Something that repeats in a predictable way is a pattern. You might find a pattern in a series of numbers, in the material covering your couch, or in the habits of your upstairs neighbor.
Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated;
Noun
a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
Noun
a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors"
Noun
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"
Noun
something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
Noun
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"
Noun
a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
Noun
graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
Noun
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"
Verb
plan or create according to a model or models
Verb
form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"
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.
Pattern
I will be the pattern of all patience.2.
He compares the pattern with the whole piece.3.
The patterns of things in the heavens.6.
Pattern
[A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise.2.
Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated;
To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
Usage Examples
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.
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Other Usage ExamplesI think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.
But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
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