Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person, machine, or software program that makes patterns, as for sewing, carpentry, or industrial machinery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mech. engin., a workman who makes the patterns used by molders in foundry-work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentery or metalworking).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone whose occupation is to make
patterns , especially those used as aguide in themanufacture of something else
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking)
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Examples
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A successful patternmaker and, eventually, a patent-earning designer of cast-iron stoves, Rohlfs changed his Brooklyn City Directory listing from "patternmaker" to "actor" in 1881 and married the novelist Anna Katharine Green in 1884.
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I then ship my sketces to my patternmaker who turns the piece around for review.
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Having the right editors, models, and photographers in attendance seemed to serve as markers of legitimacy for the rapper, rather than say, a proper patternmaker.
Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011
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Having the right editors, models, and photographers in attendance seemed to serve as markers of legitimacy for the rapper, rather than say, a proper patternmaker.
Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011
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Having the right editors, models, and photographers in attendance seemed to serve as markers of legitimacy for the rapper, rather than say, a proper patternmaker.
Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011
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Having the right editors, models, and photographers in attendance seemed to serve as markers of legitimacy for the rapper, rather than say, a proper patternmaker.
Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011
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Having the right editors, models, and photographers in attendance seemed to serve as markers of legitimacy for the rapper, rather than say, a proper patternmaker.
Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011
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The head patternmaker, irritated by the man's attitude, walked over to him.
I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010
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"Guess I was wrong," the patternmaker told himself, putting the incident out of his mind.
I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010
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The patternmaker recommends using a row counter, to which I cockily said “Bah!”
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