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pattern

noun
  1. a customary way of operation or behavior
    practice
  2. a decorative or artistic work
    figuredesign
  3. something regarded as a normative example
    conventionnormalruleformula
  4. something intended as a guide for making something else
    designblueprint
  5. a perceptual structure
    shape
  6. a model considered worthy of imitation
    “the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics”
  7. graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
    radiation patternradiation diagram
  8. 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”
    approach pattern
verb
  1. plan or create according to a model or models
    model
  2. form a pattern
    “These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before”