Current vs Pattern - What's the difference?
current | pattern |
The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.
(electricity) The time rate of flow of electric charge.
:* Symbol': '''''I (inclined upper case letter "I")
:* Units:
:: SI: ampere (A)
:: CGS: esu/second (esu/s)
A tendency or a course of events.
Existing or occurring at the moment.
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, title= Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
* Arbuthnot
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, title= (obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
* Gower
* Tennyson
Model, example.
# Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
#* 1923 , ‘President Wilson’, Time , 18 Jun 1923:
# Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
#* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , I.16:
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# 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.
# (metalworking, dated) 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.
Decorative arrangement.
# A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
#* 2003 , Valentino, ‘Is there a future in fashion's past?’, Time , 5 Feb 2003:
# A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.
#* 2011 , Rachel Cooke, The Observer , 19 Jun 2011:
# 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.
#* 1980 , ‘Shifting Targets’, Time , 6 Oct 1980:
#* 2003 , Kate Hudson, The Guardian , 14 Aug 2003:
# (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
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.
* Sir T. Herbert
to follow an example
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to fit into a pattern
To serve as an example for.
As nouns the difference between current and pattern
is that current is the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction while pattern is model, example.As an adjective current
is existing or occurring at the moment.As a verb pattern is
to apply a pattern.current
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction ): flow, stream * (time rate of flow of electric charge ): electric current * (tendency or course of events ): flow, stream, tendencyDerived terms
* undercurrentAdjective
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- That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- Like the current fire, that renneth / Upon a cord.
- To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
Synonyms
* (existing or occurring at the moment ): present * (generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment ): fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-dateAntonyms
* (existing or occurring at the moment ): future, past * (generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment ): out-of-date, unfashionablepattern
English
(wikipedia pattern)Noun
(en noun)- There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern .
- The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages.
- There were no files matching the pattern
*.txt.
- On my way to work the other day, I stopped at a church in Rome and saw a painting of the Madonna. The subtle pattern of blues and golds in the embroidery of her dress was so amazing that I used it to design a new evening dress for my haute couture.
- He lifted the entire joint or fowl up into the air, speared on a carving fork, and sliced pieces off it so that they fell on the plate below in perfectly organised patterns .
- The three killings pointed to an ugly new shift in the enduring pattern of violence in Northern Ireland: the mostly Protestant Ulster police, or those suspected of affiliation with them, have become more prominent targets for the I.R.A. than the British troops.
- Look again at how the US and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.
Synonyms
* original (1) * stencil (1) * tessellation (2) * category (3) * cycle (4) * similarity (5) * See alsoAntonyms
* antipatternDerived terms
* design patternVerb
(en verb)- [A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise.