practice pattern | a customary way of operation or behavior, it is their practice to give annual raises, they changed their dietary pattern |
design pattern figure | a decorative or artistic work, the coach had a design on the doors |
fret Greek fret Greek key key pattern | an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief), there was a simple fret at the top of the walls |
herringbone herringbone pattern | a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way, it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery |
willowware willow-pattern | chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river |
inheritance hereditary pattern | (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents |
somatotropin somatotrophin somatotropic hormone somatotrophic hormone STH human growth hormone growth hormone | a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland, promotes growth in humans |
convention normal pattern rule formula | something regarded as a normative example, the convention of not naming the main character, violence is the rule not the exception, his formula for impressing visitors |
melody tonal pattern | the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes |
blueprint design pattern | something intended as a guide for making something else, a blueprint for a house, a pattern for a skirt |
form shape pattern | a perceptual structure, the composition presents problems for students of musical form, a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them |
pattern | a model considered worthy of imitation, the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics |
radiation pattern radiation diagram pattern | graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle |
intonation pattern | intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements |
poetic rhythm rhythmic pattern prosody | (prosody) a system of versification |
accent speech pattern | distinctive manner of oral expression, he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent, she had a very clear speech pattern |
emergence outgrowth growth | the gradual beginning or coming forth, figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece |
rapid climb rapid growth zoom | a rapid rise |
growth industry | an industry that is growing rapidly |
growth | vegetation that has grown, a growth of trees, the only growth was some salt grass |
traffic pattern approach pattern pattern | the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport, the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded, they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted |
holding pattern | the flight path (usually circular) maintained by an aircraft that is awaiting permission to land |
growth | something grown or growing, a growth of hair |
annual ring growth ring | an annual formation of wood in plants as they grow |
old growth virgin forest | forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity |
second growth | a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting |
growth stock | stock of a corporation that has had faster than average gains in earnings and is expected to continue to |
economic growth | steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income) |
growth growing maturation development ontogeny ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |
growth | a progression from simpler to more complex forms, the growth of culture |
increase increment growth | a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important, the increase in unemployment, the growth of population |
population growth | increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state |
holding pattern | a state of inaction with no progress and no change, you should go into a holding pattern until he gets over his disappointment |
type I diabetes insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus IDDM juvenile-onset diabetes juvenile diabetes growth-onset diabetes ketosis-prone diabetes ketoacidosis-prone diabetes autoimmune diabetes | severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset, characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis, diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease |
growth | (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) |
male-patterned baldness male pattern baldness | loss of hair on the crown of the head |
growth factor | a protein that is involved in cell differentiation and growth |
nerve growth factor NGF | a protein that is involved in the growth of peripheral nerve cells |
phytohormone plant hormone growth regulator | (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone |
growth hormoneeleasing factor GHRF | a releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body |
growth rate rate of growth | the rate of increase in size per unit time |
pattern-bomb | bomb in certain patterns |
model pattern | plan or create according to a model or models |
pattern | form a pattern, These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before |