| 释义 |
ˈpatterning, vbl. n.
a. The production or arrangement of patterns; concr. work done according to a pattern, design, or fashion.
1862Rawlinson Anc. Mon. I. vi. 388 The patterning of the pillars with chevrons is..remarkable. 1882F. Wedmore in Academy 14 Jan. 32/3 The upholders of beautiful patterning, who..say that exquisite painting is the first and last business of a painter. 1889Rawlinson Phœnicia 203 This sarcophagus, the edges of which are most richly adorned with patterning.
b. The fact or process of forming (part of) an abstract pattern, as of behaviour, speech, etc.
1921E. Sapir Language iv. 61 It also has a definite feeling for patterning on the level of grammatical formation. 1937B. L. Whorf in Language (1945) XXI. 1 This view loses sight of various word-classes that are marked not by morphemic tags but by types of patterning. 1939J. Dollard et al. Frustration & Aggression vii. 152 Traditional patterning identifies another group of circumstances in which the aggression may be expressed. 1952Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-Anal. XXXIII. 411/2 Certain fundamental relationships, resulting in characteristic pregenital patterning..are offered here. 1961R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts i. 22 In he's sort of nice the relationship if similarly upside down: he's rather nice shows the syntactically more ordinary patterning. 1963Lancet 12 Jan. 67/1 The inseparability of genetic and environmental influences should not deter us from the study of isolated aspects of growth and patterning. 1964Amer. Speech XXXIX. 140 Nineteenth- and twentieth-century works that discover and elucidate structural patterning in one or more languages. Ibid., It is..in the gradually developed concept of patterning that the structural teachings of our own day are rooted. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia xiii. 79 The evolution of behaviour can be ‘conceptualised’ as the process of development of intersensory patterning. 1973Word 1970 XXVI. 122 A deep sense of the presence of patterning in the phenomena of man. Ibid., To extend the scope of linguistic inquiry..to include..verbal art, cultural symbolism and patterning, and so on. |