(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.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
(n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
(n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
(n.) Something made after a model; a copy.
(n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's 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.
(v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
(v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(3) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(4) These eight large plasmids had indistinguishable EcoRI restriction patterns.
(5) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(6) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(7) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(8) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(9) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
(10) We evaluated the circadian pattern of gastric acidity by prolonged intraluminal pHmetry in 15 "responder" and 10 "nonresponder" duodenal ulcer patients after nocturnal administration of placebo, ranitidine, and famotidine.
(11) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(12) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(13) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(14) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(15) Chromatographic maps of DNA adducts demonstrated unique patterns of DNA adducts for each of the regions.
(16) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(17) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(18) A murine keratinocyte cell line that is resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was examined for differential gene expression patterns that may be related to the mechanism of the loss of TGF beta 1 responsiveness.
(19) The pattern and intensity were followed up for up to 15 days.
(20) LH and FSH levels in the group which were given low dose progesterone only, rose consistently after BSO and these patterns were similar to those seen in the control group.
Stencil
Definition:
(n.) A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.
(v. t.) To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.
Example Sentences:
(1) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
(2) Qassem is one of a small band of graffiti artists in the Afghan capital who, encouraged by a group of western "art activists", are set on bringing tagging, wall-painting and graphic stencils to public spaces across the city.
(3) Kaltenbach's step test (individually by stencils defined normal ranges of the heart rate during a 6 minute submaximal exercise and a 6 minute recovery period; age and sex dependent work load relative to body surface area) is able to mimic everyday efforts in an easy and reliable way.
(4) Stencilling – If you want to get started with spray cans, precut stencils are pretty easy to get your hands on and you can make some really nice things by overlapping the same patterns with different colours.
(5) It was facing closure earlier this year and needed £120,000 to survive – until the Banksy stencil arrived next to the club's gates.
(6) The envelope contains a small red card with the number 23 stencilled in black and a handwritten invitation to deliver a talk of my choosing at the semi-annual convention to take place in mid-January in Berlin.
(7) Leopard and Barcode, one of the artist’s celebrated early stencil works, had been situated on the side of a house on Pembroke Road, Bristol.
(8) "He's sort of like Batman," Matt Adams, a Williamsburg resident, said as he photographed the Japanese-themed stencil.
(9) Leopard and Barcode, one of the artist’s celebrated early stencil works, had been situated on the side of a house on Pembroke Road, Bristol .
(10) A piece of engine cowling featuring a Rolls-Royce stencil, which was found in South Africa earlier this year , is “almost certainly” from the Boeing 777 that went missing more than two years ago with 239 people on board, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said on Thursday.
(11) Retrospective evaluation of the nomogram showed that it can separate normal labour from labour destined to result in an abnormal outcome, such as longer first and second stages, a greater incidence of instrumental delivery, and babies with low Apgar scores.It is suggested that the use of a stencil representing normal labour progress, together with Philpott's partogram, will be of considerable use, both in specialist and in general-practitioner units.
(12) Glenn Ligon – Call and Response Often using words as image, Ligon’s stencilled paintings, neons and films detail the experience of black America.
(13) Two years later, when “The Four” were invited to contribute to the London Arts and Crafts Exhibition, he sent a rather heavily proportioned settle, with stencilled patterns and beaten metal panels, made by Margaret Macdonald.
(14) That’s me,” he said of the stencilled outline shown in one of the clips.
(15) "It's quite easy to be a bad stencil artist, but it takes a lot of work to get the images he gets."
(16) Dj Lu’s pineapple hand-grenade stencil is one of the most famous and prominent symbols on the streets of Bogotá - a comment, he says, on the way land is used in Colombia , where soil that was once for crops is now full of landmines.
(17) Instead, the site showed images of only one painting, a stencil of a man and a woman standing in a doorway and appearing to embrace, but in fact looking over each other's shoulders to read their smartphones, which illuminate their faces.
(18) I am very optimistic about the future of an independent UK.” In front of Jackson’s stencil is David Burns, a wheelchair user from Dorset, who describes himself as “a self-unemployed artist”.
(19) The artist's work, even when removed from outdoor locations, can command huge sums: in February a painting of two policemen kissing that had originally been stencilled onto a pub wall in Brighton was sold at a Miami auction for $575,000.
(20) But their identities can be gleaned by cross-checking photos submitted online against silhouette stencils applied by Perry to the pots shown in clips he has released.