Englishfor English speakers
null)" onclick="wbw('tok0')">pattern null
pattern
Noun
—
A pattern is a design that uses the same set of elements many times in the same order.
The table cloth had a simple pattern of red and white squares.
—
The combined and for an individual or a group of people describes a pattern.
The people of Spain have a pattern of resting in the afternoon and eating dinner late at night.
pattern
Verb
—
When you pattern something, you make it using a pattern.
Much of crime fiction is patterned from true police .
null
—
adjective
(= void)
lacking any legal or binding force
null and void
—
noun
(= nothing, nil, goose egg, naught, zilch)
a quantity of no importance
it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
reduced to nil all the work we had done
we racked up a pathetic goose egg
it was all for naught
I didn't hear zilch about it