Pattern vs Sky - What's the difference?
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Model, example.
# Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
#* 1923 , ‘President Wilson’, Time , 18 Jun 1923:
# Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
#* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , I.16:
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# A representative example.
# (US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
# (textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
# (metalworking, dated) A full-sized model around which a mould 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 mould without damage.
# (computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.
Decorative arrangement.
# A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
#* 2003 , Valentino, ‘Is there a future in fashion's past?’, Time , 5 Feb 2003:
# A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.
#* 2011 , Rachel Cooke, The Observer , 19 Jun 2011:
# The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
# A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship.
#* 1980 , ‘Shifting Targets’, Time , 6 Oct 1980:
#* 2003 , Kate Hudson, The Guardian , 14 Aug 2003:
# (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
to apply a pattern
To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
* Sir T. Herbert
to follow an example
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to fit into a pattern
To serve as an example for.
(lb) A cloud.
The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.
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The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate etc.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky .
Heaven.
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(sports) to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.
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(colloquial, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen.
* The Century
(colloquial) to drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container
As a noun pattern
is model, example.As a verb pattern
is to apply a pattern.As an acronym sky is
s'uomen '''k'''ielitieteellinen ' y hdistys: linguistic association of finland.pattern
English
(wikipedia pattern)Noun
(en noun)- There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern .
- The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages.
- There were no files matching the pattern
*.txt.
- On my way to work the other day, I stopped at a church in Rome and saw a painting of the Madonna. The subtle pattern of blues and golds in the embroidery of her dress was so amazing that I used it to design a new evening dress for my haute couture.
- He lifted the entire joint or fowl up into the air, speared on a carving fork, and sliced pieces off it so that they fell on the plate below in perfectly organised patterns .
- The three killings pointed to an ugly new shift in the enduring pattern of violence in Northern Ireland: the mostly Protestant Ulster police, or those suspected of affiliation with them, have become more prominent targets for the I.R.A. than the British troops.
- Look again at how the US and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.
Synonyms
* original (1) * stencil (1) * tessellation (2) * category (3) * cycle (4) * similarity (5) * See alsoAntonyms
* antipatternDerived terms
* design patternVerb
(en verb)- [A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise.
Synonyms
* model * categorize (2)sky
English
Alternative forms
* skie (obsolete)Noun
(skies)Usage notes
Usually the word can be used correctly in either the singular or plural form, but the plural is now mainly poetic.Synonyms
* firmament * heaven *Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Verb
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- Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.