Meaning

Someone who or something which makes or uses a pattern..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone who or something which makes or uses a pattern.
2. Something which follows a pattern, or may be identified as part of a pattern.

Example Sentences

Between two tall blades in the clearing a spider had spun a web, a circle delicately suspended. The silver threads caught the sunlight. In the center the spinner waited, a gray-black thing no larger than the pupil of an eye. “She too is a patterner,” Ged said, studying the artful web.

When her head and trunk are turned right, her left leg and right arm are bent and her right leg and left arm are straightened out. When she is shifted to the left, legs and arms are moved in the opposite direction. The movements, called cross-pattern patterning, simulate the motion a normal body experiences effortlessly when it is walking.[…] When Mike finally calls "time," she is sweating and panting, and so are her father and the other patterners.

1. A method of producing a rotating, clamped stencil on which a pattern is produced by a patterner comprising the steps of: moving a patterning head of the patterner relative to the stencil; […]

the terms object patterners and verb patterners will be used here for those elements whose order tends to correlate with that of the object and verb respectively. Thus genitives are object patterners while the nouns they modify are verb patterners.

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