guerrillanoun

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Soldiers & people who fight in wars
anti-guerrilla
Anzac
berserker
capability
cavalryman
citizen soldier
comrade
ex-serviceman
foot soldier
grenadier
paramilitary
raider
recruit
scout
shogun
skirmisher
soldier of fortune
unsoldierly
vassal
war party

irregular | American Dictionary

irregular
adjective
us/ɪˈreɡ·jə·lər/

irregularadjective (SHAPE)

not regular in shape or form; having parts of different shapes or sizes:
an irregular surface

irregularadjective (TIME/SPACE)

not happening at regular times, or not having usual or regular spaces in between:
There are irregular spaces between the words.
He showed up at irregular intervals.

irregularadjective (RULE)

(of behavior or actions) not according to usual rules or what is expected
grammar
An irregular verb, noun, adjective, or other type of word does not obey the usual rules in the language for changing word endings.

irregular | Business English

irregular
adjective
uk /ɪˈreɡjələr/us
not happening at regular times or in regular amounts:
Many firms have an irregular cashflow.
You will not be penalised for contributing irregular amounts, or missing or stopping payments.
Airport staff inspect the runways three times a day at irregular intervals.
not according to usual rules or what is expected, and often not acceptable:
Investigators found these bank deposits to be highly irregular because the amount exceeded the man's income.
Certain irregular business practices were identified.

Examples of irregular

irregular
First, we chose the real regulars and irregulars to cover a wide stem and past tense frequency range.
Of the 104 irregulars, 93% (97 items) were past-marked, and the remaining 7% (7 items) were unmarked.
In prefrontal cortex, regulars but not irregulars showed an activation decrease, compared to fixation.
Failure to produce regularized past-marked forms of novel irregulars (crive-crived).
There were two perfect or passive forms produced (given, bitten) for irregulars.
Moreover, this distinction between regulars and irregulars was supported by the effect size values, which were much larger for regulars than for irregulars (column 5).
The posterior aphasics, like healthy subjects, showed past-tense frequency effects for irregulars, but not for regulars.
Whole word forms for both irregulars and regulars might initially be stored unanalyzed.
Consider a very simple example in which the learner is given a corpus of regular present and past tense verbs, along with a few irregulars.
In associative single-mechanism as well as in dual-mechanism accounts, irregulars are claimed to be stored as full forms in memory.
No areas were more activated for regulars than irregulars when the past tense forms were matched on this variable.
They argued that this was evidence for a specific deficit in irregulars.
Four of the five impaired subjects produced irregularizations of novel irregulars at the same or a higher rate as novel regulars.
In addition, this coding did not reveal a single unmarked form for regulars, irregulars, or novel regulars.
The initial coding of 93% correctly past-marked real irregulars was confirmed.
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