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English to English noun Example:
• the composition presents problems for students of musical form
• a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them
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a customary way of operation or behavior |
• it is their practice to give annual raises
• they changed their dietary pattern
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a decorative or artistic work |
• the coach had a design on the doors
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something regarded as a normative example |
• the convention of not naming the main character
• violence is the rule not the exception
• his formula for impressing visitors
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a model considered worthy of imitation |
• the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics
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something intended as a guide for making something else |
• a blueprint for a house
• a pattern for a skirt
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the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport |
• the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded
• they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted
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graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | source: wordnet30
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Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. | source: webster1913
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A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire. | source: webster1913 verb
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plan or create according to a model or models | source: wordnet30 Example:
• These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before
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To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. | source: webster1913
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