Definitions for patterning

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patterning pat·tern·ing

Spelling: [pat-er-ning]

IPA: /ˈpæt ər nɪŋ/

Patterning is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 571 anagrams from letters in patterning (aeginnprtt).

Definitions for patterning

noun

1. a design or decoration formed by the creative arrangement or formation of patterns.
2. the following of a specific pattern of movement, as in a dance or exercise:
3. a system of physical therapy in which a pattern of specific movements is practiced or imposed regularly as a way of improving, restoring, or stimulating muscular coordination, especially in brain-damaged or disabled persons.
4. a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
5. decoration or ornament having such a design.
6. a natural or chance marking, configuration, or design:
7. a distinctive style, model, or form:
8. a combination of qualities, acts, tendencies, etc., forming a consistent or characteristic arrangement:
9. an original or model considered for or deserving of imitation:
10. anything fashioned or designed to serve as a model or guide for something to be made:
11. a sufficient quantity of material for making a garment.
12. the path of flight established for an aircraft approaching an airport at which it is to land.
13. a diagram of lines transmitted occasionally by a television station to aid in adjusting receiving sets; test pattern.
14. Metallurgy. a model or form, usually of wood or metal, used for giving the shape of the interior of a mold.
15. Numismatics. a coin, either the redesign of an existing piece or the model for a new one, submitted for authorization as a regular issue.
16. an example, instance, sample, or specimen.
17. 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 patterning

First recorded in 1860-65; pattern + -ing¹

Examples for patterning

Shutting your eyes to the obvious is only patterning after the ostrich.

So I put the facts to her as fair and calm as I could, patterning after Saxton's method.

A patterning of thin bars, usually of stone, in a window or other opening.

The patterning of the pillars with chevrons is also remarkable; and their capitals are altogether unique.

China has done away with the old educational regime and is patterning her new system after those of Christian lands.

patterning after the other boy, he had retained his coolness.

He finished with scrupulous minuteness, and was elaborate in decorations of patterning, gilding, &c.

"You haven't offended me," he said, patterning his response upon the White Queen.

Even in the enlargement and training of her army she is patterning after Japan and employing Japanese drill masters.

He asks questions, and, patterning after nature, he seldom answers them.