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Definition of Pattern

Pattern

  1. A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
  2. 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.
  3. A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
  4. Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
  5. Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
  6. Something made after a model; a copy.
  7. Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
  8. 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.
  9. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
  10. To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.

Pattern Quotations

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William Shakespeare

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
Sai Baba

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.
Ernest Hemingway

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Pattern Translations

pattern in Afrikaans is patroon, skema
pattern in Dutch is patroon, knippatroon
pattern in Finnish is kaava
pattern in German is Bitmuster, Vorlage
pattern in Italian is esemplare, campione di merce
pattern in Latin is exemplar, exemplum

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