Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Design, structure, or configuration of a form, style, or method.
- noun A method of physical therapy in which a rigid pattern of exercises is used to stimulate weak or paralyzed nerves and muscles to act on their own.
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- verb Present participle of
pattern . - noun A
pattern .
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Examples
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I discover that there are 11 more rows to knit when the centre patterning is finished.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jean 2009
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The biggest difference in patterning, though, is between the good stuff like Remington Premier and Federal Flitecontrol and the cheap buckshot loads.
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The biggest difference in patterning, though, is between the good stuff like Remington Premier and Federal Flitecontrol and the cheap buckshot loads.
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I discover that there are 11 more rows to knit when the centre patterning is finished.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Where that sort of patterning is a matter of voice -- sentence-level style used as a way of subtly reinforcing point-of-view by mimicking a character's manner of articulation in the narrative itself, or by imbuing an absent narrator with their own distinct manner of articulation -- this is going to alter the drama of the narrative profoundly and pervasively.
Archive 2008-06-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Where that sort of patterning is a matter of voice -- sentence-level style used as a way of subtly reinforcing point-of-view by mimicking a character's manner of articulation in the narrative itself, or by imbuing an absent narrator with their own distinct manner of articulation -- this is going to alter the drama of the narrative profoundly and pervasively.
Translation and Style Hal Duncan 2008
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With a preliminary patterning from the "Not to" that frames the front of this qualifying clause
The Know of Not to Know It: My Returns to Reading and Teaching Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' - 2003
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Such numerical patterning is only one of many ways in which Moulsworth seeks to impose an order on the story of her life -- or rather, to discern the shapes and orders her life implies.
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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The sculptures show us that robes and draperies of all kinds were almost always more or less patterned; and this patterning, which is generally of an extremely elaborate kind, it is reasonable to conclude was the work of the needle.
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To walk around within its soaring pillars and to bask in the gentle light that pours through its exquisite windows is to experience a sense of participation in the very 'patterning' of the soul.
Prince Charles Reflects On 'Sacred Geometry' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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