pattern
pa tern
- n a perceptual structure
a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them - n a customary way of operation or behavior
they changed their dietary pattern - n a decorative or artistic work
- n something regarded as a normative example
- n a model considered worthy of imitation
the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics - n something intended as a guide for making something else
a pattern for a skirt - n 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 - n graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
- v plan or create according to a model or models
- v form a pattern
These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before
- More than the patterns have changed at Rosenthal.
- No one knows whether it was Ebenezer Butterick or his smart wife Ellen who invented the standardized paper pattern for clothes.
- THE events in Uruguay are an ugly example of a rising pattern of kidnapings and killings that plague Latin America.