Pattern and Touch

pattern

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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

touch

noun

The event of something coming in contact with the body.
- usage: "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air"
- synonyms: touching
The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands. )
- usage: "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us"
- synonyms: sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
A suggestion of some quality.
- usage: "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
- synonyms: trace, ghost
A distinguishing style.
- usage: "this room needs a woman's touch"
- synonyms: signature
The act of putting two things together with no space between them.
- usage: "at his touch the room filled with lights"
- synonyms: touching
A slight but appreciable amount.
- usage: "this dish could use a touch of garlic"
- synonyms: hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon
A communicative interaction.
- usage: "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"
- synonyms: contact
A slight attack of illness.
- usage: "he has a touch of rheumatism"
- synonyms: spot
The act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan. )
- usage: "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch"
The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin.
- usage: "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"
- synonyms: touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling
Deftness in handling matters.
- usage: "he has a master's touch"
The feel of mechanical action.
- usage: "this piano has a wonderful touch"

verb

Make physical contact with, come in contact with.
- usage: "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"
Perceive via the tactile sense.
- usage: "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her"
Affect emotionally.
- usage: "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
- synonyms: stir
Be relevant to.
- usage: "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
- synonyms: refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch on, have-to doe with
Be in direct physical contact with; make contact.
- usage: "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
- synonyms: adjoin, meet, contact
Have an effect upon.
- usage: "Will the new rules affect me"
- synonyms: affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on
Deal with; usually used with a form of negation.
- usage: "I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole"; "The local Mafia won't touch gambling"
Cause to be in brief contact with.
- usage: "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"
To extend as far as.
- usage: "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach" "The chair must not touch the wall"
- synonyms: reach, extend to
Be equal to in quality or ability.
- usage: "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
- synonyms: equal, rival, match
Tamper with.
- usage: "Don't touch my CDs"
- synonyms: disturb
Make a more or less disguised reference to.
- usage: "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"
- synonyms: allude, advert
Comprehend.
- usage: "He could not touch the meaning of the poem"
Consume.
- usage: "She didn't touch her food all night"
- synonyms: partake
Color lightly.
- usage: "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November"
- synonyms: tint, tinct, tinge

(n.) Tallow; -- a plumber's term.
(v.t.) To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from.
(v.t.) To compare with; of be equal to; -- usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire.
(n.) An act of borrowing or stealing.
(n.) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, that is, less than 5,040.
(v.) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
(v.t.) To infect; to affect slightly.
(v.t.) To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
(v.) The particular or characteristic mode of action or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.
(n.) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
(v.t.) To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
(v.) A slight and brief essay.
(v.t.) To come to; to reach; to attain to.
(v.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile.
(v.) A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
(v.t.) To relate to; to concern; to affect.
(v.) Feature; lineament; trait.
(n.) A boys' game; tag.
(v.) A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
(v.t.) To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
(v.i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
(v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.) or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
(v.t.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
(v.t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
(v.t.) To harm, afflict or distress.
(v.) The act of touching or the state of being touched; contact.
(v.) A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
(v.t.) To perceive by the sense of feeling.
(v.t.) To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
(v.i.) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
(v.t.) To handle, speak of or deal with; to treat of.
(v.i.) To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
(v.i.) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
(v.) Act or power of exciting emotion.
(a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
(v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
(v.) Personal reference or application.
(v.) A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
(v.t.) To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
(v.t.) To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
(v.t.) To perform, as a tune; to play.
(v.) An emotion or affection.
(v.t.) To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
(v.t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
(v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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