pattern

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1. 1.A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance. He compares the pattern with the whole piece. Swift.
2. 2.Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
3. 3.Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
4. 4.Something made after a model; a copy. Shak. The patterns of things in the heavens. Heb. ix.
5. 5.6. Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
6. 6.(Founding) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder (Figure Weaving), devices, in a loom, for presenting several shuttles to the picker in the proper succession for forming the figure. -- Pattern card. (a) A set of samples on a card. (b) (Weaving) One of the perforated cards in a Jacquard apparatus. -- Pattern reader, one who arranges textile patterns. -- Pattern wheel (Horology), a count-wheel.
7. 7.To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. Milton. [A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise. Sir T. Herbert.
8. 8.To serve as an example for; also, to parallel. To pattern after, to imitate; to follow. PATTINSON'S PROCESS Pat"tin*son's proc"ess. (Metal.) A process of desilverizing argentiferous lead by repeated meltings and skimmings, which concentrate the silver in the molten bath, the final skimmings being nearly pure lad. The processwas invented in 1833 by Hugh Lee Pattinson, an English metallurgist.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is a part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance. He compares the pattern with the whole piece. Swift called?
• What is stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern called?
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• What is something made after a model; a copy. Shak. The patterns of things in the heavens. Heb. ix called?
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