PATTERNS - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Meaning 1

Part of speech: Noun

a decorative or artistic work

Example: the coach had a design on the doors

Meaning 2

Part of speech: Noun

a customary way of operation or behavior

Example: it is their practice to give annual raises; they changed their dietary pattern

Meaning 3

Part of speech: Noun

something regarded as a normative example

Example: the convention of not naming the main character; violence is the rule not the exception; his formula for impressing visitors

Meaning 4

Part of speech: Noun

something intended as a guide for making something else

Example: a blueprint for a house; a pattern for a skirt

Meaning 5

Part of speech: Noun

a perceptual structure

Example: the composition presents problems for students of musical form; a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them

Meaning 6

Part of speech: Noun

a model considered worthy of imitation

Example: the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics

Meaning 7

Part of speech: Noun

graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle

Meaning 8

Part of speech: Noun

the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport

Example: the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded; they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted

Meaning 9

Part of speech: Verb

plan or create according to a model or models

Meaning 10

Part of speech: Verb

form a pattern

Example: These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before