patterns

Noun

• a perceptual structure
• a customary way of operation or behavior
• a decorative or artistic work
• something regarded as a normative example
• a model considered worthy of imitation
• something intended as a guide for making something else
• 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"
• graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
• plural of pattern

Verb

• plan or create according to a model or models
• form a pattern
• third-person singular simple present indicative of pattern

Synonyms

approach pattern, blueprint, convention, design, figure, form, formula, model, normal, pattern, practice, radiation diagram, radiation pattern, rule, shape, traffic pattern