English dictionary
pattern
/'p/&/t/@/rn/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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a perceptual structure
ExamplesA visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them.
Source: WordNet 3.0
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a customary way of operation or behavior
ExamplesThey changed their dietary pattern.
Synonyms practiceSource: WordNet 3.0
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a decorative or artistic work
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something regarded as a normative example
Source: WordNet 3.0
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a model considered worthy of imitation
ExamplesThe American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics.
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something intended as a guide for making something else
ExamplesA pattern for a skirt.
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the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport
ExamplesThe traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded.
They stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted.
Source: WordNet 3.0
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graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
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Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a <i>pattern</i> of a machine.
Source: webster1913
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A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
Source: webster1913
verb
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plan or create according to a model or models
Synonyms modelSource: WordNet 3.0
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form a pattern
ExamplesThese sentences pattern like the ones we studied before.
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To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
Source: webster1913