pattern

Definition

Examples

Analysts noticed a clear pattern in the way customers shop online.

Synonyms

• trenda general direction in which something tends to move
• modela hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
• designthe act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)

Collocations

• Easy colorful pattern on fabric
  describing colorful pattern on fabric (having striking color)
• Medium notice changing consumer spending patterns
  to notice changing consumer spending patterns, meaning to discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
• Hard cyclical pattern of financial booms and busts
  describing cyclical pattern of financial booms and busts (recurring in cycles)
• Very Hard shatter the predictable pattern of stagnation
  to shatter the predictable pattern of stagnation, meaning to break into many pieces