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sundry
English
Alternative forms
- sindry (dialectal)
- sondry (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sundry, sondry, sindry, from Old English syndri? (“separate, single; sundry, various, distinct; special, private, peculiar, exceptional, particular; characteristic; (distributive) one each”), from sundor (“asunder, apart, separately”); equivalent to sunder +? -y. Cognate with Low German sunderig (“single, special”), Middle High German sunderig (“separate, special, private”), Swedish söndrig (“broken, tattered”), Dutch zonderlijk (“separate”) and more common Dutch afzonderlijk (“separate”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?n.d?i/
Adjective
sundry
- (obsolete) Separate; distinct; diverse.
- (obsolete) Individual; one for each.
- Several; diverse; more than one or two; various.
- 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages / And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes / To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- Thereupon, quoth he, "O woman, for sundry days I have seen thee attend the levée sans a word said; so tell me an thou have any requirement I may grant."
- 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; miscellaneous.
Synonyms
- (separate): detached, loose; See also Thesaurus:separate
- (one for each): individual, personal, single
- (more than one or two): diverse, various; See also Thesaurus:heterogeneous
- (consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds): See also Thesaurus:assorted
Derived terms
- all and sundry
- sundrily
- sundriness
Related terms
- sunder
Noun
sundry (plural sundries)
- (usually in the plural) A minor miscellaneous item.
- 1865, Frances Freeling Broderip, Crosspatch, the Cricket, and the Counterpane, page 16,
- Here she kept her scarlet cloak, her Sunday shoes, her best cap and apron, and her steeple-crowned hat; but down at the very bottom, underneath her new checked petticoat, she found a little bag of sundries, which might serve her purpose, and which she sat down to examine at her leisure.
- 1924 March, Advertisement, Popular Mechanics, page 192,
- Our big free catalog illustrates and describes parts, equipment and sundries that our more than a million riders may need.
- 1931 June, Advertisement, Boys? Life, page 54,
- It pays you to buy from Bicycle Specialists We have been in business 40 years, and can offer you positively the lowest prices for high-grade bicycles, tires and sundries.
- 1865, Frances Freeling Broderip, Crosspatch, the Cricket, and the Counterpane, page 16,
- (in the plural, accounting) A category for irregular or miscellaneous items not otherwise classified.
- 1905, William Mott Steuart (United States Bureau of the Census), Special Reports: Mines and quarries 1902, page 476,
- Miscellaheous expenses,—This item includes rent and royalties of all descriptions, “taxes, insurance, interest, advertising, office supplies, law expenses, injuries and damages, telegraph and telephone service, gas, and all other sundries not reported elsewhere.”
- 1910, William Mott Steuart, Thomas Commerford Martin (United States Bureau of the Census), Street and Electric Railways 1907, page 181,
- In 1902 franchise values were largely carried as sundries, but it is a very common practice to charge these values to cost of construction and equipment.
- 2009, Neville Box, VCE Accounting Units 3 & 4, 4th Edition, unnumbered page,
- Any payment listed in the Sundries column must be posted individually to the appropriate ledger account.
- 2011, Robert Rodgers, Peter Lucas, Bookkeeping and Accounting Essentials, page 105,
- The petty cash book classifies payments as petrol and oils, postage, office, sundries and GST paid.
- 1905, William Mott Steuart (United States Bureau of the Census), Special Reports: Mines and quarries 1902, page 476,
- (usually in the plural, cricket, chiefly Australia) An extra.
- 1954, Percy Taylor, Richmond?s 100 years of cricket: The Story of the Richmond Cricket Club, 1854-1954, unidentified page,
- The wicketkeeper for Williamstown had a bad day, as sundries topped the score with 30.
- 1998, Donald Bradman, The Art of Cricket, page 167,
- In the modern era I sometimes feel the emphasis has erroneously shifted towards placing unwarranted importance on how few sundries are recorded.
- 1999, Ashok Kumar, DPH Sports Series: Cricket, Discovery Publishing House, India, page 145,
- As for sundries, these are very often caused by erratic bowling or a nasty pitch.
- 1954, Percy Taylor, Richmond?s 100 years of cricket: The Story of the Richmond Cricket Club, 1854-1954, unidentified page,
Derived terms
- sundryman
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irregular
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French irreguler, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin irr?gul?ris, from in- + regularis, equivalent to ir- +? regular.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?????j?l?/
Adjective
irregular (comparative more irregular, superlative most irregular)
- nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations
- (of a surface) rough
- without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity
- (geometry, of a polygon) not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other)
- (grammar, of a word) not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language
Synonyms
- (nonstandard): abnormal, singular; see also Thesaurus:strange
- (rough): coarse, salebrous; see also Thesaurus:rough
- (without uniformity): unstable, unsteady; see also Thesaurus:unsteady
- (not following the regular patterns of inflection): heteroclite
Antonyms
- regular
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
irregular (plural irregulars)
- A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and who may not use regular army tactics.
- One who does not regularly attend a venue.
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin irr?gul?ris.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /i.r?.?u?la/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /i.re.?u?la?/
Adjective
irregular (masculine and feminine plural irregulars)
- irregular
- Antonym: regular
Derived terms
- irregularment
Related terms
- irregularitat
Further reading
- “irregular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “irregular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “irregular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “irregular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin irr?gul?ris.
Adjective
irregular m or f (plural irregulares)
- irregular
- Antonym: regular
Related terms
- irregularidade
Further reading
- “irregular” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin irr?gul?ris.
Adjective
irregular m or f (plural irregulares, comparable)
- irregular; nonstandard
- (grammar) irregular (not following an inflectional paradigm)
Antonyms
- regular
Derived terms
- irregularmente
Related terms
- irregularidade
Further reading
- “irregular” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin irr?gul?ris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ire?u?la?/, [i.re.??u?la?]
Adjective
irregular (plural irregulares)
- irregular, uneven, erratic, haphazard
- patchy, spotty, jagged, ragged
- fitful
- (grammar) (of a verb etc.) irregular
- Antonym: regular
Derived terms
- verbo irregular
Related terms
- irregularidad
- regular
Further reading
- “irregular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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