English > pattern: 10 senses > noun 2, act| Meaning | A customary way / way of operation or behavior. |
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| Example | "they changed their dietary pattern" |
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| Synonym | practice |
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| Narrower | biologism | Use of biological principles in explaining human especially social behavior |
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| calisthenics, callisthenics | The practice of calisthenic exercises |
| cannibalism | The practice of eating the flesh of your own kind |
| careerism | The practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity |
| cooperation | The practice of cooperating |
| custom, usage, usance | accepted or habitual practice |
| fashion | characteristic or habitual practice |
| featherbedding | The practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required |
| formalism | The practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms |
| habitude | habitual mode of behavior |
| lobbyism | The practice of lobbying |
| lynch law | The practice of punishing people by hanging without due process of law |
| mistreatment | The practice of treating (someone or something) badly |
| modernism | practices typical of contemporary life or thought |
| nonconformism | The practice of nonconformity / nonconformity / nonconformity |
| nudism, naturism | Going without clothes as a social practice |
| occult, occult arts | Supernatural practices and techniques |
| one-upmanship | The practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor |
| ornamentalism | The practice of ornamental display |
| peonage | The practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged |
| pluralism | The practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time / time |
| popery, papism | offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church |
| quotation | The practice of quoting from books or plays etc. |
| ritual | The prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies |
| ritualism | exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship |
| slavery, slaveholding | The practice of owning slaves |
| symbolism, symbolization, symbolisation | The practice of investing things with symbolic meaning / meaning |
| systematism | The habitual practice of systematization and classification |
| transvestism, transvestitism, cross dressing | The practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex |
| unwritten law | law based on customary behavior |
| Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
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| Spanish | costumbre, hábito, práctica |
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| Catalan | costum, hàbit, pràctica |
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| Verbs | pattern | form a pattern |
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English > pattern: 10 senses > noun 3, artifact| Meaning | A decorative or artistic work. |
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| Synonyms | design, figure |
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| Narrower | argyle, argyll | A design consisting of a pattern of varicolored diamonds on a solid background (originally / originally for knitted articles) |
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| bear claw | An incised design resembling the claw of a bear |
| damascene | A design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel |
| decal, decalcomania | Either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface |
| device | Any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery) |
| emblem | special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc. |
| herringbone, herringbone pattern | A pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way |
| linocut | A design carved in relief into a block of linoleum |
| mandala | Any of various geometric designs (usually circular) symbolizing the universe |
| marking | A pattern of marks |
| mihrab | (Islam) a design in the shape of niche in a Muslim prayer rug |
| motif, motive | A design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration |
| polka dot | design consisting of a pattern of regularly spaced circular spots |
| pyrograph | A design produced by pyrography |
| screen saver | (computer science) a moving design that appears on a computer screen when there has been no input for a specified period of time |
| sunburst | A design consisting of a central disk resembling the sun and rays emanating from it |
| tattoo | A design on the skin made by tattooing |
| tetraskelion, tetraskele | A figure consisting of four stylized human arms or legs (or bent lines) radiating from a center |
| triskelion, triskele | A figure consisting of three stylized human arms or legs (or three bent lines) radiating from a center |
| weave | Pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric |
| Broader | decoration, ornament, ornamentation | Something used to beautify |
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| Spanish | adorno, diseño, figura, patrón |
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| Catalan | disseny, figura |
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English > pattern: 10 senses > noun 4, cognition| Meaning | Something regarded as a normative example. |
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| Synonyms | convention, normal, rule, formula |
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| Narrower | code of conduct, code of behavior | A set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group |
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| mores | (sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group |
| universal | A behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings |
| Broader | practice | knowledge of how something is usually done |
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| Spanish | convención, fórmula, modelo, normal, norma, patrón, pauta, regla |
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| Catalan | convenció, fórmula, normal, norma, pauta, regla |
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