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pattern

Nouns

• (n) a perceptual structure
  • the composition presents problems for students of musical form
  • a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them
  form, shape,
• (n) a customary way of operation or behavior
  • it is their practice to give annual raises
  • they changed their dietary pattern
  practice,
• (n) a decorative or artistic work
  • the coach had a design on the doors
  design, figure,
• (n) 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
  normal, convention, rule, formula,
• (n) a model considered worthy of imitation
  • the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics
• (n) something intended as a guide for making something else
  • a blueprint for a house
  • a pattern for a skirt
  blueprint, design,
• (n) 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
  approach pattern, traffic pattern,
• (n) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle radiation diagram, radiation pattern,

Verbs

• (v) plan or create according to a model or models model,
• (v) form a pattern
  • These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before

Synonyms

model form shape practice design figure normal convention rule formula blueprint approach pattern traffic pattern radiation diagram radiation pattern

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