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plan, layout, design, draft, guide, template or templet,
stencil, mould, matrix: These new lighting fixtures are made to
a 19th-century pattern. 5 sample, example, instance, specimen,
representation: Were you able to match up your fabric pattern
with one of those in the tailor's book? 6 layout, configuration,
figure, formation, composition: The geese often flew in a
V-shaped pattern.
--v. 7 Often, pattern on. model on, imitate, copy, mimic,
duplicate, follow, emulate, simulate: She tried to pattern her
behaviour on that of her older sister. 8 decorate, figure,
ornament: Cynthia's gifts were wrapped in a beautifully
patterned paper.
paunch n. belly, pot-belly, Colloq corporation, US bay window, Slang
beer-belly: Capitalism is often conventionalized as a
top-hatted older man, in tails, with a huge paunch and a cigar.
pauper n. have-not, indigent, down-and-out(er), bankrupt, insolvent;
beggar, mendicant; tramp, hobo, vagrant, US bum: The mortgage
payments on such a lavish house soon made him a pauper.
pause v. 1 hesitate, interrupt, delay, hold up, discontinue, break,
wait, mark time, suspend, intermit, falter, rest: He paused for
a moment to allow late-comers to take their seats.
--n. 2 hesitation, interruption, delay, lull, lapse,
moratorium, hold-up, wait, break, breather, breathing-space,
discontinuity, lacuna, hiatus, abeyance, discontinuation,
discontinuance, Prosody caesura, Music fermata, Colloq let-up:
There was a brief pause, then the altercation in the
neighbouring flat resumed.
pave v. 1 macadamize, tarmac, asphalt, tile, flag, concrete, cover,
surface: Europeans thought that the streets of America were
paved with gold. 2 pave the way for or to. prepare or smooth the
way for, open the door for, make easy or easier for; facilitate,
ease: If I talk to him first, perhaps I can pave the way for
you to make your proposal.
pawn° v. 1 pledge, mortgage, hypothecate, plight, deposit, Formal
pignorate, Archaic gage, Colloq Brit pop, Chiefly US and
Canadian hock: I had to pawn my watch to get enough money to