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Noun: pattern paturn- A perceptual structure
"a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them" - form, shape - A customary way of operation or behaviour
"they changed their dietary pattern" - practice - A decorative or artistic work
- design, figure - Something regarded as a normative example
- convention, normal, rule, formula - A model considered worthy of imitation
"the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics" - Something intended as a guide for making something else
"a pattern for a skirt" - blueprint, design - The path that is prescribed for an aeroplane 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" - traffic pattern, approach pattern - Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
- radiation pattern, radiation diagram Verb: pattern paturn- Plan or create according to a model or models
- model - Form a pattern
"These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"
Derived forms: patterning, patterned, patterns Type of: activity, agree, check, copy, correspond, decoration, example, exemplar, fit, gibe, good example, graph, graphical record, imitate, itinerary, jibe, match, model, ornament, ornamentation, path, plan, practice, program, programme [Brit, Cdn], route, simulate, structure, tally Part of: percept, perception, perceptual experience Encyclopedia: Pattern |