pattern

1. 1

   Model, example.

2. 2

   Model, example.; Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.

3. 3

   1923 June 18, ‘President Wilson’, Time

4. 4

   1923 June 18, ‘President Wilson’, Time: There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern.; There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern.

5. 5

   Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.

   • Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.
   • The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages.
6. 6

   A copy.archaic

7. 7

   A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.

8. 8

   A representative example.

9. 9

   The material needed to make a piece of clothing.US

10. 10

    The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.

syn. 4 · 5

ant. antipattern

1. 1

   To apply a pattern.

2. 2

   To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

   • [A temple] patterned […] from that which Adam reared in Paradise.
3. 3

   To follow an example.

   • Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command.
4. 4

   To fit into a pattern.

   • Although there is no direct evidence for the identification of *θi as a genuine prefix in this word, it patterns well with the other discussed instances of *θi- both morphologically and semantically.
5. 5

   To serve as an example for.transitive

6. 6

   To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours.transitive

7. 7

   To arrange, to organise, to fix.Multicultural-London-English

   • MALACHI: Are you two fucking mad? Listen, you need to pattern up, you know?
8. 8

   To arrange, to organise, to fix.; To assault.Multicultural-London-English

   • Pattern gang, who they patterning? Pull up, skrr, have them panicking.
   • Batteries already included, man just shoot it. Trying to pattern your bruces (all of them).
9. 9

   To arrange, to organise, to fix.; To teach someone a lesson.Multicultural-London-English

   • The system can't pattern me out or pattern me down, I'll pattern these clowns. They tried block my path, I built my own. Ya dun know, better start patterning now.
   • Let me pattern these boys on time.
10. 10

    To arrange, to organise, to fix.; To have sex with.Multicultural-London-English

    • Pretty girls wanna beat, wanna pattern.
    • My gal so fine, pattern her. Sorry, little nigga, better pattern up.

syn. model · categorize

1. 1

   Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal.not-comparable

   • "Not to me," interrupted his sister. "I will have no straw-bonneted, gingham-gowned pattern wives in my acquaintance. I shall make a point of cutting you."
   • The parish duty was better attended to, and perhaps domestic duties also. At such period he was a pattern parson and a pattern husband, atoning to his own conscience for past shortcomings by present zeal.