Meaning of "pattern" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PATTERN

Patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus example, from Latin: patron1.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PATTERN

pattern  [ˈpætən]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PATTERN

Pattern is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb pattern in English.

WHAT DOES PATTERN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pattern

A pattern, apart from the term's use to mean "Template", is a discernible regularity in the world or in a manmade design. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner. A geometric pattern is a kind of pattern formed of geometric shapes and typically repeating like a wallpaper. Any of the five senses may directly observe patterns. Conversely, abstract patterns in science, mathematics, or language may be observable only by analysis. Direct observation in practice means seeing visual patterns, which are widespread in nature and in art. Visual patterns in nature are often chaotic, never exactly repeating, and often involve fractals. Natural patterns include spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tilings, cracks, and those created by symmetries of rotation and reflection. Patterns have an underlying mathematical structure; indeed, mathematics can be seen as the search for regularities, and the output of any function is a mathematical pattern. Similarly in the sciences, theories explain and predict regularities in the world.

Definition of pattern in the English dictionary

The first definition of pattern in the dictionary is an arrangement of repeated or corresponding parts, decorative motifs, etc. Other definition of pattern is a decorative design. Pattern is also a style.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PATTERN

PRESENT

Present

I pattern

you pattern

he/she/it patterns

we pattern

you pattern

they pattern

Present continuous

I am patterning

you are patterning

he/she/it is patterning

we are patterning

you are patterning

they are patterning

Present perfect

I have patterned

you have patterned

he/she/it has patterned

we have patterned

you have patterned

they have patterned

Present perfect continuous

I have been patterning

you have been patterning

he/she/it has been patterning

we have been patterning

you have been patterning

they have been patterning

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I patterned

you patterned

he/she/it patterned

we patterned

you patterned

they patterned

Past continuous

I was patterning

you were patterning

he/she/it was patterning

we were patterning

you were patterning

they were patterning

Past perfect

I had patterned

you had patterned

he/she/it had patterned

we had patterned

you had patterned

they had patterned

Past perfect continuous

I had been patterning

you had been patterning

he/she/it had been patterning

we had been patterning

you had been patterning

they had been patterning

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will pattern

you will pattern

he/she/it will pattern

we will pattern

you will pattern

they will pattern

Future continuous

I will be patterning

you will be patterning

he/she/it will be patterning

we will be patterning

you will be patterning

they will be patterning

Future perfect

I will have patterned

you will have patterned

he/she/it will have patterned

we will have patterned

you will have patterned

they will have patterned

Future perfect continuous

I will have been patterning

you will have been patterning

he/she/it will have been patterning

we will have been patterning

you will have been patterning

they will have been patterning

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would pattern

you would pattern

he/she/it would pattern

we would pattern

you would pattern

they would pattern

Conditional continuous

I would be patterning

you would be patterning

he/she/it would be patterning

we would be patterning

you would be patterning

they would be patterning

Conditional perfect

I would have pattern

you would have pattern

he/she/it would have pattern

we would have pattern

you would have pattern

they would have pattern

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been patterning

you would have been patterning

he/she/it would have been patterning

we would have been patterning

you would have been patterning

they would have been patterning

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you pattern
we let´s pattern
you pattern

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to pattern

Past participle

patterned

Present Participle

patterning

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «PATTERN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pattern» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of pattern

archetype · arrangement · copy · criterion · cynosure · decorate · decoration · design · device · diagram · emulate · example · exemplar · figure · follow · form · guide · imitate · instructions · kind · method · model · motif · mould · norm · order · orderliness · original · ornament · par · paradigm · paragon · plan · prototype · sample · sequence · shape · sort · specimen · standard · stencil · style · system · template · trim · type · variety

TRANSLATION OF PATTERN

Find out the translation of pattern to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pattern from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pattern» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 式样
• Translator English - Spanish: patrón
• English: pattern
• Translator English - Hindi: पैटर्न
• Translator English - Arabic: نَـمَطٌ
• Translator English - Russian: схема
• Translator English - Portuguese: padrão
• Translator English - Bengali: প্যাটার্ন
• Translator English - French: motif
• Translator English - Malay: corak
• Translator English - German: Muster
• Translator English - Japanese: 模様
• Translator English - Korean: 무늬
• Translator English - Javanese: Pola
• Translator English - Vietnamese: mẫu hình
• Translator English - Tamil: முறை
• Translator English - Marathi: नमुना
• Translator English - Turkish: model
• Translator English - Italian: modello
• Translator English - Polish: wzór
• Translator English - Ukrainian: схема
• Translator English - Romanian: șablon
• Translator English - Greek: μοτίβο
• Translator English - Afrikaans: patroon
• Translator English - Swedish: mönster
• Translator English - Norwegian: mønster

10 QUOTES WITH «PATTERN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pattern.

1

Alfred Adler

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

2

Karen Armstrong

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.

