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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 51Թ 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
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pattern1
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Example Sentences
While many students showed positive behaviour, Estyn found patterns varied across different types of students and courses in further education colleges.
However, what is becoming clearer with a changing climate is that the blocking patterns – resulting in this wind direction – are becoming more frequent.
“Two days does not establish a pattern or practice,” she said, suggesting that it was the actions of a few agents.
This is a reversal of a decades-long pattern in American politics where the Democrats — and not the Republicans — have consistently been seen as the party of working people and the average American.
There are also 273,000 homes at risk of flooding, a figure projected to double within 100 years, as a result of changing weather patterns and rising sea levels.
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