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without
     1. adv. (archaic, or literary) Outside, externally.
     2. adv. Lacking something.
           Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.
     3. adv. (euphemism) In prostitution: without a condom being worn.
     4. prep. (archaic, or literary) Outside of, beyond.
           The snow was swirling without the cottage, but it was warm within.
     5. prep. Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
           It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat.
     6. prep. Not doing or not having done something.
           He likes to eat everything without sharing.
           He shot without warning anyone.
     7. conj. (archaic, otherwise nonstandard) Unless, except (introducing a clause).
regular
     1. adj. (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
           regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy
     2. adj. Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
     3. adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
     4. adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
     5. adj. Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
     6. adj. (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
     7. adj. Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
           He made regular visits to go see his mother.
     8. adj. (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language.
           The verb "to walk" is regular.
     9. adj. (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
     10. adj. (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
     11. adj. Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
           Maintaining a high-fibre diet keeps you regular.
     12. adj. (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
           a regular genius; a regular John Bull
     13. adj. (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
           a regular flower; a regular sea urchin
     14. adj. (crystallography) isometric
     15. adj. (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
     16. adj. (analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
     17. adv. (archaic, UK, dialect) Regularly, on a regular basis.
     18. n. A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
     19. n. A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
           Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.
     20. n. A frequent customer, client or business partner.
           This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars.
     21. n. (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
     22. n. Anything that is normal or standard.
     23. n. A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
     24. n. A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
     25. n. A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
form
     1. n. To do with shape.:
     2. n.          The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
     3. n.          A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
     4. n.          (dated) A long bench with no back.
     5. n.          (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
     6. n.          (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
     7. n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
     8. n.          An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
     9. n.          Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
     10. n.          Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
                   a republican form of government
     11. n.          Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
                   a matter of mere form
     12. n.          (archaic) A class or rank in society.
     13. n.          (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
     14. n.          (education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
     15. n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
           To apply for the position, complete the application form.
     16. n. Level of performance.
           The team's form has been poor this year.
           The orchestra was on top form this evening.
     17. n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
           participial forms;  verb forms
     18. n. The den or home of a hare.
     19. n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
     20. n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
     21. n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
     22. n. (geometry) A quantic.
     23. n. (sports) A specific way of performing a movement.
     24. v. To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
           When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
     25. v. To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
           Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
     26. v. (intransitive) To take shape.
           When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
     27. v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
           The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
           Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.
     28. v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
           By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
     29. v. To constitute, to compose, to make up.
           Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
     30. v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
           Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
     31. v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
     32. v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead pero
shapeless
     1. adj. without a clearly defined or identifiable shape
ugly
     1. adj. Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
     2. adj. Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
     3. adj. Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
           He played an ugly trick on us.
     4. adj. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
           an ugly temper; to feel ugly
     5. adj. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
           an ugly rumour; an ugly customer; an ugly wound
           With all this competition, expect things to get ugly.
     6. n. (slang) Ugliness.
     7. n. (slang) An ugly person or thing.
     8. n. (informal) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
     9. v. (transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).
deformed
     1. adj. Unusual of shape; misshapen.
     2. v. simple past tense and past participle of deform
     deform
          1. v. To change the form of, negatively.
          2. v. To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
                a face deformed by bitterness
          3. v. To mar the character of.
                a marriage deformed by jealousy
          4. v. To alter the shape of by stress.
          5. v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
          6. adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.
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