pattern

1. pattern (noun) — sense 1

Definition: Model, example.: Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.

Example: The wallpaper had a floral pattern.

Concept: Закономерность

Polarities of the concept

2. pattern (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Model, example.: Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.

Example: Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.

3. pattern (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Model, example.: A copy.

4. pattern (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To apply a pattern.

5. pattern (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

Example: [A temple] patterned […] from that which Adam reared in Paradise.

6. pattern (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To follow an example.

Example: Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command.

7. pattern (adj) — sense 7

Definition: Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal.

Example: "Not to me," interrupted his sister. "I will have no straw-bonneted, gingham-gowned pattern wives in my acquaintance. I shall make a point of cutting you."