Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 32
Regimen (n.) (Gram.) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
Regimen (n.) (Gram.) The word or words governed.
Regimen (n.) (Medicine) A systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) [syn: regimen, regime].
Regiment (v. t.) To form into a regiment or into regiments. -- Washington.
Regiment (v. t.) To form into classified units or bodies; to systematize according to classes, districts or the like.
The people are organized or regimented into bodies, and special functions are relegated to the several units. -- J. W. Powell.
Regiment (v. t.) To organize and manage in a uniform and rigid manner; to control with a strict discipline.
Regiment (n.) [C] 【軍】團 [G]；（一）大群；大量 [P1] [（+of）] ；大量的人或物 Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen. [Obs.] -- Spenser. "Regiment of health." -- Bacon.
But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? -- Marlowe.
The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment. -- Hocker.
Regiment (n.) A region or district governed. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Regiment (n.) (Mil.) A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten.
Note: In the British army all the artillery are included in one regiment, which (reversing the usual practice) is divided into brigades.
Regiment of the line (Mil.), A regiment organized for general service; -- in distinction from those (as the Life Guards) whose duties are usually special. [Eng.]
Regiment (n.) Army unit smaller than a division.
Regiment (v.) 嚴格地管制，嚴密地編組 Subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization; "regiment one's children."
Regiment (v.) Form (military personnel) into a regiment.
Regiment (v.) Assign to a regiment; "regiment soldiers."
Regimented (imp. & p. p.) of Regiment.
Regimenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regiment.
Regimental (a.) Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing.
Regimental school, In the British army, a school for the instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education.
Regimental (a.) Belonging to or concerning a regiment; "regimental units."
Regimentally (adv.) In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally.
Regimentally (adv.) In a regimental manner or by regiments.
Regimentals (n. pl.) (Mil.) The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. -- Colman.
Regimentals (n.) The military uniform and insignia of a regiment.
Regiminal (a.) Of or relating to regimen; as, regiminal rules.
Region (n.) One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
If thence he 'scappe, into whatever world, Or unknown region. -- Milton.
Region (n.) Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere. "Though the fork invade the region of my heart." -- Shak.
Philip, tetrarch of .. the region of Trachonitis. -- Luke iii. 1.
Region (n.) The upper air; the sky; the heavens. [Obs.]
Anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. -- Shak.
Region (n.) The inhabitants of a district. -- Matt. iii. 5.
Region (n.) Place; rank; station. [Obs. or R.]
He is of too high a region. -- Shak.
Region (n.) The extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space" [syn: region, part].
Region (n.) A part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region" [syn: area, region].
Region (n.) A large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions."
Region (n.) The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'); "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100" [syn: region, neighborhood].
Region (n.) A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult" [syn: region, realm].
Regional (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
Regional (a.) Characteristic of a region; "regional flora."
Regional (a.) Related or limited to a particular region; "a regional dialect."
Regious (a.) Regal; royal.
Register (n.) A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
Register (n.) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.
Register (n.) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
Register (n.) One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds.
Register (n.) That which registers or records.
Register (n.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.
Register (n.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received.
Register (n.) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
Register (n.) A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated air, or for regulating ventilation.
Register (n.) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
Register (n.) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.
Register (n.) The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2.
Register (v. i.) The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register.
Register (v. i.) A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
Registered (imp. & p. p.) of Register.
Registering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Register.
Register (n.) To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
Register (n.) To enroll; to enter in a list.
Register (v. i.) To enroll one's name in a register.
Register (v. i.) To correspond in relative position; as, two pages, columns, etc. , register when the corresponding parts fall in the same line, or when line falls exactly upon line in reverse pages, or (as in chromatic printing) where the various colors of the design are printed consecutively, and perfect adjustment of parts is necessary.
Registering (a.) Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
Registership (n.) The office of a register.
Registrant (n.) One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark.
Registrar (n.) One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.
Registrarship (n.) The office of a registrar.
Registrary (n.) A registrar.
Registrate (v. t.) To register.
Registration (v.) The act of registering; registry; enrollment.
Registration (v.) The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.
Registry (n.) The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.
Registry (n.) The place where a register is kept.
Registry (n.) A record; an account; a register.
Regius (a.) Of or pertaining to a king; royal.
Regive (v. t.) To give again; to give back.
Regle (v. t.) To rule; to govern.
Reglement (n.) Regulation.
Reglementary (a.) Regulative.
Reglet (n.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column.
Reglet (n.) A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title-pages and other open matter. It is graded to different sizes, and designated by the name of the type that it matches; as, nonpareil reglet, pica reglet, and the like.
Regma (n.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle.
Regmacarp (n.) Any dry dehiscent fruit.
Regnal (a.) Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch; as, regnal years.
Regnancy (n.) The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule. -- Coleridge.
Regnant (a.) 在位的；佔優勢的；流行的 Exercising regal authority; reigning; as, a queen regnant.
Regnant (a.) Having the chief power; ruling; predominant; prevalent. "A traitor to the vices regnant." -- Swift.
Regnant (a.) Exercising power or authority [syn: regnant, reigning, ruling].
Regnant. () One having authority as a king; one in the exercise of royal authority.
Regnative (a.) Ruling; governing.
Regne (n. & v.) See Reign.
Regorge (v. t.) To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.
Regorge (v. t.) To swallow again; to swallow back.
Regrade (v. i.) To retire; to go back.
Regraft (v. t.) To graft again.
Regrant (v. t.) To grant back; to grant again or anew.
Regrant (n.) The act of granting back to a former proprietor.
