Definition of patterns

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• patterns is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 10
• patterns is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 10
• patterns is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 12

Definition of patterns

• a customary way of operation or behavior (noun)

  Examples

  1. they changed their dietary pattern

  Synonyms

  1. practice
• a perceptual structure (noun)

  Examples

  1. a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them

  Synonyms

  1. form
  2. shape
• something intended as a guide for making something else (noun)

  Examples

  1. a pattern for a skirt

  Synonyms

  1. blueprint
  2. design
• a decorative or artistic work (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. design
  2. figure
• the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport (noun)

  Examples

  1. the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded
  2. they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted

  Synonyms

  1. approach pattern
  2. traffic pattern
• something regarded as a normative example (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. convention
  2. formula
  3. normal
  4. rule
• graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. radiation diagram
  2. radiation pattern
• plan or create according to a model or models (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. model
• a model considered worthy of imitation (noun)

  Examples

  1. the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics
• form a pattern (verb)

  Examples

  1. These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before

See definition of patterns in Merriam Webster