a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
to relate to; concern: The news does not regard the explosion.
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to see, look at, or conceive of in a particular way; judge (usually followed by as): I regard every assignment as a challenge. They regarded his behavior as childish.
with/in regard to, referring to; concerning: With regard to the new contract, we have some questions.
Origin: 1350–1400; (noun) Middle English < Middle French, noun derivative of regarder to look at (compare reward); (v.) late Middle English < Middle French regarder.See re-, guard
Related forms
un·re·gard·ed, adjective
un·re·gard·ed·ly, adverb
well-re·gard·ed, adjective
Usage note Although sometimes considered poor substitutes for about or concerning, the phrases as regards,in regard to, and with regard to are standard and occur in all varieties of spoken and written English, especially in business writing: As regards your letter of January 19. … In regards to, and with regards to are widely rejected as errors.
mid-14c., from O.Fr. regard, from regarder "take notice of," from re-, intensive prefix + garder "look, heed" (see guard). Meanings "consideration, appearance, kindly feeling" all recorded late 14c. The verb is first attested early 15c., from M.Fr. regarder.