Regrant (n.) A renewed of a grant; as, the regrant of a monopoly.
Regrated (imp. & p. p.) of Regrate.
Regrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regrate.
Regrate (v. t.) To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
Regrate (v. t.) To offend; to shock.
Regrate (v. t.) To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.
Regrater (n.) One who regrates.
Regratery (n.) The act or practice of regrating.
Regratiatory (n.) A returning or giving of thanks.
Regrator (n.) One guilty of regrating.
Regrede (v. i.) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit.
Regredience (n.) A going back; a retrogression; a return.
Regreet (v. t.) To greet again; to resalute; to return a salutation to; to greet.
Regreet (n.) A return or exchange of salutation.
Regress (n.) The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man."
Regress (n.) The power or liberty of passing back.
Regressed (imp. & p. p.) of Regress.
Regressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regress.
Regress (v. i.) To go back; to return to a former place or state.
Regress (v.) [ I ] (Formal) 退步；退化；倒退 To return to a previous and less advanced or worse state, condition, or way of behaving.
// She suffered brain damage from the car accident and regressed to the mental age of a five-year-old.
Compare: Progress (n.)
Progress (n.) [ U ] (B1) 進步，進展 Movement to an improved or more developed state, or to a forward position.
// Technological progress has been so rapid over the last few years.
// I'm not making much progress with my Spanish.
// The doctor said that she was making good progress (= getting better after a medical operation or illness).
// The recent free elections mark the next step in the country's progress towards democracy.
// The yacht's crew said that they were making relatively slow progress.
In progress (B2) (Formal) 正在進行中 Happening or being done now.
// Repair work is in progress on the south-bound lane of the motorway and will continue until June.
Progress (v.) [ I ] 進步；改進；進展 (B2) To improve or develop in skills, knowledge, etc.
// My Spanish never really progressed beyond the stage of being able to order drinks at the bar.
Compare: Regress (v.) [ I ]
Progress (v.) [ I ] (C2) 緩慢進行 To continue gradually.
// As the war progressed, more and more countries became involved.
// We started off talking about the weather and gradually the conversation progressed to politics.
Regression (n.) 退回；逆行；退化；復原；回歸 The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation. -- Sir T. Browne.
Edge of regression (of a surface) (Geom.), the line along which a surface turns back upon itself; -- called also a cuspidal edge.
Regression point (Geom.), A cusp.
Regression (n.) An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely [syn: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation, regression].
Regression (n.) (Psychiatry) A defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state.
Regression (n.) The relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) [syn: regression, simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression].
Regression (n.) Returning to a former state [syn: regression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion].
Regression, () A mathematical method where an empirical function is derived from a set of experimental data.
Regression, () Regression testing. (1995-03-14)
Regressive (a.) 後退的；逆行的；退化的；回歸的 Passing back; returning.
Regressive (a.) Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive.
Regressive metamorphism. (a) (Biol.) See Retrogression.
Regressive metamorphism. (b) (Physiol.) See Katabolism.
Regressive (a.) (Of taxes) Adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases [ant: progressive].
Regressive (a.) Opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state [ant: progressive].
Regressively (adv.) In a regressive manner.
Regret (n.) Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction. "A passionate regret
at sin." -- Dr. H. More.
What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe? -- Macaulay.
Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant. -- Clarendon.
From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. -- W. Irving.
Regret (n.) Dislike; aversion. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Syn: Grief; concern; sorrow; lamentation; repentance; penitence; self-condemnation.
Usage: Regret, Remorse, Compunction, Contrition, Repentance. Regret does not carry with it the energy of remorse, the sting of compunction, the sacredness of contrition, or the practical character of repentance. We even apply the term regret to circumstance over which we have had no control, as the absence of friends or their loss. When connected with ourselves, it relates rather to unwise acts than to wrong or sinful ones. -- C. J. Smith.
Regret (n.) Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game" [syn: sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulness].
Regret (v.) Feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about [syn: repent, regret, rue].
Regret (v.) Feel sad about the loss or absence of.
Regret (v.) Decline formally or politely; "I regret I can't come to the party."
Regret (v.) Express with regret; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard."
Regret (n.) [ C or U ] (B2) 懊悔，遺憾；惋惜；痛惜 A feeling of sadness about something sad or wrong or about a mistake that you have made, and a wish that it could have been different and better.
// I left school at 16, but I've had a great life and I have no regrets.
// The manager expressed deep regret at/for the number of staff reductions.
// We think, much to our regret (= and we are very sorry about this), that we will not be able to visit you next year.
Send (sb) your regrets （因為不能赴會等）（向某人）表示歉意，致歉辭謝 To send a polite message that you cannot go to a party, etc..
// We did have an invitation, but we had to send Graham our regrets.
Regret (v.) [ T ] (B1) 懊悔，遺憾；惋惜；痛惜 To feel sorry about a situation, especially something sad or wrong or a mistake that you have made.
// Is there anything you've done in your life that you regret?
// [ + -ing verb ] I have always regretted not having studied harder at school.
// [ + (that) ] (Formal) The council regrets (that) the money to subsidize the youth club is no longer available.
// [ + to infinitive ] (Formal) British Airways regret to announce the cancellation of flight BA205 to Madrid.
Regretted (imp. & p. p.) of Regret.
Regretting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regret.
Regret (v. t.) To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; to regret lost opportunities or friends.
Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear. -- Pope.
In a few hours they [the Israelites] began to regret their slavery, and to murmur against their leader. -- Macaulay.
Recruits who regretted the plow from which they had been violently taken. -- Macaulay.