Pattern and Study

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.

study

A detailed critical inspection.
- synonyms: survey
Applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading. )
- usage: "mastering a second language requires a lot of work"; "no schools offer graduate study in interior design"
- synonyms: work
A written document describing the findings of some individual or group.
- usage: "this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale"
- synonyms: report, written report
A state of deep mental absorption.
- usage: "she is in a deep study"
A room used for reading and writing and studying.
- usage: "he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study"
A branch of knowledge.
- usage: "in what discipline is his doctorate"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
- synonyms: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, bailiwick
Preliminary drawing for later elaboration.
- usage: "he made several studies before starting to paint"
- synonyms: sketch
Attentive consideration and meditation.
- usage: "after much cogitation he rejected the offer"
- synonyms: cogitation
Someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play. )
- usage: "he is a quick study"
A composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique.
- usage: "a study in spiccato bowing"

Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.
- usage: "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"
- synonyms: analyze, analyse, examine, canvass, canvas
Be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning.
Give careful consideration to.
- usage: "consider the possibility of moving"
- synonyms: consider
Be a student of a certain subject.
- usage: "She is reading for the bar exam"
- synonyms: learn, read, take
Learn by reading books.
- usage: "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now"
- synonyms: hit the books
Think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes.
- usage: "He is meditating in his study"
- synonyms: meditate, contemplate

(v.i.) A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work.
(v.i.) Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.
(n.) To apply the mind to books or learning.
(v.t.) To form or arrange by previous thought; to con over, as in committing to memory; as, to study a speech.
(v.i.) A piece for special practice. See Etude.
(n.) To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
(v.i.) A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts or science or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.
(v.i.) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.
(v.t.) To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature.
(v.i.) Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
(v.t.) To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.
(n.) To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
(v.t.) To make an object of study; to aim at sedulously; to devote one's thoughts to; as, to study the welfare of others; to study variety in composition.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary