Pattern and Practice

noun

• 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

verb

• 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.

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

noun

• A customary way of operation or behavior.
  • usage: "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
  • synonyms: pattern
• Systematic training by multiple repetitions.
  • usage: "practice makes perfect"
  • synonyms: exercise, drill, practice session, recitation
• Translating an idea into action.
  • usage: "a hard theory to put into practice"; "differences between theory and praxis of communism"
  • synonyms: praxis
• The exercise of a profession.
  • usage: "the practice of the law"; "I took over his practice when he retired"
• Knowledge of how something is usually done.
  • usage: "it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner"

verb

• Carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions.
  • usage: "practice law"
  • synonyms: practise, exercise, do
• Learn by repetition.
  • usage: "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"
  • synonyms: drill, exercise, practise
• Engage in a rehearsal (of.
  • synonyms: rehearse, practise
• Avail oneself to.
  • usage: "apply a principle"; "practice a religion"; "use care when going down the stairs"; "use your common sense"; "practice non-violent resistance"
  • synonyms: apply, use
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: commit

• (n.) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
• (v.t.) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
• (v.i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, especially by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, especially that of medicine or of law.
• (n.) Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
• (n.) Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.
• (v.t.) To make use of; to employ.
• (v.i.) To learn by practice; to form a habit.
• (v.t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
• (v.t.) To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
• (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
• (n.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
• (v.i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
• (n.) Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.
• (v.t.) To exercise or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
• (n.) Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
• (v.i.) To try artifices or stratagems.
• (v.t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
• (n.) Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
• (n.) Customary or constant use; state of being used.