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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔːl.weɪz/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.weɪz/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔːl.wɪz/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈoː.wɛjz/
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• Northumbria: /ˈaː.wɪz/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈɑl.weɪz/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈɑl.wɪz/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈɑl.wiːz/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈɑl.wəz/
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• /ˈɔl.weɪz/ without the cot–caught merger
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• /ˈɔl.wɪz/ without the cot–caught merger
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• /ˈɔl.wəz/ without the cot–caught merger
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• Southern-US: /ˈɔləs/ see allus
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• Canada: [ˈɔː(ɫ)we(ɪ)z]
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• Canada: [-wɪz]
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• Canada: [-wɛs]
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• rhymes with -ɔːlweɪz
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• rhymes with -ɔːlwiz
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• rhymes with -ɔːlwɪz
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• CMU ARPABET: AO1 L W EY2 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: AO1 L W IY0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h2elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-West Germanic *all Old English eall Proto-Indo-European *weǵh-der. Proto-Germanic *wegaz Proto-West Germanic *weg Old English weġ Old English ealneġ Middle English alwey Proto-Germanic *-as Proto-West Germanic *-as Old English -es Middle English -es Middle English alweyes English always From Middle English alweyes, alwayes, alweys, a variant of Middle English alwey, alway (“always”), from Old English ealneġ, ealne weġ (“always, perpetually”, literally “all the way, all the while, continuously”), from ealne + weġ (accusative case), equivalent to alway + -s. Cognate with Scots always (“always”), Low German allerwegens (“very often”, literally “all ways'”). More at all, way.

367 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: altyd — at all times
• Albanian: gjithmonë — at all times
• Alviri-Vidari: همیشه (hammiše) — at all times
• Amharic: ሁልጊዜ (hulgize) — at all times
• Arabic: دَائِمًا (dāʔiman) — at all times
• Arabic: أَبَدًا (ʔabadan) — at all times
• Arabic: دَوْمًا (dawman) — at all times
• Arabic: دَوْمًا مَا (dawman mā) — at all times
• Arabic: دايمًا (dāyman) — at all times
• Arabic: تملّي (tamallī) — at all times
• Arabic: على طول (ʼala ṭūl) — at all times
• Arabic: دايمًا (dāyman) — at all times
• Arabic: على طول (ʼala ṭūl) — at all times
• Arabic: ديما (dīma) — at all times
• Arabic: دايْماً (dēyman) — at all times
• Arabic: دايْماً (dāyman) — at all times
• Tunisian Arabic: ديما (dīma) — at all times
• Aragonese: siempre — at all times
• Armenian: միշտ (mišt) — at all times
• Armenian: հավետ (havet) — at all times
• Aromanian: totãnã — at all times
• Aromanian: tutdiunã — at all times
• Aromanian: tutauna — at all times
• Asturian: siempre — at all times
• Atong (India): phangnan — at all times
• Azerbaijani: həmişə — at all times
• Azerbaijani: hər zaman — at all times
• Azerbaijani: daim — at all times
• Bashkir: һәр ваҡыт (hər vaqıt) — at all times
• Bashkir: һәр ҡасан (hər qasan) — at all times
• Bashkir: гел (gel) — at all times
• Basque: beti — at all times
• Belarusian: заўсёды (zawsjódy) — at all times
• Belarusian: заўжды́ (zawždý) — at all times
• Bengali: হামেশা (hameśa) — at all times
• Bengali: সর্বদা (śorboda) — at all times
• Bhojpuri: हरदम (harədam) — at all times
• Central Bikol: pirmi — at all times
• Bislama: oltaem — at all times
• Breton: atav — at all times
• Bulgarian: ви́наги (vínagi) — at all times
• Bulgarian: вся́кога (vsjákoga) — at all times
• Burmese: အမြဲ (a.mrai:) — at all times
• Burmese: အမြဲတမ်း (a.mrai:tam:) — at all times
• Burmese: အမြဲတစေ (a.mrai:ta.ce) — at all times
• Burmese: အစဉ် (a.cany) — at all times
• Burmese: ထာဝရ (htawa.ra.) — at all times
• Burmese: ထာဝစဉ် (htawa.cany) — at all times
• Catalan: sempre — at all times
• Chamicuro: mayepalala — at all times
• Cherokee: ᏂᎪᎯᎸᎢ (nigohilvi) — at all times
• Cherokee: ᏂᎪᎸ (nigolv) — at all times
• Chickasaw: bíyyi'ka — at all times
• Chinese Cantonese: 成日 (seng4 jat6) — at all times
• Chinese Mandarin: 總是 /总是 (zǒngshì) — at all times
• Chuvash: ялан (jalan) — at all times
• Cornish: pub prys — at all times
• Crimean Tatar: daim — at all times
• Crimean Tatar: er vaqıt — at all times
• Crimean Tatar: müddem — at all times
• Czech: vždy — at all times
• Dalmatian: siampro — at all times
• Dalmatian: siampre — at all times
