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ˈpatterned, ppl. a.
[f. pattern n. and v. + -ed.]
a. Having a pattern or patterns; decorated or worked with a pattern or design; conforming with, or forming, an arrangement or pattern. Often with defining word, as large-patterned, small-patterned, fancy-patterned.
1797–1805S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. V. 24 Neat window curtains, pretty-patterned sopha, and unsoiled carpet. 1876J. Martineau Hours Th. 292 The horizontal sun..piercing the forest with a patterned glory. 1882Archæol. Cant. XIV. 104 A pavement..of coloured and patterned tiles. 1930E. Pound XXX Cantos v. 19 Ecbatan, City of patterned streets. 1961Lancet 29 July 259/2 The release from patterned behaviour forced the choice between good and evil. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 480/2 These..represent potentialities for the most varied outcomes, yet outcomes extremely patterned culturally. 1967E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iii. 64 When wall papers, patterned fabrics and carpets are used any embroidery must be more carefully considered to avoid a ‘messy’ effect. 1970G. A. & A. G. Theodorson Mod. Dict. Sociol. 293 Patterned evasion, a regularised way of deviating from an established social norm. 1973Technical Translation Bull. XIX. 103 Patterned glass is the name used where the patterns are distinctive and fancy, e.g. Arctic, Hammered, Moroccan (traditional patterns still going strong) or modern types such as ‘Mersey’ or ‘Manhattan’. 1973J. M. White Garden Game 64 A bright flower-patterned cretonne. 1977Jersey Even. Post 26 July 10/1 Her bridesmaid..wore a long, tiered empireline voile dress, made of a yellow and red floral patterned material.
b. patterned ground (Physical Geogr.): ground showing a definite pattern of stones, fissures, vegetation, etc. (commonly polygons, rings, or stripes), such as is typical of periglacial regions.
1950A. L. Washburn in Revue Canad. de Géogr. IV. 8 The terms Rutmark, Strukturboden..stone polygons, mud circles, soil circles, mud polygons, soil polygons, fissure polygons, tundra polygons, stone stripes, soil stripes, solifluction stripes and others have all been used to describe features here collectively named patterned ground for want of a satisfactory collective term in English... The writer would restrict the use of patterned ground to more or less symmetrical features. 1956Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. LXVII. 846/1 Frost wedging in bedrock is capable of developing several varieties of patterned ground, all intimately associated with bedrock structure. 1973Nature Physical Sci. 4 June 85/2 This mechanism creates the gilgai of clay-rich and commonly alluvial soils in many hot sub-humid to semi-arid regions of the world. These structures are forms of patterned ground, having a surface expression as roughly polygonal to rectilinear-parallel systems of low ridges between hollows. |