pattern on meaning

• pattern after/on sth usually passive to design or make something in a way that is copied from something else:
  ▪ The new health care plan is patterned on the Medicare program.
  ▪ Hilger's films have been patterned after her own life experiences.
  ■ SIMILAR TO: model on/upon, base on

• I studied the figured pattern on the beige rug.
• The gardeners' tidy souls could not abide the gold and green and russet pattern on the grass.
• An image of the patterns on the mask is projected onto the resist-coated wafer, which is many centimeters away.
• Sand has accumulated in a deltaic pattern on both the marine and lagoon sides of the inlets in conjunction with this diminishing current flow.
• There is an elaborate lace pattern on the clothes
• There are a dozen patterns on chinese painted pottery
• The influence of thinking pattern on language and translation
• Enlightenment of the text pattern on the reading teaching
• For example, compare the event-based pattern on the
• Fish patterns on figure bricks of han dynasty in nanyang city

• "pattern on" meaning in Chinese: 效仿