[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pattern/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [P](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/p/) / pattern # pattern noun (pattern, patterns); verb (pattern, patterns, patterned, patterning — rare) «pattern» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A pattern is something that repeats in a rule, like red, blue, red, blue, or 2, 4, 6, 8. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#m1) 2. A pattern is a design of lines, shapes or colours on cloth, paper or a wall: a pattern of stars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#m2) 3. A pattern is a usual way that something happens: sleep patterns, weather patterns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#m3) 4. A pattern is also a shape you copy or cut around to make clothes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#m4) ### In the lessons In maths: number patterns, shape patterns, and repeating rules; «find the rule», «what comes next». In science: patterns in data, weather patterns, patterns on animals (stripes, spots). In art: repeating patterns and tessellations. In everyday life: patterns on clothes; in stories, a pattern of clues. ### Examples - What is the next number in the pattern 3, 6, 9? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#x1) - The pattern is red, red, blue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#x2) - Find the rule of the pattern. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#x3) - The pattern adds 5 each time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#x4) - A zebra has a pattern of black and white stripes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#x5) - Her dress has a pattern of little flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#x6) - Scientists look for patterns in their results. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#x7) - The leaves grow in a spiral pattern. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#x8) - The detective saw a pattern in the robberies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#x9) - "What a beautiful pattern, what brilliant colours! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/#x10) ### Note Find the rule (add, subtract, multiply) by comparing neighbouring terms, then use it. Trap: check the rule on more than two terms. A repeating pattern has a core that repeats (red, red, blue); a growing pattern changes by a rule. Do not confuse pattern with patent or patron. ## In Jewish tradition God shows Moses the pattern of the tabernacle and its furniture on the mountain, and Israel must make it just like that. **Interpretation.** The rabbis said Moses was shown a heavenly sanctuary, as if in fire. They say it had to be copied exactly, as with the golden candlestick. ### Examples - And see that thou make them after their pattern, which is being shown thee in the mount. (Torah EXO.25.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pattern/#x1) - According to all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the furniture thereof, even so shall ye make it. (Torah EXO.25.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pattern/#x2) - And this was the work of the candlestick, beaten work of gold; unto the base thereof, and unto the flowers thereof, it was beaten work; according unto the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the candlestick. (Torah NUM.8.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pattern/#x3) - 'All this do I give thee in writing, as the LORD hath made me wise by His hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.' (Writings 1CH.28.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pattern/#x4) - and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot, even the cherubim, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD. (Writings 1CH.28.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pattern/#x5) ### Note Find the rule (add, subtract, multiply) by comparing neighbouring terms, then use it. Trap: check the rule on more than two terms. A repeating pattern has a core that repeats (red, red, blue); a growing pattern changes by a rule. Do not confuse pattern with patent or patron. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «pattern» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pattern/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«pattern» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pattern.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «pattern» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pattern/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«pattern» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/pattern.html) on Mova free.