SkyfireDict

pattern   (TTS Sound)

The noun pattern has 8 senses

• form, shape, pattern -- (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")


• practice, pattern -- (a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern")


• design, pattern, figure -- (a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors")


• convention, normal, pattern, rule, formula -- (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")


• pattern -- (a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics")


• blueprint, design, pattern -- (something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt")


• traffic pattern, approach pattern, pattern -- (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")


• radiation pattern, radiation diagram, pattern -- (graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle)

The verb pattern has 2 senses

• model, pattern -- (plan or create according to a model or models)


• pattern -- (form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before")