a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern";
a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors";
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";
something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt";
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";
a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics";
graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle;
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";
plan or create according to a model or models;
form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before";
