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Synonyms for pattern

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for pattern

one that is worthy of imitation or duplication

the external outline of a thing

an element or a component in a decorative composition

to take as a model or make conform to a model

to create by combining parts or elements

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Synonyms for pattern

something regarded as a normative example

a model considered worthy of imitation

something intended as a guide for making something else

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

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

plan or create according to a model or models

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The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.
But I know she was studying that pattern, and I am determined that nobody shall find it out but myself!
I lie here on this great immovable bed--it is nailed down, I believe--and follow that pattern about by the hour.
Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.
The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.
The outside pattern is a florid arabesque, reminding one of a fungus.
He thought I was asleep first, but I wasn't, and lay there for hours trying to decide whether that front pattern and the back pattern really did move together or separately.
On a pattern like this, by daylight, there is a lack of sequence, a defiance of law, that is a constant irritant to a normal mind.
And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don't like it a bit.
The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.
One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.
Lebrun packed up his paints and brushes, Percerin put back the dresses into the closet, Aramis put his hand on his pocket to assure himself the patterns were secure, - and they all left the study.
According to the definition of closed graph pattern, all closed graph mining algorithms will output these five substructures.