pattern

a customary way of operation or behavior

“they changed their dietary pattern”

form a pattern

“These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before”

a perceptual structure

“a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them”

something intended as a guide for making something else

“a pattern for a skirt”

a decorative or artistic work

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”

something regarded as a normative example

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

a model considered worthy of imitation

“the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics”