Pattern and Ordering

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.

ordering

Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements.
- usage: "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"
- synonyms: order, ordination
The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement.
- usage: "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"
- synonyms: order

Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.
- usage: "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"
- synonyms: order, tell, enjoin, say
Make a request for something.
- usage: "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"
- synonyms: order
Issue commands or orders for.
- synonyms: order, prescribe, dictate
Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.
- usage: "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
- synonyms: regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern
Bring order to or into.
- usage: "Order these files"
- synonyms: order
Place in a certain order.
- usage: "order the photos chronologically"
- synonyms: order
Appoint to a clerical posts.
- usage: "he was ordained in the Church"
- synonyms: ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order
Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events.
- usage: "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
- synonyms: arrange, set up, put, order
Assign a rank or rating to.
- usage: "how would you rank these students"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
- synonyms: rate, rank, range, order, grade, place

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary