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Definition of Pattern

Pattern A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire. 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. A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance. Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern. Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern. Something made after a model; a copy. Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern. 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. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. To serve as an example for; also, to parallel. Related Definitions: After, Also, An, And, Anything, Archetype, Around, As, Be, Beautiful, By, Copied, Copy, Cut, Cutting, Decoration, Design, Diagram, Distribution, Dress, Dressmaker, Example, Exemplar, Figure, Fire, For, Formed, Forming, From, Garment, Guide, Imitate, Imitated, Imitation, In, Injuring, Instance, Is, It, Machine, Made, Make, Melted, Metal, Model, Mold, Of, On, Or, Paper, Parallel, Part, Pattern, Perpendicular, Plane, Proposed, Quality, Receive, Removed, Sample, Sand, Serve, Several, Shotgun, Showing, So, Something, Specimen, Stuff, Style, Sufficient, Target, That, The, To, Vertical, Wall, Which, Whole, Without, Wood, Worthy

Pattern Quotations No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing. William Shakespeare One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. Robert Graves I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern. Kate DiCamillo 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 We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. Henry Ward Beecher

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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