pattern
noun
1. a perceptual structure
- a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them
Definition categories: thought, structure
2. a customary way of operation or behavior
- they changed their dietary pattern
Similar word(s): practice
Definition categories: act, activity
3. a decorative or artistic work
Similar word(s): design, figure
Definition categories: man–made, decoration, ornament, ornamentation
4. something regarded as a normative example
Similar word(s): convention, formula, normal, rule
Definition categories: thought, practice
5. a model considered worthy of imitation
- the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics
Definition categories: thought, example, exemplar, model
6. something intended as a guide for making something else
- a pattern for a skirt
Similar word(s): blueprint, design
Definition categories: thought, plan, program, programme
7. 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
Definition categories: location, itinerary, path, route
8. graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
Definition categories: communication, graph
Sentences with pattern as a noun:
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