Patterner
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Someone who or something which makes or uses a pattern.
"Between two tall blades in the clearing a spider had spun a web, a circle delicately suspended. The silver threads caught the sunlight. In the center the spinner waited, a gray-black thing no larger than the pupil of an eye. “She too is a patterner,” Ged said, studying the artful web."
- 2 Something which follows a pattern, or may be identified as part of a pattern.
"the terms object patterners and verb patterners will be used here for those elements whose order tends to correlate with that of the object and verb respectively. Thus genitives are object patterners while the nouns they modify are verb patterners."
Example
More examples"Between two tall blades in the clearing a spider had spun a web, a circle delicately suspended. The silver threads caught the sunlight. In the center the spinner waited, a gray-black thing no larger than the pupil of an eye. “She too is a patterner,” Ged said, studying the artful web."
Etymology
From pattern + -er, with either the verb or the noun pattern.
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