Definition: a customary way of operation or behavior
Usage: it is their practice to give annual raises; they changed their dietary pattern
Main entry: design, figure, pattern
Definition: a decorative or artistic work
Usage: the coach had a design on the doors
Main entry: 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
Main entry: design, blueprint, pattern
Definition: something intended as a guide for making something else
Usage: a blueprint for a house; a pattern for a skirt
Main entry: 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
Main entry: pattern
Definition: a model considered worthy of imitation
Usage: the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics
Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: pattern
Definition: form a pattern
Usage: These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before