Meaning

Model, example..

Definitions by Sense

1. Model, example.
2. Coherent or decorative arrangement.
3. (Singapore, informal) A wont or habit to cause an annoyance or bother; to stir up trouble
4. (Ireland, Roman Catholicism) The devotions that take place within a parish on the feast day of the patron saint of that parish.
5. To apply a pattern.
6. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
7. To follow an example.
8. To fit into a pattern.

Example Sentences

This guy always chut pattern like badminton.

[A temple] patterned […] from that which Adam reared in Paradise.

Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command.

Although there is no direct evidence for the identification of *θi as a genuine prefix in this word, it patterns well with the other discussed instances of *θi- both morphologically and semantically.

MALACHI: Are you two fucking mad? Listen, you need to pattern up, you know?

"Not to me," interrupted his sister. "I will have no straw-bonneted, gingham-gowned pattern wives in my acquaintance. I shall make a point of cutting you."

The parish duty was better attended to, and perhaps domestic duties also. At such period he was a pattern parson and a pattern husband, atoning to his own conscience for past shortcomings by present zeal.

Word Forms

• patterns
• patterning
• patterned

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Use pattern when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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