| mottled |
| 1. adj. Colored in patches; spotted | |
| The mottled skin of the snake was a camouflage that helped it blend in with the shadows. | |
| 2. v. simple past tense and past participle of mottle | |
| mottle |
| 1. v. To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. | |
| 2. n. a distinguishing blotch of color | |
| 3. n. mottled coloration or pattern | |
| The most common symptom is a mild mottle on the youngest leaves of infected plants. | |
| coloration |
| 1. n. The act or art of coloring. | |
| 2. n. The quality of being colored. | |
| 3. n. (music) A notational devise for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation); or | |
| 4. n. (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid "black notes". | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| pattern |
| 1. n. Model, example. | |
| 2. n. Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline. | |
| 3. n. Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar. | |
| 4. n. (now rare) A copy. | |
| 5. n. (now only numismatics) A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted. | |
| 6. n. A representative example. | |
| 7. n. (US) The material needed to make a piece of clothing. | |
| 8. n. (textiles) The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling. | |
| 9. n. (metalworking, dated) A full-sized model around which a mould of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several p | |
| 10. n. (computing) A text string containing wildcards, used for matching. | |
| There were no files matching the pattern*.txt. | |
| 11. n. A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements. | |
| 12. n. A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect. | |
| 13. n. The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun. | |
| 14. n. A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship. | |
| 15. n. (linguistics) An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language. | |
| 16. v. To apply a pattern. | |
| 17. v. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. | |
| 18. v. To follow an example. | |
| 19. v. To fit into a pattern. | |
| 20. v. To serve as an example for. | |
