Habit vs. Pattern

Habitnoun

An action performed on a regular basis.

Habitnoun

An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.

Habitnoun

A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.

Habitnoun

A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.

Habitnoun

(archaic) Outward appearance; attire; dress.

Habitnoun

Form of growth or general appearance of a variety or species of plant or crystal.

Habitnoun

An addiction.

Habitverb

(transitive) To clothe.

Habitverb

To inhabit.

Habitnoun

The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.

Habitnoun

The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.

Habitnoun

Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior.

Habitnoun

Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit.

Habitnoun

The distinctive clothing worn commonly by nuns or monks; as, in the late 1900's many orders of nuns discarded their habits and began to dress as ordinary lay women.

Habitverb

To inhabit.

Habitverb

To dress; to clothe; to array.

Habitverb

To accustom; to habituate.

Habitnoun

an established custom;

Habitnoun

a pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition;

Habitnoun

(religion) a distinctive attire (as the costume of a religious order)

Habitnoun

excessive use of drugs

Habitverb

put a habit on

Habitnoun

a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up

Habitnoun

an addictive practice, especially one of taking drugs

Habitnoun

an automatic reaction to a specific situation.

Habitnoun

general shape or mode of growth, especially of a plant or a mineral

Habitnoun

a long, loose garment worn by a member of a religious order

Habitnoun

short for riding habit

Habitnoun

clothes

Habitnoun

a person's health or constitution

Habitverb

be dressed or clothed

Habit

A habit (or wont as a humorous and formal term) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously.The American Journal of Psychology (1903) defined a Habitual behavior often goes unnoticed in persons exhibiting it, because a person does not need to engage in self-analysis when undertaking routine tasks. Habits are sometimes compulsory.

Patternnoun

Model, example.

Patternnoun

Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.

Patternnoun

Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.

Patternnoun

A copy.

Patternnoun

A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.

Patternnoun

A representative example.

Patternnoun

(US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing.

Patternnoun

(textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.

Patternnoun

A full-sized model around which a mould 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 mould without damage.

Patternnoun

(computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.

Patternnoun

A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.

Patternnoun

A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.

Patternnoun

The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.

Patternnoun

A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship.

Patternnoun

(linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.

Patternnoun

A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song.

Patternverb

To apply a pattern.

Patternverb

To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

Patternverb

To follow an example.

Patternverb

To fit into a pattern.

Patternverb

(transitive) To serve as an example for.

Patternnoun

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.

Patternnoun

A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.

Patternnoun

Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.

Patternnoun

Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.

Patternnoun

Something made after a model; a copy.

Patternnoun

Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.

Patternnoun

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.

Patternnoun

a recognizable characteristic relationship or set of relationships between the members of any set of objects or actions, or the properties of the members; also, the set having a definable relationship between its members.

Patternnoun

A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.

Patternnoun

the recommended flight path for an airplane to follow as it approaches an airport for a landing. Same as landing pattern.

Patternnoun

an image or diagram containing lines, usually horizontal, vertical, and diagonal, sometimes of varying widths, used to test the resolution of an optical instrument or the accuracy of reproduction of image copying or transmission equipment. Same as test pattern.

Patternverb

To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

Patternverb

To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.

Patternnoun

a perceptual structure;

Patternnoun

a customary way of operation or behavior;

Patternnoun

a decorative or artistic work;

Patternnoun

something regarded as a normative example;

Patternnoun

a model considered worthy of imitation;

Patternnoun

something intended as a guide for making something else;

Patternnoun

the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport;

Patternnoun

graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle

Patternverb

plan or create according to a model or models

Patternverb

form a pattern;

Pattern

A pattern is a regularity in the world, in human-made design, or in abstract ideas. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner.