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pattern
adjective[ before noun ]
used in compounds to refer to the way in which a particular type of hair loss occurs, affecting mainly the top and front of the head:
50% of men over age 50 experience some kind of male pattern baldness.
Female-pattern hair loss, which is caused by genetic and hormonal factors, is the most common type of hair loss in women.

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pattern | American Dictionary

pattern
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpæt̬·ərn/

patternnoun[C] (WAY)

a particular way in which something is done or organized, or in which something happens:
Our weather pattern comes from the northwest.
A whole variety of behavior patterns affect infants.

patternnoun[C] (SHAPES)

a regular arrangement of lines, shapes, or colors:
A human fingerprint can be viewed as a geometric pattern.
A pattern is also a design or set of shapes that show how to make something:
a dress pattern

patterned

adjectiveus/ˈpæt̬·ərnd/
a rose and black patterned skirt

pattern | Business English

pattern
noun
uk /ˈpætən/us
[ C ]
a particular way in which something usually happens or is done:
a pattern of sthA pattern of sluggish consumer demand made growth targets impossibly high.
a pattern emergesA pattern is emerging of a steady reduction in costs and increased sales.
establish/fall into/follow a patternThe decision follows a pattern that has become increasingly common in the food industry.
identify/reveal/show a patternAn examination of official documents shows a pattern of construction cost overruns.
a changing/different/similar patternchanging patterns of employment
a consumption/growth/spending patternHigh joblessness and changing consumption patterns will result in moderate sales.
Organizations must address the needs of workers with diverse career patterns and goals.
[ C ]
a way of doing something that other people, organizations, etc. can copy:
set the pattern for sthThe talks have set the pattern for trying to solve problems within the industry.
 a holding pattern
a situation where there is little activity or change, and people are not doing business, spending money, etc. because they cannot decide what to do next:
be in/go into a holding patternSeveral deals went into an immediate holding pattern after the crisis.
pattern
adjective[ before noun ]
 HRuk /ˈpætən/us
used to describe an agreement based on similar agreements with other companies:
a pattern agreement/contractThe contract was viewed by bargainers as a pattern agreement to be used in negotiations with the car company.
The traditional pattern bargaining that went on in the auto industry has gone.
pattern
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈpætən/us
 be patterned after/on sth
to be copied from something or to be very similar to something:
The facility will employ 150 people and be patterned after the steel fastener facility in Saint Joe, Indiana.

Examples of pattern

pattern
Disaggregation of household results by sources of income and expenditure patterns permits a fairly detailed analysis of likely changes in poverty.
For the arterial trunks, this is an easy matter, since the pattern of branching permits ready distinction of an aorta from a pulmonary trunk.
An alternating pattern may result, for example, from a cyclic component with a period of about 2 days; persisting patterns may arise in several ways.
None of the studies presents a fine-grained qualitative and quantitative analysis of error patterns, for type of article and gender separately.
This article therefore identifies the need for further research, qualitative and quantitative, on the relationship between women's employment patterns and the dynamics of household formation.
The qualitative pattern of results obtained in previous sections of the paper, however, remains unchanged.
This study seeks to confirm or refine such described patterns through a more rigorous sampling procedure.
While purely indefinite examples are hard to come by, verbal gerunds do participate in the ambiguity patterns also found for bare nominal gerunds.
For purely logical reasons, the strongest form of the uniqueness question - is the specific behavior or pattern of behavior found only in the target group?
Apart from their purely demographic impact, childbearing patterns are also important for their social, psychological, and economic implications.
A clause protected with a guard matches only if both the pattern and the guard are satisfied.
The regular pattern of alternating long and short syllables, which is reversed only in the middle, accounts for the measured pace of both poems.
The mineral nutrition of wild plants revisited: a re-evaluation of processes and patterns.
Coherences between recording sites reflect the pattern and degree of connectivity between brain regions.
Supervised learning of pattern associations via localist representations was (re)shown to be self-organizing, stable, and plastic.
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Collocations withpattern

pattern

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altered pattern
Most actions of cytokines can be attributed to an altered pattern of gene expression in the target cells.
apparent pattern
The same apparentpattern of impairment can be produced by damage to different loci.
atypical pattern
Some studies observe normal patterns of cueing, suggesting that children with autism are alert to the significance of the eyes, whereas other studies reveal an atypical pattern of cueing.
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