pattern
英 ['p?t(?)n]
美['p?t?n]
- n. 模式；圖案；樣品
- vt. 模仿；以圖案裝飾
- vi. 形成圖案
英英釋意
- 1. a perceptual structure;
- "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"
- "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
- 2. a customary way of operation or behavior;
- "it is their practice to give annual raises"
- "they changed their dietary pattern"
- 3. a decorative or artistic work;
- "the coach had a design on the doors"
- 4. something regarded as a normative example;
- "the convention of not naming the main character"
- "violence is the rule not the exception"
- "his formula for impressing visitors"
- 5. a model considered worthy of imitation;
- "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
- 6. something intended as a guide for making something else;
- "a blueprint for a house"
- "a pattern for a skirt"
- 7. 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"
- "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
- 8. graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle