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pat⋅tern

  [pat-ern; Brit. pat-n]
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–noun
1. a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
2. decoration or ornament having such a design.
3. a natural or chance marking, configuration, or design: patterns of frost on the window.
4. a distinctive style, model, or form: a new pattern of army helmet.
5. a combination of qualities, acts, tendencies, etc., forming a consistent or characteristic arrangement: the behavior patterns of teenagers.
6. an original or model considered for or deserving of imitation: Our constitution has been a pattern for those of many new republics.
7. anything fashioned or designed to serve as a model or guide for something to be made: a paper pattern for a dress.
8. a sufficient quantity of material for making a garment.
9. the path of flight established for an aircraft approaching an airport at which it is to land.
10. a diagram of lines transmitted occasionally by a television station to aid in adjusting receiving sets; test pattern.
11. Metallurgy. a model or form, usually of wood or metal, used for giving the shape of the interior of a mold.
12. Numismatics. a coin, either the redesign of an existing piece or the model for a new one, submitted for authorization as a regular issue.
13. an example, instance, sample, or specimen.
14. Gunnery, Aerial Bombing.
a. the distribution of strikes around a target at which artillery rounds have been fired or on which bombs have been dropped.
b. a diagram showing such distribution.
–verb (used with object)
15. to make or fashion after or according to a pattern.
16. to cover or mark with a pattern.
17. Chiefly British Dialect.
a. to imitate.
b. to attempt to match or duplicate.
–verb (used without object)
18. to make or fall into a pattern.
Origin:
1325–75; ME patron < ML patrōnus model, special use of L patrōnus patron

Related forms:
pat⋅tern⋅a⋅ble, adjective
patterned, adjective
pat⋅tern⋅er, noun
pat⋅tern⋅less, adjective
pat⋅tern⋅like, adjective
pat⋅tern⋅y, adjective

Synonyms:
1. figure. 4. kind, sort. 6. example, exemplar.
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pat·tern   (pāt'ərn)   
n.  
    1. A model or original used as an archetype.
    2. A person or thing considered worthy of imitation.
    3. An artistic or decorative design: a paisley pattern. See Synonyms at figure.
    4. A design of natural or accidental origin: patterns of bird formations.
    5. A composite of traits or features characteristic of an individual or a group: one's pattern of behavior.
    6. Form and style in an artistic work or body of artistic works.
    7. The configuration of gunshots upon a target that is used as an indication of skill in shooting.
    8. The distribution and spread, around a targeted region, of spent shrapnel, bomb fragments, or shot from a shotgun.
  2. A plan, diagram, or model to be followed in making things: a dress pattern. See Synonyms at ideal.
  3. A representative sample; a specimen.
    1. An artistic or decorative design: a paisley pattern. See Synonyms at figure.
    2. A design of natural or accidental origin: patterns of bird formations.
    3. A composite of traits or features characteristic of an individual or a group: one's pattern of behavior.
    4. Form and style in an artistic work or body of artistic works.
    5. The configuration of gunshots upon a target that is used as an indication of skill in shooting.
    6. The distribution and spread, around a targeted region, of spent shrapnel, bomb fragments, or shot from a shotgun.
  5. A consistent, characteristic form, style, or method, as:
    1. A composite of traits or features characteristic of an individual or a group: one's pattern of behavior.
    2. Form and style in an artistic work or body of artistic works.
    3. The configuration of gunshots upon a target that is used as an indication of skill in shooting.
    4. The distribution and spread, around a targeted region, of spent shrapnel, bomb fragments, or shot from a shotgun.
    1. The configuration of gunshots upon a target that is used as an indication of skill in shooting.
    2. The distribution and spread, around a targeted region, of spent shrapnel, bomb fragments, or shot from a shotgun.
  7. Enough material to make a complete garment.
  8. A test pattern.
  9. The flight path of an aircraft about to land: a flight pattern.
  10. Football A pass pattern.
v.   pat·terned, pat·tern·ing, pat·terns

v.   tr.
  1. To make, mold, or design by following a pattern: We patterned this plan on the previous one. My daughter patterned her military career after her father's.
  2. To cover or ornament with a design or pattern.
v.   intr.
To make a pattern.

[Middle English patron, from Old French; see patron.]
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Pattern

Pat"tern\, n. (Gun.) A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.

Pattern

Pat"tern\, n. [OE. patron, F. patron, a patron, also, a pattern. See Patron.]

1. Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

I will be the pattern of all patience. --Shak.

2. A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.

He compares the pattern with the whole piece. --Swift.

3. Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.

4. Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.

5. Something made after a model; a copy. --Shak.

The patterns of things in the heavens. --Heb. ix. 23.

6. Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.

7. (Founding) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.

Pattern box, chain, or cylinder (Figure Weaving), devices, in a loom, for presenting several shuttles to the picker in the proper succession for forming the figure.

Pattern card. (a) A set of samples on a card. (b) (Weaving) One of the perforated cards in a Jacquard apparatus.

Pattern reader, one who arranges textile patterns.

Pattern wheel (Horology), a count-wheel.

Pattern

Pat"tern\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patterned; p. pr. & vb. n. Patterning.]

1. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. --Milton.

[A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise. --Sir T. Herbert.

2. To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.

To pattern after, to imitate; to follow.
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Language Translation for : pattern
Spanish: patrón, modelo,
German: das Muster,
Japanese: 型
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pattern  (n.)
1324, "the original proposed to imitation; the archetype; that which is to be copied; an exemplar" [Johnson], from O.Fr. patron, from M.L. patronus (see patron). Extended sense of "decorative design" first recorded 1582, from earlier sense of a "patron" as a model to be imitated. The difference in form and sense between patron and pattern wasn't firm till 1700s. Meaning "model or design in dressmaking" (especially one of paper) is first recorded 1792, in Jane Austen. Verb phrase pattern after "take as a model" is from 1878.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Pattern

In technical analysis, the distinctive formation created by the movement of security prices on a chart. It is identified by a line connecting common price points (closing prices, highs, lows) over a period of time. Chartists try to identify patterns to try to anticipate the future price direction. Also known as "trading pattern".

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Patterns in security prices occur daily. However, although the various kinds of price patterns may in hindsight be easy to understand and see on paper, it is much harder to spot, and trade these formations in real time. There are many different kinds of patterns in technical analysis: the cup and handle, ascending/descending channels and, among others, the head-and-shoulders pattern.

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See also: Ascending Channel, Cup and Handle, Descending Channel, Head and Shoulders Pattern, Technical Analysis

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pattern

See chart formation.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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Main Entry: pat·tern
Pronunciation: 'pa-t&rn
Function: noun
1 : a form or model proposed for imitation
2 : a recognizably consistent series of related acts pattern of discrimination in that company> pattern of racketeering activity>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: pat·tern
Pronunciation: 'pat-&rn
Function: noun
1 : a model for making a mold used to form a casting
2 : a reliable sample of traits, acts, tendencies, or other observable characteristics of a person, group, or institution <patterns of behavior>
3 : an establishedmode of behavior or cluster of mental attitudes, beliefs, and values that are held in common by members of a group
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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