• Dalmatian: sianpro — at all times
• Danish: altid — at all times
• Dutch: altijd — at all times
• Dutch: steeds — at all times
• Esperanto: ĉiam — at all times
• Estonian: alati — at all times
• Evenki: окин-да (okin-da) — at all times
• Ewe: ɣesiaɣi — at all times
• Faroese: altíð — at all times
• Faroese: alla tíðina — at all times
• Finnish: aina — at all times
• Finnish: alati — at all times
• Finnish: ikuisesti — at all times
• Finnish: iäti — at all times
• French: toujours — at all times
• West-Frisian: jimmer — at all times
• Friulian: simpri — at all times
• Galician: sempre — at all times
• Georgian: ყოველთვის (q̇oveltvis) — at all times
• Georgian: მუდამ (mudam) — at all times
• Georgian: მარად (marad) — at all times
• German: immer — at all times
• German: stets — at all times
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍅 (aiw) — at all times
• Greek: πάντα (pánta) — at all times
• Ancient Greek: ἀεί (aeí) — at all times
• Ancient Greek: πάντοτε (pántote) — at all times
• Ancient Greek: διὰ παντός (dià pantós) — at all times
• Pontic Greek: πάντα (pánta) — at all times
• Haitian Creole: toujou — at all times
• Hawaiian: nā manawa apau loa — at all times
• Hebrew: תָּמִיד (tamíd) — at all times
• Hindi: हमेशा (hameśā) — at all times
• Hindi: सदा (sadā) — at all times
• Hindi: नित्य (nitya) — at all times
• Hindi: निरंतर (nirantar) — at all times
• Hungarian: mindig — at all times
• Icelandic: alltaf — at all times
• Ido: sempre — at all times
• Ido: omnatempe — at all times
• Indonesian: selalu — at all times
• Ingrian: ain — at all times
• Ingrian: ikkää — at all times
• Interlingua: semper — at all times
• Irish: i gcónaí — at all times
• Irish: i dtólamh — at all times
• Old Irish: do grés — at all times
• Istriot: senpro — at all times
• Italian: sempre — at all times
• Japanese: いつも (itsu mo) — at all times
• Kabyle: dima — at all times
• Kabyle: bda — at all times
• Kabyle: baqi — at all times
• Kashubian: wiedno — at all times
• Kashubian: wcyg — at all times
• Kazakh: әрдайым (ärdaiym) — at all times
• Kazakh: әрқашан (ärqaşan) — at all times
• Khmer: ជាដរាប (jie dɑɑ riep) — at all times
• Khmer: ជានិច្ច (jie nɨch) — at all times
• Korean: 항상 (hangsang) — at all times
• Korean: 늘 (neul) — at all times
• Korean: 언제나 (eonjena) — at all times
• Central Kurdish: ھەمیشە (hemîşe) — at all times
• Northern Kurdish: herdem — at all times
• Northern Kurdish: hergav — at all times
• Northern Kurdish: hertim — at all times
• Northern Kurdish: daîme — at all times
• Kyrgyz: дайыма (dayıma) — at all times
• Kyrgyz: ар качан (ar kacan) — at all times
• Kyrgyz: ар убакытта (ar ubakıtta) — at all times
• Kyrgyz: ар дайым (ar dayım) — at all times
• Kyrgyz: ылайым (ılayım) — at all times
• Lao: ຕະຫລອດມາ (ta lǭt mā) — at all times
• Lao: ຕະຫລອດເມື່ອ (ta lǭt mư̄a) — at all times
• Lao: ຍັ່ງ (nyang) — at all times
• Latin: semper — at all times
• Latvian: vienmēr — at all times
• Ligurian: sénpre — at all times
• Limburgish: ummer — at all times
• Limburgish: altied — at all times
• Lithuanian: visada — at all times
• Lithuanian: visuomet — at all times
• Livonian: alz — at all times
• Low German: altied — at all times
• Low German: immer — at all times
• Macedonian: секогаш (sekogaš) — at all times
• Malay: sentiasa — at all times
• Malay: selalu — at all times
• Malay: sepanjang masa — at all times
• Malay: setiap masa — at all times
• Malay: semedang — at all times
• Malay: nalar — at all times
• Malay: selulus — at all times
• Malay: berkelaluan — at all times
• Malayalam: എല്ലായ്പ്പോഴും (ellāyppōḻuṁ) — at all times
• Maltese: dejjem — at all times
• Marathi: नेहमी (nehmī) — at all times
• Middle English: alwey — at all times
• Mirandese: siempre — at all times
• Mòcheno: òlbe — at all times
• Mongolian: дандаа (dandaa) — at all times
• Mongolian: ямагт (jamagt) — at all times
• Navajo: hoolʼáágóó — at all times
• Norman: terjous — at all times
• Norwegian: alltid — at all times
• Norwegian: bestandig — at all times
• Nǀuu: îǁaa — at all times
• Occitan: sempre — at all times
• Occitan: totjorn — at all times
• Occitan: tostemps — at all times
• Odia: ସବୁବେଳେ (sabubeḷe) — at all times
• Southern Ohlone: iñaha — at all times
• Ojibwe: apane — at all times
• Old English: ā — at all times
• Old English: simle — at all times
• Old Galician-Portuguese: sempre — at all times
• Old Prussian: aīnat — at all times
• Persian: همیشه (hamiše) — at all times
• Polabian: altitåi̯ — at all times
• Polish: zawsze — at all times
• Polish: zawżdy — at all times
• Portuguese: sempre — at all times
• Quechua: wiñaipag — at all times
• Romanian: totdeauna — at all times
• Romanian: mereu — at all times
• Romanian: întotdeauna — at all times
• Romansh: adina — at all times
• Romansh: adegna — at all times
• Romansh: adüna (Ladin Puter, Ladin Vallader) — at all times
• Russian: всегда́ (vsegdá) — at all times
• Russian: ве́чно (véčno) — at all times
• Saanich: YOŦ — at all times
• Sanskrit: नित्यम् (nityam) — at all times
