Word definition: pattern

Etimology


From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”). Doublet of padrone, patron, and Patronus.

noun


pattern (plural patterns)

Model, example.

Coherent or decorative arrangement.

(Singaporean, informal) A wont or habit to cause an annoyance or bother; to stir up trouble

Examples


Synonyms: original, stencil, template

There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern.

Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.

I write this to repeat most earnestly for myself all that she said to you and to let you know how sure I am that you will sooner or later find our cousin John a pattern of truth, sincerity, and goodness, when you will deeply, deeply grieve to have done him so much wrong.

The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages.

From this point those who became pupils went on to a further series of shops, usually commencing with the pattern shop. […] However, some of us did make quite reasonable patterns and had the satisfaction of seeing castings produced from them but, sad to say, many of these efforts were used as firewood after they had left the shop.

But instead, the distinctive ironwork and glass platform awnings have been carefully refurbished, while making them compatible with the overhead wiring. Kettering's island Platform 2/3 is especially noteworthy. Although it dates from 1879, when the station was enlarged to four platforms, the same original patterns for the delicate cast-ironwork seem to have been used - […] .

There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.

Synonym: tessellation

On my way to work the other day, I stopped at a church in Rome and saw a painting of the Madonna. The subtle pattern of blues and golds in the embroidery of her dress was so amazing that I used it to design a new evening dress for my haute couture.

He lifted the entire joint or fowl up into the air, speared on a carving fork, and sliced pieces off it so that they fell on the plate below in perfectly organised patterns.

The three killings pointed to an ugly new shift in the enduring pattern of violence in Northern Ireland: the mostly Protestant Ulster police, or those suspected of affiliation with them, have become more prominent targets for the I.R.A. than the British troops.

Look again at how the US and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.

Pattern 10 is open in figure 3.9, showing the 64 notes in the pattern .

A MOD file contains a number of short audio samples, and instructions or a “pattern” for how and when those samples are to be played.

Hyponyms: breeder, eater, Garden of Eden, gun, methuselah, oscillator, puffer, rake, reflector, replicator, sawtooth, spacefiller, spaceship, spark, still life

For example, at one point it claims that in order to view a pattern capable of reproduction and evolution, one would need a computer with a screen the size of the solar system, and the pattern would be so sparse anyway as to be almost unobservable.

The state of the pattern after 1.25 * 10^12 generations is here:

The isotropy means all patterns behave the same regardless of orientation in space, they can be flipped or rotated without changing their behavior.

I got so much of it, my cousins think I've got a pattern with CelineAnd that I'm lyin', when I say that I do no get it for free

This guy always chut pattern like badminton.

Related words


synonyms

(3): category

(4): cycle

(5): similarity

See also Thesaurus:model

antonyms

antipattern

verb


pattern (third-person singular simple present patterns, present participle patterning, simple past and past participle patterned)

To apply a pattern.

To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

To follow an example.

To fit into a pattern.

(transitive) To serve as an example for.

(hunting, transitive) To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours.

(MLE) To arrange, to organise, to fix.

Examples


[A temple] patterned […] from that which Adam reared in Paradise.

Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command.

MALACHI: Are you two fucking mad? Listen, you need to pattern up, you know?

Related words


synonyms

model

categorize

adjective


pattern (not comparable)

Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal.

Examples


"Not to me," interrupted his sister. "I will have no straw-bonneted, gingham-gowned pattern wives in my acquaintance. I shall make a point of cutting you."

The parish duty was better attended to, and perhaps domestic duties also. At such period he was a pattern parson and a pattern husband, atoning to his own conscience for past shortcomings by present zeal.

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