Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“patterns” is a form of

pattern

UK /ˈpæ̞t(ə)n/ · US /ˈpætɚn/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms patterns patterning patterned

  1. noun Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline. “The wallpaper had a floral pattern.”
  2. noun Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
  3. noun (now rare) A copy.
  4. noun (now only numismatics) A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.
  5. noun A representative example.
  6. noun (US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
  7. noun (textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
  8. noun (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. verb To apply a pattern.
  10. verb To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
  11. verb To follow an example.
  12. verb To fit into a pattern.
  13. verb (transitive) To serve as an example for.
  14. verb (hunting, transitive) To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours.
  15. verb (MLE) To arrange, to organise, to fix.
  16. verb To assault.
  17. adjective Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal.

Synonyms

original stencil template tessellation 3 4 5 model categorize form shape practice design figure convention normal rule formula blueprint traffic pattern approach pattern radiation pattern radiation diagram

Antonyms

antipattern

Etymology

From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”). Doublet of padrone, patron, Patronus, and patroon.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
  2. noun A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
  3. verb To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. Milton.
  4. verb To serve as an example for; also, to parallel. To pattern after, to imitate; to follow.

Etymology [OE. patron, F. patron, a patron, also, a pattern. See Patron.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “pattern”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “pattern” (best matches first).