• Sanskrit: सदैव (sadaiva) — at all times
• Sanskrit: सततम् (satatam) — at all times
• Sanskrit: सर्वदा (sarvadā) — at all times
• Sardinian: sèmpede — at all times
• Sardinian: sèmper — at all times
• Scots: aye — at all times
• Scottish Gaelic: daonnan — at all times
• Scottish Gaelic: an còmhnaidh — at all times
• Scottish Gaelic: a-chaoidh — at all times
• Serbo-Croatian: vazda — at all times
• Serbo-Croatian: увек — at all times
• Serbo-Croatian: увијек — at all times
• Serbo-Croatian: стално — at all times
• Serbo-Croatian: непрестано — at all times
• Serbo-Croatian: uvek — at all times
• Serbo-Croatian: uvijek — at all times
• Serbo-Croatian: stalno — at all times
• Serbo-Croatian: neprestano — at all times
• Sinhalese: නිතරම (nitarama) — at all times
• Slovak: vždy — at all times
• Slovak: stále — at all times
• Slovene: védno — at all times
• Slovene: zméraj — at all times
• Upper Sorbian: přeco — at all times
• Spanish: siempre — at all times
• Swahili: sikuzote — at all times
• Swedish: alltid — at all times
• Tagalog: lagi — at all times
• Tajik: ҳамеша (hameša) — at all times
• Tajik: доимо (doyimo) — at all times
• Tamil: எப்பொழுதும் (eppoḻutum) — at all times
• Tatar: һәрвакыт (härwaqıt) — at all times
• Tatar: һәркайчан (härqayçan) — at all times
• Tatar: һәрчак (härçaq) — at all times
• Tatar: гел (gel) — at all times
• Telugu: ఎల్లప్పుడు (ellappuḍu) — at all times
• Thai: ตลอด (dtà-lɔ̀ɔt) — at all times
• Tibetan: རྟག་པར (rtag par) — at all times
• Tibetan: འཆར་ཅན — at all times
• Tibetan: ག་དུས་ཡིན་ནའི (ga dus yin na'i) — at all times
• Tibetan: ནམ་གཏན་དུ (nam gtan du) — at all times
• Tocharian B: ṣek — at all times
• Turkish: her zaman — at all times
• Turkish: daima — at all times
• Turkish: hep — at all times
• Turkmen: hemişe — at all times
• Turkmen: mydama — at all times
• Udmurt: котьку (koťku) — at all times
• Ukrainian: за́вжди (závždy) — at all times
• Ukrainian: завжди́ (zavždý) — at all times
• Ukrainian: за́всіди (závsidy) — at all times
• Ukrainian: за́вше (závše) — at all times
• Ukrainian: повсякча́с (povsjakčás) — at all times
• Unami: nkëme — at all times
• Urdu: ہمیشہ (hameśā) — at all times
• Urdu: سدا (sadā) — at all times
• Urdu: نتیہ (nitya) — at all times
• Uzbek: har doim — at all times
• Uzbek: doim — at all times
• Uzbek: doimo — at all times
• Uzbek: hamisha — at all times
• Venetan: senpre — at all times
• Venetan: senper — at all times
• Venetan: senpro — at all times
• Vietnamese: luôn luôn — at all times
• Vietnamese: luôn — at all times
• Vietnamese: mãi mãi — at all times
• Volapük: ai — at all times
• Welsh: wastad — at all times
• Welsh: bob amser — at all times
• West Flemish: olsan — at all times
• West Flemish: assan — at all times
• Wolaytta: ubbatoo — at all times
• Yiddish: שטענדיק (shtendik) — at all times
• Yiddish: תּמיד (tomed) — at all times
• Zhuang: caenh — at all times
• Arabic: ديمًا (dayman) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Armenian: միշտ (mišt) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Armenian: անընդհատ (anəndhat) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Basque: beti — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Belarusian: заўсёды (zawsjódy) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Belarusian: заўжды́ (zawždý) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Belarusian: уве́сь ча́с (uvjésʹ čás) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Belarusian: пастая́нна (pastajánna) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Bengali: হামেশা (hameśa) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Breton: ato — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Bulgarian: ви́наги (vínagi) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Catalan: sempre — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Chickasaw: bíyyi'ka — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Czech: pořád — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Danish: altid — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Dutch: altijd — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Estonian: alati — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Estonian: ikka — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Ewe: ɣesiaɣi — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Finnish: aina — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Finnish: koko ajan — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Finnish: joka kerta — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Finnish: jatkuvasti — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Finnish: alinomaa — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Finnish: alituiseen — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Georgian: ყოველთვის (q̇oveltvis) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Georgian: მუდამ (mudam) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• German: immer — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Greek: πάντα (pánta) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Greek: πάντοτε (pántote) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Hawaiian: mau — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Hindi: हमेशा (hameśā) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Hindi: सदा (sadā) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Hindi: निरंतर (nirantar) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Hungarian: állandóan — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Hungarian: mindig — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Icelandic: alltaf — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Ido: sempre — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Irish: i gcónaí — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Irish: síor- — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Old Irish: do grés — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Italian: sempre — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Japanese: いつも (itsu mo) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Japanese: 常に (tsune ni) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Japanese: ずっと (zutto) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Central Kurdish: ھەموجار (hemucar) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Latvian: vienmēr — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Limburgish: ummertoe — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Limburgish: jedes kiër — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Macedonian: секогаш (sekogaš) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Malay: selalu — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Malay: sering — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Malayalam: എപ്പോഴും (eppōḻuṁ) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Middle English: alwey — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Mirandese: siempre — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Norwegian: hele tiden — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Norwegian: konstant — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Norwegian: alltid — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Persian: همیشه (hamiše) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Polish: zawsze — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Polish: ciągle — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Polish: stale — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Portuguese: sempre — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Portuguese: constantemente — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Russian: всегда́ (vsegdá) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Russian: ве́чно (véčno) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Russian: всё вре́мя (vsjo vrémja) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Russian: постоя́нно (postojánno) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Scots: aye — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Scottish Gaelic: daonnan — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Scottish Gaelic: an còmhnaidh — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Serbo-Croatian: увек — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Serbo-Croatian: увијек — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Serbo-Croatian: стално — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Serbo-Croatian: непрестано — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Serbo-Croatian: uvek — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Serbo-Croatian: uvijek — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Serbo-Croatian: stalno — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Serbo-Croatian: neprestano — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Slovak: vždy — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Slovak: stále — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Slovene: védno — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Slovene: zméraj — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Slovene: vsákič — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Spanish: siempre — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Swahili: sikuzote — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Swedish: alltid — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Thai: เสมอ (sà-mə̌ə) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Thai: บ่อย (bɔ̀i) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Ukrainian: завжди́ (zavždý) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Ukrainian: за́вжди (závždy) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Ukrainian: за́вше (závše) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Ukrainian: весь ча́с (vesʹ čás) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Ukrainian: уве́сь час (uvésʹ čas) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals
• Urdu: ہمیشہ (hameśā) — constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals