Meaning & Definition of Pattern in English

1. 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"

2. A customary way of operation or behavior

• "It is their practice to give annual raises"

• "They changed their dietary pattern"

3. A decorative or artistic work

• "The coach had a design on the doors"

4. 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"

5. A model considered worthy of imitation

• "The american constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"

6. Something intended as a guide for making something else

• "A blueprint for a house"

• "A pattern for a skirt"

7. 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"

• "They stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"

8. Graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle

1. Plan or create according to a model or models

2. Form a pattern

• "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"