pattern

noun patterns

1. Model, example.
2. Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.

   Similar: original, stencil, template

3. 1923 June 18, ‘President Wilson’, Time
4. There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern.
5. Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar. Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.
6. archaic A copy.
7. A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.
8. A representative example.
9. US The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
10. The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
11. A full-sized model around which a mould 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 mould without damage. 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 firewo
12. A text string containing wildcards, used for matching. There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.
13. in compounds A design pattern.

    Similar: 3

14. A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements. The wallpaper had a floral pattern.

    Similar: tessellation

15. A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect. 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.
16. The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
17. A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship. follow a pattern
18. An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
19. A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song. Pattern 10 is open in figure 3.9, showing the 64 notes in the pattern (each pattern in this song has 64 beats).
20. A configuration of cells in a cellular automaton universe. 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.
21. Multicultural London English Any arrangement or agreement, or way of conducting business. I got so much of it, my cousins think I've got a pattern with Celine And that I'm lyin', when I say that I do no get it for free
22. Singapore, informal A wont or habit to cause an annoyance or bother; to stir up trouble This guy always chut pattern like badminton.
23. Ireland The devotions that take place within a parish on the feast day of the patron saint of that parish.

Similar: 4, 5 · Opposite: antipattern

verb patterns · patterning · patterned

1. To apply a pattern.
2. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. [A temple] patterned […] from that which Adam reared in Paradise.
3. To follow an example. Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command.
4. To fit into a pattern. Although there is no direct evidence for the identification of *θi as a genuine prefix in this word, it patterns well with the other discussed instances of *θi- both morphologically and semantically.
5. transitive To serve as an example for.
6. transitive To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours.
7. Multicultural London English To arrange, to organise, to fix. MALACHI: Are you two fucking mad? Listen, you need to pattern up, you know?
8. Multicultural London English To assault. Pattern gang, who they patterning? Pull up, skrr, have them panicking.
9. Multicultural London English To teach someone a lesson. The system can't pattern me out or pattern me down, I'll pattern these clowns. They tried block my path, I built my own. Ya dun know, better start patterning now.
10. Multicultural London English To have sex with. Pretty girls wanna beat, wanna pattern.
11. Multicultural London English To arrange the sale or supply of something, especially illegal drugs. You know man's patterned, man's still slanging. Pack just vanished, all raw, no magic.
12. Multicultural London English To do or perform an activity Oh, you mad? Then come at me, you prick. Make a move, better pattern it quick.

Similar: model, categorize

adjective

1. not comparable Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal. "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."