Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Pattern   /pˈætərn/   Listen
Pattern

noun
1.
A perceptual structure.  Synonyms: form, shape.  "A visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
2.
A customary way of operation or behavior.  Synonym: practice.  "They changed their dietary pattern"
3.
A decorative or artistic work.  Synonyms: design, figure.
4.
Something regarded as a normative example.  Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule.  "Violence is the rule not the exception" , "His formula for impressing visitors"
5.
A model considered worthy of imitation.
6.
Something intended as a guide for making something else.  Synonyms: blueprint, design.  "A pattern for a skirt"
7.
The path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport.  Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern.  "They stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
8.
Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle.  Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern.
verb
(past & past part. patterned; pres. part. patterning)
1.
Plan or create according to a model or models.  Synonym: model.
2.
Form a pattern.



Related searches:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Pattern" Quotes from Famous Books



... father is greedy, self-centered, regarding the home as solely for his convenience as his private boarding-house, where he is a despotic boss, why should not the son at least tolerate bossism in his city if he does not himself pattern after his father on a wider scale and regard the city or the state as his private boarding-house and the treasury as his private manger? Where the mother is a petty parasite, what wonder the children regard with indifference, if not even with admiration, the whole system of civic and ...
— Religious Education in the Family • Henry F. Cope

... my choice of a course in carpentry, bricklaying, sheet metal work, plumbing, electricity, drawing and pattern draughting. The work covered from one to three years and assured a man at the end of this time of a position among the skilled workmen who make in wages as much as many a professional man. Not only this but a man with such training as this and with ...
— One Way Out - A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America • William Carleton

... water and stir its contents till cold; pour the custard over the cake; beat the 6 whites to a stiff froth and beat into it gradually 1/2 cup currant, cranberry or apple jelly; spread this meringue over the custard and dot it with little bits of jelly laid on in a pattern. Half the above quantities will be sufficient ...
— Desserts and Salads • Gesine Lemcke

... and girls scarcely realize what the blessings of freedom mean, as the children of the new countries do. But that America is indeed blessed with liberty and happiness is shown by the closeness with which the new nations have followed her as a pattern. Their appreciation of this country was clearly expressed in the Czecho-Slovak Declaration of Independence, and again when President Masaryk at the Hague, on December 30, 1918, spoke ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood

... waiting and difficulty, much expence and charge, at last I got. Four children God gave me by her; but he hath taken them and her all again too, who was a woman of a thousand." Mr. B. then naturally indulges in a panegyric upon this pattern of wives, and reproaches himself for his former insensibility to her surpassing merits: relating with great naivete some domestic passages, with examples of her piety and trials, in one of which latter the enemy would ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 • Various


More quotes...



Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com