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pattern
[ pat-ern; British pat-n ]
noun
- a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
Synonyms:
- decoration or ornament having such a design.
- a natural or chance marking, configuration, or design:
patterns of frost on the window.
- a distinctive style, model, or form:
a new pattern of army helmet.
Synonyms: ,
- a combination of qualities, acts, tendencies, etc., forming a consistent or characteristic arrangement:
the behavior patterns of teenagers.
- an original or model considered for or deserving of imitation:
Our constitution has been a pattern for those of many new republics.
Synonyms: ,
- anything fashioned or designed to serve as a model or guide for something to be made:
a paper pattern for a dress.
- a sufficient quantity of material for making a garment.
- the path of flight established for an aircraft approaching an airport at which it is to land.
- a diagram of lines transmitted occasionally by a television station to aid in adjusting receiving sets; test pattern.
- Metallurgy. a model or form, usually of wood or metal, used for giving the shape of the interior of a mold.
- Numismatics. a coin, either the redesign of an existing piece or the model for a new one, submitted for authorization as a regular issue.
- an example, instance, sample, or specimen.
- Gunnery, Aerial Bombing.
- the distribution of strikes around a target at which artillery rounds have been fired or on which bombs have been dropped.
- a diagram showing such distribution.
verb (used with object)
- to make or fashion after or according to a pattern.
- to cover or mark with a pattern.
- Chiefly British Dialect.
- to imitate.
- to attempt to match or duplicate.
verb (used without object)
- to make or fall into a pattern.
pattern
1/ ˈæə /
noun
- an arrangement of repeated or corresponding parts, decorative motifs, etc
although the notes seemed random, a careful listener could detect a pattern
- a decorative design
a paisley pattern
- a style
various patterns of cutlery
- a plan or diagram used as a guide in making something
a paper pattern for a dress
- a standard way of moving, acting, etc
traffic patterns
- a model worthy of imitation
a pattern of kindness
- a representative sample
- a wooden or metal shape or model used in a foundry to make a mould
- the arrangement of marks made in a target by bullets
- a diagram displaying such an arrangement
verb
- often foll byafter or on to model
- to arrange as or decorate with a pattern
pattern
2/ ˈæə /
noun
- an outdoor assembly with religious practices, traders' stalls, etc on the feast day of a patron saint
Other Word Forms
- 貹t·· adjective
- 貹tԱ adjective
- 貹t· noun
- 貹t· adjective
- 貹t· adjective
- 貹t· adjective
- non·貹tԱ adjective
- ·貹t verb (used with object)
- semi·貹tԱ adjective
- ܲ·貹t noun
- un·貹tԱ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of pattern1
Origin of pattern2
Example Sentences
Cardinals wear similar clothes, but they can be distinguished by their more ornate damask pattern mitres, which look cream rather than white.
A cool, wet weather pattern will probably bring some April showers to Southern California over the next few days.
These neurons produce cognition by the patterns in which groups of them fire at once — a model that has inspired advanced computers and AI.
A distorted jet stream pattern early next week that means temperatures will rise.
Their actions follow a similar pattern of reports of large groups of teens on bikes stealing from stores and attacking drivers across the city over the last several months.
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