Pay (sb) the earth

Definition

pattern /'pætn/ n ၁။ ပံုစံ။ patterns of behaviour/behaviour patterns ❍ the pattern of worldwide economic decline ❍ These sentences all have the same grammatical pattern. ❍ The murders all seem to follow a set/similar pattern (ie occur in a similar way). ၂။ စံနမူနာ။ စံျပ။ This company's profit-sharing scheme sets the pattern for others to follow. ၃။ အဆင္။ အေျပာက္အမြမ္း။ ဒီဇိုင္း။ ပန္းေျပာက္။ a checked/flowery/Paisley/geometric pattern ❍ a dress with a pattern of tiny roses. ၄။ ပံုစံ။ အၫႊန္း။ follow a knitting pattern. ၅။ နမူနာ။ a book of carpet/wallpaper patterns. v ၁။ ပံုစံေဖာ္သည္။ a landscape patterned by vineyards. ၂။ ~ sth on sth ပံုစံကိုမီွးသည္။ နမူနာယူသည္။ a new approach patterned on Japanese ideas. ❏ patterned /'pætǝnd/ adj ~ (with sth) ပံုစံေဖာ္ထားေသာ။ တန္ဆာဆင္ထားေသာ။ patterned china/wallpaper ❍ a blue shawl patterned with silver moons.

Examples

1. [pattern of] : Patterns of employment in urban areas are different from those in the countryside.
2. [pattern of] : We examined patterns of behaviour in young children.
3. [follow a pattern] : Training and education follow different patterns in different regions.
4. [a pattern emerges/occurs] : With such limited data no clear pattern emerges.
5. [a set/fixed pattern] : There is no set pattern for grieving when a loved one dies.
6. [behaviour/sleep patterns] : Survival-oriented behaviour patterns
7. The carpet was old
8. with strange patterns on it.
9. A simple rhyming pattern
10. These birds have different flight patterns.
11. A sewing/knitting pattern