pattern

Forms

1.Model, example.
- The wallpaper had a floral pattern.
- There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.
- The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages.
2.Coherent or decorative arrangement.
- There’s a clear pattern of behavior emerging.
- Look again at how the US and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.
- Pattern 10 is open in figure 3.9, showing the 64 notes in the pattern (each pattern in this song has 64 beats).
3.A wont or habit to cause an annoyance or bother; to stir up trouble(informal)
- This guy always chut pattern like badminton.
4.The devotions that take place within a parish on the feast day of the patron saint of that parish.

1.To follow an example.
- Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command.
2.To apply a pattern.
3.To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
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.

Common· #1188

From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”).

Doublet of padrone, patron, Patronus, and patroon.