<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.</li><li>decoration or ornament having such a design.</li><li>a natural or chance marking, configuration, or design: patterns of frost on the window.</li><li>a distinctive style, model, or form: a new pattern of army helmet.</li><li>a combination of qualities, acts, tendencies, etc., forming a consistent or characteristic arrangement: the behavior patterns of teenagers.</li><li>an original or model considered for or deserving of imitation: Our constitution has been a pattern for those of many new republics.</li><li>anything fashioned or designed to serve as a model or guide for something to be made: a paper pattern for a dress.</li><li>a sufficient quantity of material for making a garment.</li><li>the path of flight established for an aircraft approaching an airport at which it is to land.</li><li>a diagram of lines transmitted occasionally by a television station to aid in adjusting receiving sets; test pattern.</li><li>Metallurgy. a model or form, usually of wood or metal, used for giving the shape of the interior of a mold.</li><li>Numismatics. a coin, either the redesign of an existing piece or the model for a new one, submitted for authorization as a regular issue.</li><li>an example, instance, sample, or specimen.</li><li>Gunnery, Aerial Bombing. the distribution of strikes around a target at which artillery rounds have been fired or on which bombs have been dropped; a diagram showing such distribution.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to make or fashion after or according to a pattern.</li><li>to cover or mark with a pattern.</li><li>Chiefly British Dialect. to imitate.</li><li>to attempt to match or duplicate.</li><li>to make or fall into a pattern.</li></ul>