pattern
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: patterns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: patterns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: patterning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: patterned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: patterned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Model, example.
pos: noun
examples: The wallpaper had a floral pattern.
There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern.
gloss: Model, example.
pos: noun
examples: Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.
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.
The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages.
gloss: Model, example.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Model, example.
pos: noun
gloss: Model, example.
pos: noun
gloss: Model, example.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Model, example.
pos: noun
gloss: Model, example.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 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.
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 - […].
gloss: Model, example.
pos: noun
examples: There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.
gloss: Model, example.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
gloss: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
pos: noun
gloss: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
pos: noun
examples: follow a pattern
There’s a clear pattern of behavior emerging.
pattern of growth
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.
Look again at how the US and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.
gloss: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
pos: noun
gloss: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
pos: noun
examples: Pattern 10 is open in figure 3.9, showing the 64 notes in the pattern (each pattern in this song has 64 beats).
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.
gloss: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
The state of the pattern after 1.25 * 10^12 generations is here:
The isotropy means all patterns behave the same regardless of orientation in space, they can be flipped or rotated without changing their behavior.
gloss: Coherent or decorative arrangement.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
examples: 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
gloss: A wont or habit to cause an annoyance or bother; to stir up trouble
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
informal
examples: This guy always chut pattern like badminton.
gloss: The devotions that take place within a parish on the feast day of the patron saint of that parish.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
gloss: To apply a pattern.
pos: verb
gloss: To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
pos: verb
examples: [A temple] patterned […] from that which Adam reared in Paradise.
gloss: To follow an example.
pos: verb
examples: Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command.
gloss: To fit into a pattern.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To serve as an example for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To arrange, to organise, to fix.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
examples: MALACHI: Are you two fucking mad? Listen, you need to pattern up, you know?
gloss: To arrange, to organise, to fix.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
examples: Pattern gang, who they patterning? Pull up, skrr, have them panicking.
Batteries already included, man just shoot it. Trying to pattern your bruces (all of them).
YS just crashed that corn and I swear man's eardrum started rattling (Mad ting). Touch jail when the gang starts patterning.
gloss: To arrange, to organise, to fix.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
examples: 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.
Let me pattern these boys on time.
And I can't lie, I'm really disgusted. I gave 'em my swag, they ain't doing it right. Ima pattern these kids like Ofsted (Chyeah).
Slap him up to pattern him.
gloss: To arrange, to organise, to fix.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
examples: Pretty girls wanna beat, wanna pattern.
My gal so fine, pattern her. Sorry, little nigga, better pattern up.
Don't do dates and I don't like coffee. If she's a 10 I'll pattern her properly.
I see it, I want it, I click it. Nights in the bando, Pyrex whippin'. Pattern your bitch 'cause she's likin' my pictures.
I call her the passionate topper. I book out the suite and she pattern me proper.
gloss: To arrange, to organise, to fix.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
examples: You know man's patterned, man's still slanging. Pack just vanished, all raw, no magic.
Bro thinks I'm booky, cah I ain't tryna sell him shit. Gotta peb this brick, on the next one I'll pattern him.
Twenty pound each for the laces but Tae can pattern me three for fifty. Step with my chain out, everyone shifty.
gloss: To arrange, to organise, to fix.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
examples: Oh, you mad? Then come at me, you prick. Make a move, better pattern it quick.
Me and bro tryna pattern this grow. We ain't editin' pictures but I'm still croppin'.
My girl wanna pattern her hair and nails. So I took her down to Camberwell.
gloss: Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "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."
The parish duty was better attended to, and perhaps domestic duties also. At such period he was a pattern parson and a pattern husband, atoning to his own conscience for past shortcomings by present zeal.
Synonyms: 3
4
5
model
categorize
Antonyms: antipattern
Derived words: 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
knitting 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
willow pattern
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: закономерност
roman: zakonomernost
lang: Esperanto
word: skemo
lang: Finnish
word: kuvio
lang: Finnish
word: kaavamaisuus
lang: Finnish
word: kaava
lang: French
word: régularité
lang: French
word: tendance
lang: French
word: schéma
lang: Greek
word: πρότυπο
roman: prótypo
lang: Icelandic
word: munstur
lang: Italian
word: schema
lang: Italian
word: regolarità
lang: Italian
word: forma
lang: Japanese
word: パターン
roman: patān
lang: Korean
word: 패턴
roman: paeteon
lang: Macedonian
word: закономерност
roman: zakonomernost
lang: Macedonian
word: шема
roman: šema
lang: Romanian
word: regularitate
lang: Romanian
word: uniformitate
lang: Russian
word: закономе́рность
roman: zakonomérnostʹ
lang: Russian
word: моде́ль
roman: modɛ́lʹ
lang: Russian
word: схе́ма
roman: sxéma
lang: Russian
word: образе́ц
roman: obrazéc
lang: Russian
word: па́ттерн
roman: páttɛrn
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: pàtran
lang: Swedish
word: mönster
lang: Turkish
word: örüntü
lang: Zazaki
word: munge