1.a perceptual structure;
the composition presents problems for students of musical form
2.a customary way of operation or behavior;
it is their practice to give annual raises
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
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
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
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