pattern

Words with a similar base: approach_pattern, pattern, radiation_pattern, traffic_pattern

'pattern'

[form.n.03] as in: a perceptual structure

Examples:
the composition presents problems for students of musical form
a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them

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'pattern'

[practice.n.01] as in: a customary way of operation or behavior

Examples:
it is their practice to give annual raises
they changed their dietary pattern

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'pattern'

[design.n.04] as in: a decorative or artistic work

Examples:
the coach had a design on the doors

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'pattern'

[convention.n.02] as in: something regarded as a normative example

Examples:
the convention of not naming the main character
violence is the rule not the exception
his formula for impressing visitors

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'pattern'

[pattern.n.05] as in: a model considered worthy of imitation

Examples:
the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics

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'pattern'

[blueprint.n.01] as in: something intended as a guide for making something else

Examples:
a blueprint for a house
a pattern for a skirt

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'pattern'

[traffic_pattern.n.01] as in: the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport

Examples:
the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded
they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted

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'pattern'

[radiation_pattern.n.01] as in: graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle

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'pattern'

[model.v.01] as in: plan or create according to a model or models

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'pattern'

[pattern.v.02] as in: form a pattern

Examples:
These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before

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