underlying pattern

collocation in English

meaningsofunderlyingandpattern

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underlying
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
real but not ...
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pattern
noun
uk
/ˈpæt.ən/us
/ˈpæt̬.ɚn/
a particular way in which something is done, is organized, ...
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(Definition ofunderlyingandpatternfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunderlying pattern

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He suggests that even in the seventeenth century theunderlyingpatternwas not that of a joint family system.
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The largely qualitative assessment of element number may also obscure anunderlyingpattern.
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Thisunderlyingpatterncan be explained by the combination of food availability and abiotic conditions.
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Even when they were prompted with examples and with specific instructions they seemed unable to perceive that there was anunderlyingpatternthat was governed by a general rule.
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Would the sonic landscape generated by the weather conditions make explicit 'a coherentunderlyingpattern'?
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His deductive design process from thisunderlyingpatternto physical realization, or from abstract 'form' to realized 'design' provided the key to a structure-based design method.
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That is why to establish anunderlyingpatternwe need to look at the 1987 figures.
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They have grown up over many years without anyunderlyingpattern.
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His intention is that theunderlyingpatternof injustice should continue.
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That was the trueunderlyingpatternin the housing programme.
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Lifestyles, fashions and dietary customs may change from epoch to epoch, but theunderlyingpatternremains, and this represents the cycle of history.
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The stimuli may follow anunderlyingpatternor follow a set of transition rules which the participant is unaware of.
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These documents serve to constitute theunderlyingpattern, but are themselves interpreted on the basis of what is already known about thatunderlyingpattern.
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On the contrary, shredders actually colonized a broad range of leaf species (38 species) from several different plant families, with no apparent underlying patterns.
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In the first joining of the carnival crowd by the youth and in the collection of eggs, theunderlyingpatternof the ritual initiation and fertility rites can be recognised.
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These patterns in the vegetation can appear without anyunderlyingpatternin soil types, and are thus said to self-organize rather than be determined by the environment.
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Garfinkel states that the documentary method of interpretation consists of treating an actual appearance as the document of, as pointing to, as standing on behalf of, a presupposedunderlyingpattern.
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Thus, the non-agouti genotype (aa) masks or hides the tabby pattern, although sometimes a suggestion of theunderlyingpatterncan be seen (called ghost striping), especially in kittens.
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The underlying patterns and regularities in the attachment relationship are thus detected, extracted, encoded, and stored.
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Underlying patterns emerge and hit the reader with dazzling clarity.
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