pattern

noun

template, guide, or model from which items can be constructed
ornamental design applied to or incorporated in the surface of an object, generally consisting of repeated motifs or elements
discernible regularity in the world or in a manmade design
Irish term for saint's feast day

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verb

arrange according to a design

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈpæ̞t(ə)n/ / /ˈpætɚn/ / [ˈpæɾɚn]

adj

Etymology: From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”). Doublet of padrone, patron, Patronus, and patroon.

Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal.
“"Not to me," interrupted his sister. "I will have no straw-bonneted, gingham-gowned pattern wives in my acquaintance. I shall make a point of cutting you."”
“The parish duty was better attended to, and perhaps domestic duties also. At such period he was a pattern parson and a pattern husband, atoning to his own conscience for past shortcomings by present zeal.”

noun

Model, example.
“The wallpaper had a floral pattern.”
“There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern.”
Model, example.
“Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.”
“I write this to repeat most earnestly for myself all that she said to you and to let you know how sure I am that you will sooner or later find our cousin John a pattern of truth, sincerity, and goodness, when you will deeply, deeply grieve to have done him (without intending it) so much wrong.”
Model, example.
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Model, example.
“From this point those who became pupils went on to a further series of shops, usually commencing with the pattern shop. […] However, some of us did make quite reasonable patterns and had the satisfaction of seeing castings produced from them but, sad to say, many of these efforts were used as firewood after they had left the shop.”
“But instead, the distinctive ironwork and glass platform awnings have been carefully refurbished, while making them compatible with the overhead wiring. Kettering's island Platform 2/3 is especially noteworthy. Although it dates from 1879, when the station was enlarged to four platforms, the same original (1857) patterns for the delicate cast-ironwork seem to have been used - […].”
Model, example.
“There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.”
Model, example.
Coherent or decorative arrangement.
“On my way to work the other day, I stopped at a church in Rome and saw a painting of the Madonna. The subtle pattern of blues and golds in the embroidery of her dress was so amazing that I used it to design a new evening dress for my haute couture.”
Coherent or decorative arrangement.
“He lifted the entire joint or fowl up into the air, speared on a carving fork, and sliced pieces off it so that they fell on the plate below in perfectly organised patterns.”
Coherent or decorative arrangement.
Coherent or decorative arrangement.
“follow a pattern”
“There’s a clear pattern of behavior emerging.”
Coherent or decorative arrangement.
Coherent or decorative arrangement.
“Pattern 10 is open in figure 3.9, showing the 64 notes in the pattern (each pattern in this song has 64 beats).”
“A MOD file contains a number of short audio samples, and instructions or a “pattern” for how and when those samples are to be played.”
Coherent or decorative arrangement.
“For example, at one point it claims that in order to view a pattern capable of reproduction and evolution, one would need a computer with a screen the size of the solar system, and the pattern would be so sparse anyway as to be almost unobservable.”
“The state of the pattern after 1.25 * 10^12 generations is here:”
Coherent or decorative arrangement.
“I got so much of it, my cousins think I've got a pattern with Celine And that I'm lyin', when I say that I do no get it for free”
A wont or habit to cause an annoyance or bother; to stir up trouble
“This guy always chut pattern like badminton.”
The devotions that take place within a parish on the feast day of the patron saint of that parish.

verb

To apply a pattern.
To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
“[A temple] patterned […] from that which Adam reared in Paradise.”
To follow an example.
“Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command.”
To fit into a pattern.
“Although there is no direct evidence for the identification of *θi as a genuine prefix in this word, it patterns well with the other discussed instances of *θi- both morphologically and semantically.”
To serve as an example for.
To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours.
To arrange, to organise, to fix.
“MALACHI: Are you two fucking mad? Listen, you need to pattern up, you know?”
To arrange, to organise, to fix.
“Pattern gang, who they patterning? Pull up, skrr, have them panicking.”
“Batteries already included, man just shoot it. Trying to pattern your bruces (all of them).”
To arrange, to organise, to fix.
“The system can't pattern me out or pattern me down, I'll pattern these clowns. They tried block my path, I built my own. Ya dun know, better start patterning now.”
“Let me pattern these boys on time.”
To arrange, to organise, to fix.
“Pretty girls wanna beat, wanna pattern.”
“My gal so fine, pattern her. Sorry, little nigga, better pattern up.”
To arrange, to organise, to fix.
“You know man's patterned, man's still slanging. Pack just vanished, all raw, no magic.”
“Bro thinks I'm booky, cah I ain't tryna sell him shit. Gotta peb this brick, on the next one I'll pattern him.”
To arrange, to organise, to fix.
“Oh, you mad? Then come at me, you prick. Make a move, better pattern it quick.”
“Me and bro tryna pattern this grow. We ain't editin' pictures but I'm still croppin'.”