patterning

pattern (something) after (something else)

To use something as the template or model for the way in which something else is created or developed. The mayor's ambitious social security plan is patterned after a similar system already in place in Sweden. You can pattern your lesson plans after ones from previous teachers.
See also: after, pattern

pattern (something) on (something else)

To use something as the template or model for the way in which something else is created or developed. The mayor's ambitious social security plan is patterned after a similar system already in place in Sweden. You can pattern your lesson plans after ones from previous teachers.
See also: on, pattern
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • a crack at (someone or something)
  • all right
  • (you) wanna make something of it?
  • all for the best
  • a thing of the past
  • a slew of (something)
  • a bird in the hand
References in periodicals archive
A descriptive study monitored the development of 53 preschoolers' mathematical patterning skills in two similar preschools, one of which implemented a 6-month intervention promoting patterning concepts.
Promoting repeating patterns with young children--more than just alternating colours! Marina Papic explains how experiences in the early years of schooling should focus on identifying, justifying and transferring various patterns using a variety of materials if a sound understanding of patterning is to develop in students
So even at Utopia Planitia, hidden ice could still be patterning the Martian landscape.
Patterns from nowhere: natural forces bring order to untouched ground
Samuel Daniel describes the first dance of the twelve goddesses in his masque from 1604, a dance which took place in "the midst of the hall," as "being performed with great majesty and art, consisting of divers strains framed into motions circular, square, triangular, with other proportions exceeding rare and full of variety."(93) In Hymenaei (1606) and Masque of Queens (1609) the dancers formed both geometric patterns and alphabetic figures.(94) In the text of one of the songs in the masque, The Vision of Delight (1617) the dances are described as "curious knots and mazes"(95) thus indicating that not only were these dances ones with geometrical patterning, but that the same words were used to describe both the dance patterns and the patterns used in the formal gardens.
Dance and the Garden: Moving and Static Choreography in Renaissance Europe
A Vision (for W.B.), 1996, is a collage that luxuriates in the musicality of visual patterning. Engraved cloud forms, mists, light rays, and swirling radiances are arranged in stripes and squares.
Bruce Conner
They had expected that spinodal dewetting should produce an ordered patterning of holes in liquid polystyrene-on-silicon films, which have been popular for studying the process.
To Bead or Not to Bead?
Patterning activities are a staple of the kindergarten curriculum.
What comes next? The mathematics of pattern in kindergarten