pattern
a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
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.
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.
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.
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.
to make or fall into a pattern.
Origin of pattern
1Other words for pattern
Other words from pattern
- pat·tern·a·ble, adjective
- patterned, adjective
- pat·tern·er, noun
- pat·tern·less, adjective
- pat·tern·like, adjective
- pat·tern·y, adjective
- non·pat·terned, adjective
- re·pat·tern, verb (used with object)
- sem·i·pat·terned, adjective
- sub·pat·tern, noun
- un·pat·terned, adjective
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How to use pattern in a sentence
This, according to the writers, is a marked departure from the voting patterns of the 2016 presidential elections.
The Modi-Trump friendship could change the way Indian-Americans vote in November 2020 | Manavi Kapur | September 17, 2020 | QuartzWhen macrophages and other innate immune cells respond to pathogens, their DNA gets epigenetic modifications that make it easier to activate the genes that direct the cell to make pattern recognition receptors and disease-fighting proteins.
‘Trained Immunity’ Offers Hope in Fight Against Coronavirus | Esther Landhuis | September 14, 2020 | Quanta MagazineWe have to remember that, and be vigilant in our efforts so that we do not reproduce these patterns.
Why Coming Up With Effective Interventions To Address COVID-19 Is So Hard | Neil Lewis Jr. (nlewisjr@cornell.edu) | September 14, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightIncluding non-Western countries in AI ethics is the best way to avoid repeating this pattern.
AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes | Amy Nordrum | September 14, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewChang isn’t the only one to encounter unusual patterns in the options market.
‘Going to Vegas:’ Newbie options traders face a reckoning as the tech stock rally fades | Jeff | September 14, 2020 | Fortune
And in so many of these events, the pattern of “blame the victim” was quickly in evidence.
I would have told them, ‘Do not get into a pattern in which you’re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.
Although the Brits would capture New York City a few weeks later, a pattern had been set.
The British Royals Reinvade Brooklyn: William and Kate Come Watch Basketball on Historic Battle Site | Justin Jones | December 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe endpaper features a “pattern of marbleized paper” that has been “individually designed.”
The loss of his life, and all the others from this summer, back to Trayvon and well before that, are part of a pattern.
The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousHer eye fastened on a circular portion of the wall-paper pattern, and she felt that the whole room was revolving about her.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettAntonius and Hieronymus conjointly built a number of large pattern violins, which are of high finish and beautiful wood.
Violins and Violin Makers | Joseph PearceIt is a matter of regret that some one pattern has not been agreed on by all the builders concerned.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerAnother of the same set in the same hands is a splendid Stradiuarius of the large pattern with a magnificent tone.
Violins and Violin Makers | Joseph Pearce
British Dictionary definitions for pattern (1 of 2)
/ (ˈpætən) /
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
(often foll by after or on) to model
to arrange as or decorate with a pattern
Origin of pattern
1British Dictionary definitions for pattern (2 of 2)
patron
/ (ˈpætərn) /
Irish an outdoor assembly with religious practices, traders' stalls, etc on the feast day of a patron saint
Origin of pattern
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