Definition of Pattern

Babylon English
pattern
n. sample; model, ideal; form, mold; shape, configuration; decorative design
v. decorate with a pattern; imitate, mimic; copy an example

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Pattern Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries

Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
Pattern
A technical chart formation used to make market predictions by following the price movements of securities.

Glossary of Iron Casting Terms
Pattern
A form of wood, metal or other materials, around which molding material is placed to make a mold for casting metals.


Pattern Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pattern
(v. t.)
To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
  
(v. t.)
To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
  
(n.)
Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
  
(n.)
Something made after a model; a copy.
  
(n.)
Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
  
(n.)
Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
  
(n.)
Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
  
(n.)
A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
  
(n.)
A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
  

WordNet 2.0
pattern

Noun
1. a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
(synonym) form, shape
(hypernym) structure
(hyponym) fractal
(part-holonym) percept, perception, perceptual experience
2. a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
(synonym) practice
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) biologism
3. a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors"
(synonym) design, figure
(hypernym) decoration, ornament, ornamentation
(hyponym) argyle, argyll
4. something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
(synonym) convention, normal, rule, formula
(hypernym) practice
(hyponym) mores
5. a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
(hypernym) exemplar, example, model, good example
(derivation) model
6. something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
(synonym) blueprint, design
(hypernym) plan, program, programme
(derivation) model
7. the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport; "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
(synonym) traffic pattern, approach pattern
(hypernym) path, route, itinerary
(part-meronym) approach path, approach, glide path, glide slope
8. graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
(synonym) radiation pattern, radiation diagram
(hypernym) graph, graphical record
(part-meronym) lobe

Verb
1. plan or create according to a model or models
(synonym) model
(hypernym) imitate, copy, simulate
(hyponym) scale
2. form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"
(hypernym) match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
(derivation) traffic pattern, approach pattern

Shakespeare Words
PATTERN
to give an example of Afford a pattern for

hEnglish - advanced version
pattern

pattern
\pat"tern\, n. (gun.) a diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
pattern
\pat"tern\ (?), n. [oe. patron, f. patron, a patron, also, a pattern. see patron.]
1. anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. i will be the pattern of all patience.
2. a part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance. he compares the pattern with the whole piece.
3. stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
4. figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
5. something made after a model; a copy. the patterns of things in the heavens. ix. 23.
6. anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
7. (founding) a full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. it is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
pattern
box,


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Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
pattern
patrún

English Phonetics

JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Anghraifft
Anghraifft = n. a pattern

Cynllun
Cynllun = n. pattern, model

Cynnelw
Cynnelw = n. pattern

Dull
Dull = n. figure, shape, farm, manner; pattern

Portreiad
Portreiad = n. a pattern, a sampler, a model


Pattern Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries

English-Latin Online Dictionary
pattern
exemplar, exemplum


Pattern Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries

English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan
Pattern
nel-dath (anc.)


Pattern Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Pattern
The pattern is a form, template, or model (or, more abstractly, a set of ) which can be used to make or to generate things or parts of a thing, especially if the things that are created have enough in common for the underlying pattern to be inferred, in which case the things are said to exhibit the pattern. Pattern matching is the act of checking for the presence of the constituents of a pattern. The detection of underlying patterns is called pattern recognition. The question of how different patterns emerge is accomplished through the work of the scientific field of pattern formation. Patterns are also related to repeated shapes or objects, sometimes referred to as elements of the series. Some patterns (for example, many visual patterns) may be directly observable through the senses.

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