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REGULARISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does regularise mean?
• REGULARISE (verb)
The verb REGULARISE has 2 senses:
1. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
2. make regular or more regular
Familiarity information: REGULARISE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: regularised
Past participle: regularised
-ing form: regularising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
govern; order; regularise; regularize; regulate
Context example:
This town likes to regulate
Hypernyms (to "regularise" is one way to...):
decide; determine; make up one's mind (reach, make, or come to a decision about something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regularise"):
standardise; standardize (cause to conform to standard or norm)
district; zone (regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make regular or more regular
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
regularise; regularize
Context example:
regularize the heart beat with a pace maker
Hypernyms (to "regularise" is one way to...):
arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regularise"):
even; even out (make even or more even)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
regularisation (the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular)
regularisation (the condition of having been made regular (or more regular))
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