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noun
- 1. a repeated decorative design: "a neat blue herringbone pattern" Similar
- 2. a model or design used as a guide in needlework and other crafts: "make a pattern for the zigzag edge" Similar
verb
- 1. decorate with a repeated design: "he was sitting on a soft carpet patterned in rich colours"
- 2. give a regular or intelligible form to: "the brain not only receives information, but interprets and patterns it"
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The meaning of PATTERN is a form or model proposed for imitation : exemplar. How to use pattern in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Pattern.
PATTERN definition: 1. a particular way in which something is done, is organized, or happens: 2. any regularly…. Learn more.
noun. a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc. Synonyms: figure. decoration or ornament having such a design. a natural or chance marking, configuration, or design: patterns of frost on the window. a distinctive style, model, or form: a new pattern of army helmet. Synonyms: sort, kind.
A pattern is an arrangement of lines or shapes, especially a design in which the same shape is repeated at regular intervals over a surface.
Something that repeats in a predictable way is a pattern. You might find a pattern in a series of numbers, in the material covering your couch, or in the habits of your upstairs neighbor. The noun pattern could refer to a design or to customary behavior.
PATTERN definition: 1. a particular way that something is often done or repeated: 2. a design of lines, shapes…. Learn more.
Definition of pattern noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A pattern is an arrangement of lines or shapes, especially a design in which the same shape is repeated at regular intervals over a surface.
PATTERN meaning: 1 : a repeated form or design especially that is used to decorate something; 2 : the regular and repeated way in which something happens or is done
A discernible order or arrangement in some branch of language, esp. phonology. 1921. Every language, then, is characterized as much by its ideal system of sounds and by the underlying phonetic pattern (system, one might term it, of symbolic atoms) as by a definite grammatical structure. E. Sapir, Language iii. 56.
