apolygon) Notregular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
(geometry, of apolyhedron) Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other).
(grammar, of a word) Not following theregular or expected patterns ofinflection in a given language.
"Calves", "cacti", and "children" areirregular plurals.
"To buy" is anirregular English verb: its past simple and past participle tense is "bought".
I hate learning all theirregular conjugations in French.
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There's one neighborhood tavern where the regulars andirregulars go after a hard day to unlax and rewind, throw back a few, and just hang out - you know the one.
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “yrregular”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
