Definitions of pattern:

• noun:   a model considered worthy of imitation

  Example: "The American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"

• noun:   a customary way of operation or behavior

  Example: "They changed their dietary pattern"

• noun:   a decorative or artistic work
• noun:   something regarded as a normative example
• noun:   something intended as a guide for making something else

  Example: "A pattern for a skirt"

• noun:   a perceptual structure

  Example: "A visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"

• noun:   graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
• noun:   the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport

  Example: "The traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"

• verb:   form a pattern

  Example: "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

• verb:   plan or create according to a model or models