English to English
noun
- a perceptual structure
The composition presents problems for students of musical form.
A visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a customary way of operation or behavior
It is their practice to give annual raises.
They changed their dietary pattern.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a decorative or artistic work
The coach had a design on the doors.
source: WordNet 3.0
- something regarded as a normative example
The convention of not naming the main character.
Violence is the rule not the exception.
His formula for impressing visitors.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a model considered worthy of imitation
The American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics.
source: WordNet 3.0
- something intended as a guide for making something else
A blueprint for a house.
A pattern for a skirt.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport
The traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded.
They stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted.
source: WordNet 3.0
- graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
source: WordNet 3.0
- Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
source: Webster 1913
- A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
source: Webster 1913
verb
- plan or create according to a model or models
source: WordNet 3.0
- form a pattern
These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
noun
- [páttern] Parisán; mwestra; uliran; halimbawà
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
verb
- [páttern] Pumaris; kumuhang ulirán; tularan
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
