Pattern vs. Rhythm

Model, example.

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

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

A copy.

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

A representative example.

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

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

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.

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

Example: ‘There were no files matching the pattern *.txt.’;

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

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

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

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.

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

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

To apply a pattern.

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

To follow an example.

To fit into a pattern.

(transitive) To serve as an example for.

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.

Example: ‘I will be the pattern of all patience.’;

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

Example: ‘He compares the pattern with the whole piece.’;

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

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

Something made after a model; a copy.

Example: ‘The patterns of things in the heavens.’;

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Example: ‘[A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise.’;

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

a perceptual structure;

Example: ‘the composition presents problems for students of musical form’; ‘a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them’;

a customary way of operation or behavior;

Example: ‘it is their practice to give annual raises’; ‘they changed their dietary pattern’;

a decorative or artistic work;

Example: ‘the coach had a design on the doors’;

something regarded as a normative example;

Example: ‘the convention of not naming the main character’; ‘violence is the rule not the exception’; ‘his formula for impressing visitors’;

a model considered worthy of imitation;

Example: ‘the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics’;

something intended as a guide for making something else;

Example: ‘a blueprint for a house’; ‘a pattern for a skirt’;

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’; ‘they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted’;

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

plan or create according to a model or models

form a pattern;

Example: ‘These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before’;

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.

The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.

Example: ‘Dance to the rhythm of the music.’;

A specifically defined pattern of such variation.

Example: ‘Most dances have a rhythm as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry’;

A flow, repetition or regularity.

Example: ‘Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy.’;

The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.

Example: ‘We walked with a quick, even rhythm.’;

The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.

Example: ‘The Baroque term basso continuo is virtually equivalent to rhythm’;

A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.

Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.

Example: ‘''The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater comedy’;

In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.

Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.

A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.

The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.

the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;

Example: ‘the piece has a fast rhythm’; ‘the conductor set the beat’;

recurring at regular intervals

an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs;

Example: ‘the neverending cycle of the seasons’;

the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements;

Example: ‘the rhythm of Frost's poetry’;

natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, —Liddell and Scott 1996) generally means a (Anon. 1971, 2537).

Example: ‘any regular recurring motion, symmetry’; ‘movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions’;