Pattern | Mean of pattern in English Dictionary

/ˈpætɚn/

• Noun
• a repeated form or design especially that is used to decorate something
1. The dishes have a floral pattern around the rim.
2. The fabric comes in different colors and patterns.
3. The rug is decorated with a geometric pattern.
4. The shadows made a pattern of lines on the ground.
• the regular and repeated way in which something happens or is done
1. They are studying behavior patterns among high-school students.
2. Analysts are noticing different spending patterns by consumers.
3. The trees followed a characteristic pattern of growth.
4. Your symptoms fit the pattern of diabetes. [=your symptoms are the same as the symptoms of diabetes]
5. His daily routine followed a set pattern. [=it was always the same]
6. The book set the pattern [=created an example which is followed by others] for detective fiction.
• something that happens in a regular and repeated way
1. We have to find a way to break the pattern of violence. [=to make the violence stop]

• a shape or model that is used as a guide for making something
1. a dress pattern [=a large piece of paper that is used as a guide for cutting the cloth to make a dress]
• Verb
• to make or design (something) so that it is similar to something else of the same type
1. Her garden is patterned on [=modeled on] one she saw on her travels.
2. The new program is patterned after an earlier one.
• to decorate or mark (something) with a design
1. Animal tracks patterned the mud.
• to try to be like and to behave like (someone you admire)
1. When he started his own business, he patterned himself after [=modeled himself after] his father. [=he tried to do the things that his father would do]