pattern

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpat(ə)n/ or [ˈpaʔ(ə)n]

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• (US) IPA: /ˈpætərn/ or [ˈpæɾɚn]

Noun

Singular pattern

Plural patterns

A blue and white pattern

1. (countable) A pattern is a design that uses the same set of elements many times in the same order.

   The table cloth had a simple pattern of red and white squares.

2. (countable) The combined qualities and activities for an individual or a group of people describes a pattern.

   The people of Spain have a pattern of resting in the afternoon and eating dinner late at night.

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) pattern

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) patterns

Past tense (ya wuce) patterned

Past participle (ya wuce) patterned

Present participle (ana cikin yi) patterning

1. (transitive) When you pattern something, you make it using a pattern.

   Much of crime fiction is patterned from true police stories.

Translation of pattern (provided by Oxford University Press)

1. especially of garments <> samfùr, mṑdâl
2. drawing pattern <> zā̀nē

   a cloth with a bird pattern <> àtàmfā mài zane-zanen tsuntsū