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English noun: pattern | |||
| 1. | pattern (cognition) a perceptual structure | ||
| Samples | The composition presents problems for students of musical form. A visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them. | ||
| Synonyms | form, shape | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | structure | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | fractal, gestalt, grid, kaleidoscope, mosaic, strand | ||
| Part meronym | percept, perception, perceptual experience | ||
| 2. | pattern (act) a customary way of operation or behavior | ||
| Samples | It is their practice to give annual raises. They changed their dietary pattern. | ||
| Synonyms | practice | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | activity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | biologism, calisthenics, callisthenics, cannibalism, careerism, cooperation, cross dressing, custom, fashion, featherbedding, formalism, habitude, lobbyism, lynch law, mistreatment, modernism, naturism, nonconformism, nudism, occult, occult arts, one-upmanship, ornamentalism, papism, peonage, pluralism, popery, quotation, ritual, ritualism, slaveholding, slavery, symbolisation, symbolism, symbolization, systematism, transvestism, transvestitism, unwritten law, usage, usance | ||
| 3. | pattern (artifact) a decorative or artistic work | ||
| Samples | The coach had a design on the doors. | ||
| Synonyms | design, figure | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | decoration, ornament, ornamentation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | argyle, argyll, bear claw, damascene, decal, decalcomania, device, emblem, herringbone, herringbone pattern, linocut, mandala, marking, mihrab, motif, motive, polka dot, pyrograph, screen saver, sunburst, tattoo, tetraskele, tetraskelion, triskele, triskelion, weave | ||
| 4. | pattern (cognition) something regarded as a normative example | ||
| Samples | The convention of not naming the main character. Violence is the rule not the exception. His formula for impressing visitors. | ||
| Synonyms | convention, formula, normal, rule | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | practice | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | code of behavior, code of conduct, mores, universal | ||
| 5. | pattern (cognition) a model considered worthy of imitation | ||
| Samples | The American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | example, exemplar, good example, model | ||
| 6. | pattern (cognition) something intended as a guide for making something else | ||
| Samples | A blueprint for a house. A pattern for a skirt. | ||
| Synonyms | blueprint, design | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | plan, program, programme | ||
| 7. | pattern (location) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | ||
| Samples | The traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded. They stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted. | ||
| Synonyms | approach pattern, traffic pattern | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | itinerary, path, route | ||
| Part holonym | approach, approach path, glide path, glide slope | ||
| 8. | pattern (communication) 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | graph, graphical record | ||
| Part holonym | lobe | ||
English verb: pattern | |||
| 1. | pattern (creation) plan or create according to a model or models | ||
| Synonyms | model | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | copy, imitate, simulate | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | scale, sovietise, sovietize | ||
| 2. | pattern (stative) form a pattern | ||
| Samples | These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Something is ----ing PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally | ||
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