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Pattern

noun

1.

A perceptual structure. Synonyms: form, shape. "A visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"

2.

A customary way of operation or behavior. Synonym: practice. "They changed their dietary pattern"

3.

A decorative or artistic work. Synonyms: design, figure.

4.

Something regarded as a normative example. Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule. "Violence is the rule not the exception" , "His formula for impressing visitors"

5.

A model considered worthy of imitation.

6.

Something intended as a guide for making something else. Synonyms: blueprint, design. "A pattern for a skirt"

7.

The path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport. Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern. "They stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"

8.

Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle. Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern.

verb

(past & past part. patterned; pres. part. patterning)

1.

Plan or create according to a model or models. Synonym: model.

2.

Form a pattern.

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"Pattern" Quotes from Famous Books

... the South Seas is all upon one pattern; it is a wide ocean, indeed, but a narrow world: you shall never talk long and not hear the name of Bully Hayes, a naval hero whose exploits and deserved extinction left Europe cold; commerce will be touched on, copra, shell, perhaps cotton or fungus; but in a far-away, ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to ...

— Deuteronomical Books of the Bible - Apocrypha • Anonymous

... pattern," suggested Henderson; so it was now Kenrick's turn to shudder at a miserable attempt at a pun, and return Henderson's missile, whereupon he got a hundred lines, which made him ...

— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar

... away from the banks until they were lost in the distance and from every gully, purling streams flashed their clear waters into the yellow of the river. The banks were blushing with the glory of autumn and vines hung among the trees like curtains of the richest pattern. Game was utterly fearless until frightened away from the water's edge by a blast from the bugle or a shot. A bar was utilized for a camp that night and at ten o'clock next morning, the white tepees of an Indian village were seen, and piles of wood along the river ...

— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

... comprehensible, it is necessary to add here that Lord Dudley naturally found many women disposed to reproduce samples of such a delicious pattern. His second masterpiece of this kind was a young girl named Euphemie, born of a Spanish lady, reared in Havana, and brought to Madrid with a young Creole woman of the Antilles, and with all the ruinous tastes of the Colonies, but fortunately married to an old and extremely rich ...

— The Girl with the Golden Eyes • Honore de Balzac

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