English to English
pattern
('p/&/t/@/rn
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noun (n)
- a customary way of operation or behavior(noun.act)Example:
They changed their dietary pattern.
source: wordnet30 - something regarded as a normative example(noun.cognition)source: wordnet30
- a model considered worthy of imitation(noun.cognition)Example:
The American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics.
source: wordnet30 - the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport(noun.location)Example:
The traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded.
They stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted.
source: wordnet30 - graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle(noun.communication)source: wordnet30
- 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.(noun)source: webster1913
- A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.(noun)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- form a pattern(verb.stative)Example:
These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before.
source: wordnet30 - To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.(verb)source: webster1913