pattern
英 ['pæt(ə)n]
美['pætɚn]
	    - n. 模式;图案;样品
 - vt. 模仿;以图案装饰
 - vi. 形成图案
 
英英释意
- 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