Cycle vs. Pattern — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cycle and Pattern
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Cycle
An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events occurs
Sunspots increase and decrease in intensity in an 11-year cycle.
Pattern
A pattern is a regularity in the world, in human-made design, or in abstract ideas. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner.
Cycle
A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
A year constitutes a cycle of the seasons.
Pattern
A usually repeating artistic or decorative design
A paisley pattern.
Cycle
A periodically repeated sequence of events
The cycle of birth, growth, and death.
A cycle of reprisal and retaliation.
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Pattern
A natural or accidental arrangement or sequence
The pattern of rainfall over the past year.
Cycle
The orbit of a celestial body.
Pattern
A plan, diagram, or model to be followed in making things
A dress pattern.
Cycle
A long period of time; an age.
Pattern
A model or original used for imitation or as an archetype.
Cycle
The aggregate of traditional poems or stories organized around a central theme or hero
The Arthurian cycle.
Pattern
A composite of traits or features characteristic of an individual or a group
One's pattern of behavior.
Cycle
A series of poems or songs on the same theme
Schubert's song cycles.
Pattern
Form and style in an artistic work or body of artistic works.
Cycle
A bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
Pattern
The configuration of gunshots upon a target that is used as an indication of skill in shooting.
Cycle
(Botany) A circular or whorled arrangement of flower parts such as those of petals or sepals.
Pattern
The distribution and spread, around a targeted region, of spent shrapnel, bomb fragments, or shot from a shotgun.
Cycle
(Baseball) The achievement of hitting a single, double, triple, and home run in a single game.
Pattern
Enough material to make a complete garment.
Cycle
To occur in or pass through a cycle.
Pattern
A test pattern.
Cycle
To move in or as if in a cycle.
Pattern
The flight path of an aircraft about to land
A flight pattern.
Cycle
To ride a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
Pattern
(Football) A pass pattern.
Cycle
To use in or put through a cycle
Cycled the heavily soiled laundry twice.
Cycling the recruits through eight weeks of basic training.
Pattern
To make, mold, or design by following a pattern
We patterned this plan on the previous one. My daughter patterned her military career after her father's.
Cycle
An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
The cycle of the seasons, or of the year
Pattern
To cover or ornament with a design or pattern.
Cycle
A complete rotation of anything.
Pattern
To make a pattern.
Cycle
A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
Electoral cycle
Menstrual cycle
News cycle
Pattern
Model, example.
Cycle
The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
Pattern
Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
Cycle
(music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
The interval cycle C4 consists of the pitch classes 0, 4 and 8; when starting on E, it is realised as the pitches E, G# and C.
Pattern
Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
Cycle
A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
The "Ring of the Nibelung" is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.
Pattern
A copy.
Cycle
A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
The spin cycle
Pattern
A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.
Cycle
A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
Pattern
A representative example.
Cycle
(baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
Jones hit for the cycle in the game.
Pattern
(US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
Cycle
(graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
Pattern
(textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
Cycle
A chain whose boundary is zero.
Pattern
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.
Cycle
An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
Pattern
(computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.
There were no files matching the pattern
*.txt.Cycle
An age; a long period of time.
Pattern
A design pattern.
Cycle
An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
Pattern
Coherent or decorative arrangement.
Cycle
(botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
Pattern
A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
Cycle
(weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
Pattern
A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.
Cycle
(aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
Pattern
The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
Cycle
To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
Pattern
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.
Cycle
To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
Pattern
(linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
Cycle
(electronics) To turn power off and back on
Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
Pattern
A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song.
Cycle
(ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
They have their cycling game going tonight.
Pattern
To apply a pattern.
Cycle
An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
Pattern
To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
Cycle
An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.
Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.
Pattern
To follow an example.
Cycle
An age; a long period of time.
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
Pattern
To fit into a pattern.
Cycle
An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
We . . . present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year.
Pattern
(transitive) To serve as an example for.
Cycle
The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.
Pattern
To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours.
Cycle
One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
Pattern
(MLE) To arrange, to organise, to fix.
Cycle
A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.
Pattern
Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal.
Cycle
A motorcycle.
Pattern
Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
I will be the pattern of all patience.
Cycle
A series of operations in which heat is imparted to (or taken away from) a working substance which by its expansion gives up a part of its internal energy in the form of mechanical work (or being compressed increases its internal energy) and is again brought back to its original state.
Pattern
A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
He compares the pattern with the whole piece.
Cycle
A complete positive and negative, or forward and reverse, action of any periodic process, such as a vibration, an electric field oscillation, or a current alternation; one period.
Pattern
Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
Cycle
To pass through a cycle{2} of changes; to recur in cycles.
Pattern
Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
Cycle
To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.
Pattern
Something made after a model; a copy.
The patterns of things in the heavens.
Cycle
To cause to pass through a cycle{2}.
Pattern
Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
Cycle
An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs;
The neverending cycle of the seasons
Pattern
A full-sized model around which a mold 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 mold without injuring it.
Cycle
A series of poems or songs on the same theme;
Schubert's song cycles
Pattern
A recognizable characteristic relationship or set of relationships between the members of any set of objects or actions, or the properties of the members; also, the set having a definable relationship between its members.
Cycle
A periodically repeated sequence of events;
A cycle of reprisal and retaliation
Pattern
A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
Cycle
The unit of frequency; one Hertz has a periodic interval of one second
Pattern
The recommended flight path for an airplane to follow as it approaches an airport for a landing. Same as landing pattern.
Cycle
A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon;
A year constitutes a cycle of the seasons
Pattern
An image or diagram containing lines, usually horizontal, vertical, and diagonal, sometimes of varying widths, used to test the resolution of an optical instrument or the accuracy of reproduction of image copying or transmission equipment. Same as test pattern.
Cycle
A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
Pattern
To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
[A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise.
Cycle
Cause to go through a recurring sequence;
Cycle thge laundry in this washing program
Pattern
To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
Cycle
Pass through a cycle;
This machine automatically cycles
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
Cycle
Ride a motorcycle
Pattern
A customary way of operation or behavior;
It is their practice to give annual raises
They changed their dietary pattern
Cycle
Ride a bicycle
Pattern
A decorative or artistic work;
The coach had a design on the doors
Cycle
Recur in repeating sequences
Pattern
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
Pattern
A model considered worthy of imitation;
The American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics
Pattern
Something intended as a guide for making something else;
A blueprint for a house
A pattern for a skirt
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
Pattern
Graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
Pattern
Plan or create according to a model or models
Pattern
Form a pattern;
These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before
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