Definition of Pattern

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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.

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Pattern Quotations

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

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

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

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
P. J. O'Rourke

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.
Douglas MacArthur

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey

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

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
Alfred Adler

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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