Pattern
['pæt(ə)n] or ['pætɚn]
Definition
(noun.) a model considered worthy of imitation; 'the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics'.
(verb.) form a pattern; 'These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before'.
Checker: Sumner--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
(n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
(n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
(n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
(n.) Something made after a model; a copy.
(n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
(n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
(v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
(v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
Checker: Merle
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Exemplar, model, archetype, prototype, original, precedent.[2]. Specimen, sample, example, instance.[3]. Figure, style, shape.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Model, sample, archetype, exemplar, specimen, shape, precedent, mould, design,plan
ANT:Monstrosity, caricature, perversion, misrepresentation
Checker: McDonald
Definition
n. a person or thing to be copied: a model: an example: style of ornamental work: anything to serve as a guide in forming objects: the distribution of shot in a target at which a gun is fired.—ns. Patt′ern-book a book containing designs of lace &c. or in which patterns of cloth &c. are pasted; Patt′ern-box in weaving a box at each side of a loom containing the various shuttles that may be used; Patt′ern-card a piece of cardboard on which specimens of cloth are fixed; Patt′ern-mak′er one who makes the patterns for moulders in foundry-work; Patt′ern-shop the place in which patterns for a factory are prepared; Patt′ern-wheel the count-wheel in a clock movement.
Inputed by Hilary
Examples
- I recollect this same chambermaid was a pattern of town prettiness and smartness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They lighted up Rebecca's figure to admiration, as she sat on a sofa covered with a pattern of gaudy flowers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Although she is dressed very neatly, her clothes show a sad want of taste in colour and pattern. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She was a strange figure in the class-room, wearing a large, old cloak of greenish cloth, on which was a raised pattern of dull gold. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They were in that respect, as in all others, a pattern to married people. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Whether such a state is or ever will be matters not; he will act according to that pattern and no other. Plato. The Republic.
- Shall I put up the pattern of mittens? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A few men, philosophers or lovers of wisdom--or truth--may by study learn at least in outline the proper patterns of true existence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When yarn is dyed, the coloring matter penetrates to every part of the fiber, and hence the patterns formed by the weaving together of well-dyed yarns are very fast to light and water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Bar was a man of great variety; but one leading thread ran through the woof of all his patterns. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They mould the softened rubber over clay patterns in the form of shoes, jars, vases, tubes, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We're like patterns stencilled on a wall. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- One day Dan happened to mention that he thought of buying three or four silk dress patterns for presents. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She had furled her parasol and sat absently drawing patterns on the gravel. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- These are sold in various patterns from the Colonial design, like the illustration shown (Fig. 11), to those patterned after the Grecian urn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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