Definitions for pattern

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pattern pat·tern

Spelling: [pat-ern; British pat-n]

IPA: /ˈpæt ərn; British ˈpæt n/

Pattern is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in pattern (aenprtt).

Definitions for pattern

noun

1. a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
2. decoration or ornament having such a design.
3. a natural or chance marking, configuration, or design:
4. a distinctive style, model, or form:
5. a combination of qualities, acts, tendencies, etc., forming a consistent or characteristic arrangement:
6. an original or model considered for or deserving of imitation:
7. anything fashioned or designed to serve as a model or guide for something to be made:
8. a sufficient quantity of material for making a garment.
9. the path of flight established for an aircraft approaching an airport at which it is to land.
10. a diagram of lines transmitted occasionally by a television station to aid in adjusting receiving sets; test pattern.
11. Metallurgy. a model or form, usually of wood or metal, used for giving the shape of the interior of a mold.
12. Numismatics. a coin, either the redesign of an existing piece or the model for a new one, submitted for authorization as a regular issue.
13. an example, instance, sample, or specimen.
14. Gunnery, Aerial Bombing. the distribution of strikes around a target at which artillery rounds have been fired or on which bombs have been dropped. a diagram showing such distribution.

verb (used with object)

1. to make or fashion after or according to a pattern.
2. to cover or mark with a pattern.
3. Chiefly British Dialect. to imitate. to attempt to match or duplicate.

verb (used without object)

1. to make or fall into a pattern.

Origin of pattern

1325-75; Middle English patron Medieval Latin patrōnus model, special use of Latin patrōnus patron

Examples for pattern

The endpaper features a “pattern of marbleized paper” that has been “individually designed.”

Although the Brits would capture New York City a few weeks later, a pattern had been set.

I would have told them, ‘Do not get into a pattern in which you’re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.

The construction of the furnaces is of the ordinary French pattern.

If I had seen it in the pattern I should have said it was impossible for your colouring.

In this she may be exhibited as a pattern for the particular imitation of her own sex.

You will not tire of it as you will of that which has but a commonplace form or pattern.

The loss of his life, and all the others from this summer, back to Trayvon and well before that, are part of a pattern.

It was precisely on the pattern of that worn by the visionary Maid.

And in so many of these events, the pattern of “blame the victim” was quickly in evidence.