Pattern and Expression

pattern

A perceptual structure.
- usage: "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
- synonyms: form, shape
A customary way of operation or behavior.
- usage: "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
- synonyms: practice
A decorative or artistic work.
- usage: "the coach had a design on the doors"
- synonyms: design, figure
Something regarded as a normative example.
- usage: "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
- synonyms: convention, normal, rule, formula
A model considered worthy of imitation.
- usage: "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
Something intended as a guide for making something else.
- usage: "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
- synonyms: blueprint, design
The path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport.
- usage: "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
- synonyms: traffic pattern, approach pattern
Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle.
- synonyms: radiation pattern, radiation diagram

Plan or create according to a model or models.
- synonyms: model
Form a pattern.
- usage: "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

(n.) A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
(n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
(n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
(v.t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
(n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
(n.) A full-sized model around which a mold 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 mold without injuring it.
(n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
(v.t.) To make or design (anything) by, from or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Something made after a model; a copy.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Pattern is a technical chart formation used to make market predictions by following the price movements of securities.

expression

The feelings expressed on a person's face.
- usage: "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"
- synonyms: look, aspect, facial expression, face
Expression without words.
- usage: "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"
- synonyms: manifestation, reflection, reflexion
The communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions.
- usage: "expressions of good will"; "he helped me find verbal expression for my ideas"; "the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours"
- synonyms: verbal expression, verbalism
A word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations.
- usage: "pardon the expression"
- synonyms: saying, locution
The style of expressing yourself.
- usage: "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared"
- synonyms: formulation
A group of symbols that make a mathematical statement.
- synonyms: formula
Genetics) the process of expressing a gene. (
A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit.
- usage: "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"
- synonyms: construction, grammatical construction
The act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing.
- usage: "the expression of milk from her breast"

(n.) The representation of any quantity by its appropriate characters or signs.
(n.) The act of declaring or signifying; declaration; utterance; as, an expression of the public will.
(n.) The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.
(n.) That which is expressed by a countenance, a posture, a work of art, etc.; look, as indicative of thought or feeling.
(n.) A form of words in which an idea or sentiment is conveyed; a mode of speech; a phrase; as, a common expression; an odd expression.
(n.) Lively or vivid representation of meaning, sentiment or feeling, etc.; significant and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance or gesture; that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments; as, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary