pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpatən/
note: younger also
ipa: /ˈpatn̩/
ipa: /ˈpætɚn/
rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)n
homophone: paten
homophone: patten
homophone: Patton (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: patterns
Etymology: From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”). Doublet of padrone, patron, Patronus, and patroon.
Senses: examples: text: The wallpaper had a floral pattern.
text: There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern.
ref: 1923 June 18, ‘President Wilson’, Time:
glosses: Model, example.
Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
synonyms: original
stencil
template
examples: text: Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.
ref: 1793 March 19, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana:
text: I write this to repeat most earnestly for myself all that she said to you and to let you know how sure I am that you will sooner or later find our cousin John a pattern of truth, sincerity, and goodness, when you will deeply, deeply grieve to have done him (without intending it) so much wrong.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.16:
glosses: Model, example.
Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
glosses: Model, example.
A copy.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Model, example.
A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.
glosses: Model, example.
A representative example.
glosses: Model, example.
The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Model, example.
The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
examples: text: 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 firewood after they had left the shop.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
text: But instead, the distinctive ironwork and glass platform awnings have been carefully refurbished, while making them compatible with the overhead wiring. Kettering's island Platform 2/3 is especially noteworthy. Although it dates from 1879, when the station was enlarged to four platforms, the same original (1857) patterns for the delicate cast-ironwork seem to have been used - […].
ref: 2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Kettering”, in RAIL, number 972, page 56:
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Model, example.
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.
examples: There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Model, example.
A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Model, example.
A design pattern.
examples: text: On my way to work the other day, I stopped at a church in Rome and saw a painting of the Madonna. The subtle pattern of blues and golds in the embroidery of her dress was so amazing that I used it to design a new evening dress for my haute couture.
ref: 2003, Valentino, ‘Is there a future in fashion's past?’, Time, 5 Feb 2003
glosses: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
synonyms: tessellation
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2011 June 19, Rachel Cooke, The Observer:
glosses: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.
glosses: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
examples: text: follow a pattern
text: There’s a clear pattern of behavior emerging.
text: pattern of growth
text: The three killings pointed to an ugly new shift in the enduring pattern of violence in Northern Ireland: the mostly Protestant Ulster police, or those suspected of affiliation with them, have become more prominent targets for the I.R.A. than the British troops.
ref: 1980 October 6, ‘Shifting Targets’, Time:
text: Look again at how the US and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.
ref: 2003 August 14, Kate Hudson, The Guardian:
glosses: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
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.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
examples: text: Pattern 10 is open in figure 3.9, showing the 64 notes in the pattern (each pattern in this song has 64 beats).
ref: 2008, Karen Collins, Game Sound, page 59:
text: A MOD file contains a number of short audio samples, and instructions or a “pattern” for how and when those samples are to be played.
ref: 2017, Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland, The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories, page 444:
topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1989 May 6, Alan Hensel, “Looking for Life Newsletter”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: The state of the pattern after 1.25 * 10^12 generations is here:
ref: 2010 March 20, Adam Goucher, “What is CA for?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: The isotropy means all patterns behave the same regardless of orientation in space, they can be flipped or rotated without changing their behavior.
ref: 2022 February 11, Mateon1, “Game of Life with real 8 neighbors”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
A configuration of cells in a cellular automaton universe.
hyponyms: breeder
eater
Garden of Eden
gun
methuselah
oscillator
puffer
rake
reflector
replicator
sawtooth
spacefiller
spaceship
spark
still life
examples: text: 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
ref: 2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 2:44:
glosses: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
Any arrangement or agreement, or way of conducting business.
examples: This guy always chut pattern like badminton.
glosses: A wont or habit to cause an annoyance or bother; to stir up trouble
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The devotions that take place within a parish on the feast day of the patron saint of that parish.
Synonyms: sense: category
word: 3
sense: cycle
word: 4
sense: similarity
word: 5
Derived terms: abstract factory pattern
adapter pattern
Airy pattern
anti-pattern
architectural pattern
beampattern
behavioral pattern
behavioural pattern
be part of life's rich pattern
biopattern
bridge pattern
builder pattern
candlestick pattern
chain-of-responsibility pattern
Chladni pattern
choo pattern
choot pattern
chu pattern
chut pattern
class adapter pattern
command pattern
composite pattern
compound pattern
concurrency pattern
co-pattern
creational pattern
curiously recurring template pattern
dark pattern
decorator pattern
depattern
design pattern
diffraction pattern
durational pattern
eigenpattern
eye pattern
façade pattern
facade pattern
factory method pattern
factory pattern
fact pattern
fact-pattern
female pattern baldness
flyweight pattern
front controller pattern
glycopattern
holding pattern
hydropattern
indulgency pattern
integumentary pattern
interference pattern
iterator pattern
Kelvin wake pattern
lexicosyntactic pattern
Lichtenberg pattern
macropattern
male pattern baldness
male-pattern violence
male pattern violence
marker interface pattern
messaging pattern
metapattern
micropattern
mispattern
module pattern
moiré pattern
morphological pattern
multipattern
multiton pattern
nanopattern
nonpattern
non-virtual interface pattern
object adapter pattern
object pool pattern
patternable
patternage
patternation
pattern baldness
pattern bargaining
pattern board
pattern book
pattern box
pattern budget
pattern card
patterner
pattern formation
pattern glass
pattern hoe
patternicity
pattern interrupt
patternize
pattern language
patternless
patternlike
pattern maker
patternmaker
patternmaking
pattern matching
pattern notes
pattern recognition
pattern theory
pattern up
pattern variable
pattern wheel
patternwise
pattern word
patterny
phylopattern
policy pattern
prepattern
protopattern
prototype pattern
proxy pattern
repattern
RNA expression pattern
seropattern
shawl pattern
singleton pattern
social pattern
spoligopattern
state pattern
strategy pattern
structural pattern
subpattern
superpattern
template method pattern
test pattern
thought pattern
Turing pattern
Van pattern
visitor design pattern
visitor pattern
Western pattern diet
Widmanstaetten pattern
Widmanstätten pattern