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Type Words
Synonyms practice
Type of activity
Has types cross dressing, biologism, calisthenics, callisthenics, cannibalism, careerism, cooperation, custom, fashion, featherbedding, formalism, habitude, lobbyism, lynch law, mistreatment, modernism, naturism, nonconformism, nudism, occult, occult arts, one-upmanship, ornamentalism, papism, peonage, pluralism, popery, quotation, ritual, ritualism, slaveholding, slavery, symbolisation, symbolism, symbolization, systematism, transvestism, transvestitism, unwritten law, usage, usance


they changed their dietary pattern.
Type Words
Synonyms form, shape
Type of structure
Has types gestalt, fractal, strand, kaleidoscope, grid, mosaic


a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them.
Type Words
Synonyms blueprint, design
Type of plan, program, programme


a pattern for a skirt.
Type Words
Synonyms design, figure
Type of ornamentation, decoration, ornament
Has types decal, damascene, linocut, tattoo, emblem, screen saver, decalcomania, herringbone, triskele, triskelion, sunburst, mandala, polka dot, weave, pyrograph, argyle, argyll, bear claw, marking, mihrab, device, motif, motive, tetraskele, tetraskelion, herringbone pattern
Type Words
Synonyms approach pattern, traffic pattern
Type of itinerary, route, path


the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded.
they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted.
Type Words
Synonyms convention, formula, normal, rule
Type of practice
Has types code of behavior, mores, code of conduct, universal
Type Words
Synonyms radiation diagram, radiation pattern
Type of graphical recording, graphical record, graph
Type Words
Synonyms model
Type of imitate, simulate, copy
Has types sovietize, scale, sovietise
Type Words
Type of good example, exemplar, model, example


the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics.
Type Words
Type of correspond, jibe, match, tally, agree, check, fit, gibe


These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before.

Examples of pattern

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The ACLU says this case and others reflect a pattern of failures at the lockups.
From the stltoday.com
If there is a slight pattern to that amazingly disparate list, it's Shakespeare.
From the ocregister.com
This will allow the state to resume a more normal growth pattern, Fishkind said.
From the heraldtribune.com
For bigger fish, targeting the shad schools with spinnerbaits is a good pattern.
From the sacbee.com
The summer storm pattern brought significant precipitation to the Upper Midwest.
From the sciencedaily.com
In telegraphy, telephony, radio and television, a familiar pattern has unfolded.
From the nzherald.co.nz
There is a pattern throughout Key's life of setting aims and racing toward them.
From the nzherald.co.nz
By 80 years, three out of four men and half of women have male pattern baldness.
From the stltoday.com
The water was calm, the currents swirled in a strange pattern, friends recalled.
From the us.cnn.com
More examples
  • Form: 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"
  • Model: plan or create according to a model or models
  • Form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"
  • Practice: a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
  • Design: a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors"
  • Convention: 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"
  • A pattern, from the French patron, is a type of theme of recurring events or objects, sometimes referred to as elements of a set. These elements repeat in a predictable manner. ...
  • Pattern in architecture is the idea of capturing architectural design ideas as archetypal and reusable descriptions. The term "pattern" is usually attributed to Christopher Alexander , an Austrian born American architect. The patterns serve as an aid to design cities and buildings. ...
  • In casting, a pattern is a replica of the object to be cast, used to prepare the cavity into which molten material will be poured during the casting process.