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English

Etymology

From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patr?nus (“patron”). Doublet of patron.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pat(?)n/, [?pa?(?)n]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæt??n/, [?pæ??n]
• Rhymes: -æt?(r)n

Noun

pattern (plural patterns)

1. Model, example.
   1. Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline. [from 14th c.]
      • 1923, ‘President Wilson’, Time, 18 Jun 1923:

        There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern.

   2. Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar. [from 15th c.]
      • 1793, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana, 19 March:

        Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.

      • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.16:

        The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages.

   3. (now rare) A copy. [from 15th c.]
   4. (now only numismatics) A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted. [from 16th c.]
   5. A representative example. [from 16th c.]
   6. (US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing. [from 17th c.]
   7. (textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
   8. (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.
   9. (computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.

      There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.

2. Coherent or decorative arrangement.
   1. A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements. [from 16th c.]
      • 2003, Valentino, ‘Is there a future in fashion's past?’, Time, 5 Feb 2003:

        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.

   2. A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect. [from 19th c.]
      • 2011, Rachel Cooke, The Observer, 19 Jun 2011:

        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.

   3. The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun. [from 19th c.]
   4. 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. [from 19th c.]
      • 1980, ‘Shifting Targets’, Time, 6 Oct 1980:

        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.

      • 2003, Kate Hudson, The Guardian, 14 Aug 2003:

        Look again at how the US and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.

   5. (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
   6. (computing, music) A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song.

Synonyms

• (1): original
• (1): stencil
• (2): tessellation
• (3): category
• (4): cycle
• (5): similarity
• See also Thesaurus:model

Antonyms

• antipattern

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pattern (third-person singular simple present patterns, present participle patterning, simple past and past participle patterned)

1. To apply a pattern.
2. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
   • 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great

     [A temple] patterned […] from that which Adam reared in Paradise.

3. To follow an example.
4. To fit into a pattern.
5. (transitive) To serve as an example for.

Synonyms

• model
• categorize

Translations

References

• pattern on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• reptant

English

Etymology

From Latin sch?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhêma, “form, shape”). Doublet of scheme.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sk??m?, IPA^(key): /?ski?m?/
• Hyphenation: sche?ma

Noun

schema (plural schemata or schemas)

1. An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).
2. (databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.
3. (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files.
4. (logic) A formula in the metalanguage of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.
5. (Christianity) A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.

Synonyms

• (universally-applicable image or outline): schemat
• (databases): schemat
• (logic): axiom schema, schemat

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• “schema” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

Anagrams

• mechas, sachem, samech, schame

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (skhêma, “form, shape”). The scientific sense is a semantic loan from French schéma.

Pronunciation

Noun

schema n (plural schema's or schemata, diminutive schemaatje n)

1. (general sense) visualisation, diagram
2. (sciences) conceptual model

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: skema

Italian

Etymology

From Latin schema, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhêma, “form, shape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?.ma/
• Rhymes: -?ma
• Hyphenation: schè?ma

Noun

schema m (plural schemi)

1. outline, schema, layout, diagram, plan, draft, project, arrangement

   Synonyms: diagramma, tracciato, piano, abbozzo, progetto, disposizione

2. pattern, mould, norm

   Synonyms: modello, struttura, norma

Related terms

• schematico
• schematismo
• schematizzare

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (skhêma, “form, shape”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sk?e?.ma/, [?s?k?e?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ske.ma/, [?sk??m?]

Noun

sch?ma f (genitive sch?mae); first declension
sch?ma n (genitive sch?matis); third declension

1. shape, figure, form, manner, posture
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Charisius to this entry?)
2. (rhetoric) figure of speech
3. (geometry) outline, figure

Declension

Related terms

• sch?matismos
• sch?matometria

Descendants

References

• sch?ma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• SCHEMA, Schemma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 1 sch?ma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,401/2”
• 2 sch?ma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,401/2”
• “sch?ma (sc?ma)” on page 1,702/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “schema”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 945/1

Swedish

Etymology

From German Schema, same as English scheme, used in Swedish since 1673.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?ma/

Noun

schema n

1. a schedule (time-based plan of events)
2. a scheme (systematic arrangement)
3. a diagram

Usage notes

• SAOL only lists neuter gender. The Greek plural schemata has also been used.

Declension

Related terms

• kopplingsschema
• skolschema

References

• schema in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• schema in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)