Patterned vs Figurative - What's the difference?
patterned | figurative |
Conform to a pattern, a model to be followed.
(pattern)
Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".
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Metaphorically so called
With many figures of speech
Emblematic; representative
* Hooker
* J. A. Symonds
As adjectives the difference between patterned and figurative
is that patterned is conform to a pattern, a model to be followed while figurative is metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".As a verb patterned
is past tense of pattern.patterned
English
Adjective
(-)- The Royal Navy kept patterned''' birches and '''patterned canes at the principal dockyards as specimens, intending to standardize the main implements used for formal corporal punishment on its ships
Verb
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* *figurative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This, they will say, was figurative , and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.
- They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.