3

Sai Baba

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

4

Julian Barnes

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

5

Kim Basinger

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

6

David A. Bednar

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.

7

Antony Beevor

The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.

8

Gerard Butler

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

9

Colin Camerer

It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening.

10

Al Capp

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PATTERN»

Discover the use of pattern in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pattern and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Two hundred and fifty-three archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design

Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, 1977

Combining Pattern Classifiers: Methods and Algorithms

These are just a few of the areas requiring reliable, precise pattern recognition.

Ludmila I. Kuncheva, 2004

Scroll Saw Pattern Book

Most patterns of the 450 plus are full-size, and range from simple wall plaques, alphabets and puzzles, to fine frames, shelves, and inlays. Make practical items like lamps—or gifts like jewelry.

‎1986

Support Vector Machines for Pattern Classification

The book presents architectures for multiclass classification and function approximation problems, as well as evaluation criteria for classifiers and regressors.

Shigeo Abe, 2010

Pattern Formation: An Introduction to Methods

Fully illustrated mathematical guide to pattern formation. Includes instructive exercises and examples.

Rebecca B. Hoyle, 2006

Pattern Recognition

This book considers classical and current theory and practice, of supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised pattern recognition, to build a complete background for professionals and students of engineering.

Sergios Theodoridis, Konstantinos Koutroumbas, 2008

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis with an Introduction to Crime ...

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis with an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction, Third Edition: Presents a specific and detailed taxonomy of bloodstain pattern characteristics Offers a full-color fold-out Decision Map to guide analysts ...

Tom Bevel, Ross M. Gardner, 2008

Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature

With this book, Dick Higgins has provided an indispensable tool for opening up the area of pattern poetry to the scholar and the lay reader alike, bringing order to what has been an obscure and confusing area, and delighting the eye and ...

Dick Higgins, 1987

Fuzzy Models and Algorithms for Pattern Recognition and ...

This book covers topics such as clustering and classifier design, with material on feature analysis relational clustering, image processing and computer vision.

James Keller, Raghu Krisnapuram, Nikhil R. Pal, 2005

Correlation Pattern Recognition

This 2005 book provides a needed review of this diverse background material and develops the signal processing theory, the pattern recognition metrics, and the practical application know-how from basic premises.

B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar, Abhijit Mahalanobis, Richard D. Juday, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PATTERN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pattern is used in the context of the following news items.

College students devise search pattern to rescue Skyway Bridge …

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Pattern Change Around the Corner?

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Angels Jered Weaver in a holding pattern

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Company Shares of Pattern Energy Group Inc. Drops by -8.43%

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Buffalo Wild Wings Seen In Holding Pattern in Q2 BWLD CMG …

Will Buffalo Wild Wings (NASDAQ:BWLD) gain altitude when it reports second-quarter results, or will it get its wings clipped? Investors will find ... «Investor's Business Daily, Jul 15»

Weekly Market Summary: Range Pattern Continues, Bigger …

For now, it's reasonable to assume that the multi-month trading range pattern will predominate, but a bigger correction very likely still lies ahead ... «Investing.com, Jul 15»

From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: New design pattern …

From the Dynamics NAV Team blog comes a pattern written by: Dale Gauci, Kimberly Congleton and Jens Winberg, Tim Grant, Alen Tot. «MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jul 15»

RIL gave decisive breakout above 'Flag Pattern'; likely to hit Rs 1145 …

The daily price trend has given a breakout of the "Flag" pattern formed between Rs 1,019 and Rs 983. It has a support at Rs 1019. If it holds ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»

J-P: Dry and hot pattern

REST OF THE AFTERNOON/EVENING: We'll be tracking only a few thunderstorms today. This is one of the drier days we've had with only a ... «FOX6 WBRC - MyFoxAL.com, Jul 15»

Blog: Wetter weather pattern on the horizon?

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