Pattern (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
  2. decoration or ornament having such a design.
  3. a natural or chance marking, configuration, or design: patterns of frost on the window.
  4. a distinctive style, model, or form: a new pattern of army helmet.
  5. a combination of qualities, acts, tendencies, etc., forming a consistent or characteristic arrangement: the behavior patterns of teenagers.
  6. an original or model considered for or deserving of imitation: Our constitution has been a pattern for those of many new republics.
  7. anything fashioned or designed to serve as a model or guide for something to be made: a paper pattern for a dress.
  8. a sufficient quantity of material for making a garment.
  9. the path of flight established for an aircraft approaching an airport at which it is to land.
  10. a diagram of lines transmitted occasionally by a television station to aid in adjusting receiving sets; test pattern.
  11. a model or form, usually of wood or metal, used for giving the shape of the interior of a mold.
  12. a coin, either the redesign of an existing piece or the model for a new one, submitted for authorization as a regular issue.
  13. an example, instance, sample, or specimen.
  14. Gunnery, Aerial Bombing.
    • the distribution of strikes around a target at which artillery rounds have been fired or on which bombs have been dropped.
    • a diagram showing such distribution.
verb (used with object)
  1. to make or fashion after or according to a pattern.
  2. to cover or mark with a pattern.
  3. Chiefly British Dialect.
    • to imitate.
    • to attempt to match or duplicate.
verb (used without object)
  1. to make or fall into a pattern.
noun
  1. an arrangement of repeated or corresponding parts, decorative motifs, etc
  2. a decorative design
  3. a style
  4. a plan or diagram used as a guide in making something
  5. a standard way of moving, acting, etc
  6. a model worthy of imitation
  7. a representative sample
  8. a wooden or metal shape or model used in a foundry to make a mould
    • the arrangement of marks made in a target by bullets
    • a diagram displaying such an arrangement
verb (tr)
  1. to model
  2. to arrange as or decorate with a pattern
noun
  1. an outdoor assembly with religious practices, traders' stalls, etc on the feast day of a patron saint
Pattern (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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