Definition: a customary way of operation or behavior
Usage: it is their practice to give annual raises; they changed their dietary pattern
Similar words: activity
Definition: any specific behavior
Usage: they avoided all recreational activity
Synonyms: design, figure, pattern
Definition: a decorative or artistic work
Usage: the coach had a design on the doors
Similar words: decoration, ornament, ornamentation
Definition: something used to beautify
Synonyms: convention, formula, pattern, normal, rule
Definition: something regarded as a normative example
Usage: the convention of not naming the main character; violence is the rule not the exception; his formula for impressing visitors
Similar words: practice
Definition: knowledge of how something is usually done
Usage: it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner
Synonyms: design, blueprint, pattern
Definition: something intended as a guide for making something else
Usage: a blueprint for a house; a pattern for a skirt
Similar words: program, programme, plan
Definition: a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
Usage: they drew up a six-step plan; they discussed plans for a new bond issue
Synonyms: form, pattern, shape
Definition: a perceptual structure
Usage: the composition presents problems for students of musical form; a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them
Similar words: structure
Definition: the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
Usage: his lectures have no structure
Synonyms: pattern
Definition: a model considered worthy of imitation
Usage: the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics
Similar words: model, example, exemplar, good example
Definition: something to be imitated
Usage: an exemplar of success; a model of clarity; he is the very model of a modern major general
Synonyms: pattern, radiation diagram, radiation pattern
Definition: graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
Similar words: graph, graphical record
Definition: a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes
Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern, pattern
Definition: the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport
Usage: the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded; they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted
Definition: plan or create according to a model or models
Similar words: copy, simulate, imitate
Definition: reproduce someone's behavior or looks
Usage: The mime imitated the passers-by; Children often copy their parents or older siblings
Synonyms: pattern
Definition: form a pattern
Usage: These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before
Similar words: correspond, tally, jibe, match, fit, gibe, agree, check
Definition: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
Usage: The two stories don't agree in many details; The handwriting checks with the signature on the check; The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun