Contextualizebeta

regularize

verb
/ˈɹɛɡjəlɚaɪz/

Etymology

From regular + -ize.

  1. derived from *h₃reǵ-✻ — “move in a straight line”
  2. derived from rēgulāris — “continuing rules for guidance”
  3. derived from reguler
  4. derived from reguler
  5. inherited from reguler
  6. suffixed as regularize — “regular + ize”

Definitions

  1. To make regular.

    • Regularizing spelling was an important step in the advancement of literary society.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for regularize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA