看得見的排列
這一支的表面是看得見的：毛皮、翅膀、陶器、地板。
noun · C1
The markings on something — the way shapes and colours are arranged over a surface, especially on an animal's skin, fur, feathers or wings.
花紋；斑紋
核心畫面
Start with one shape — a ring, a stripe, a tile. Now pull the camera back until you can see that the shape keeps coming back, in order, across the whole surface. That pulling-back is what the -ing adds: patterning is not the shape, it is the repeating arrangement the shapes make. Some surfaces you can see, like a wing or a floor; one of them you cannot, because it is made of what people keep doing.
先看一個圖形：一圈紋路、一條斑、一塊磁磚。然後把鏡頭往後拉，看見這個圖形一再出現，整片排開。-ing 加上去，加的就…更多收起
先看一個圖形：一圈紋路、一條斑、一塊磁磚。然後把鏡頭往後拉，看見這個圖形一再出現，整片排開。-ing 加上去，加的就是這個「往後拉」的動作——patterning 不是那個圖形，是圖形排出來的整體。有些表面看得見，例如翅膀、地板；有一種看不見，因為它是由人一再重複的行為排出來的。From the word’s history
From pattern + -ing.
這個字就是 pattern 加上 -ing。pattern 是一再出現的樣式，-ing 把重點推向「正在排、被排出來」。
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Two branches
看不見的排列
同樣是一再重複排出固定的樣子，只是這次的「表面」是行為，看不見，只能從研究裡描述出來。
noun · C2
The way set ways of behaving, thinking, speaking or doing things build up in people, through copying others and repeating the same actions over a long time.
（行為、文化的）模式化養成
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
patterningnoun
- 1
A pattern; the production of a pattern; the process of forming a pattern.
- […] the tesseræ will form patterns which for us are wholly meaningless, yet the patterning in every case is equally specific and inevitable, implying the pattern above it, implied in that below[…]
- Any system of geometric patterning that covers or fills a surface using a finite set of shapes is considered tiling in a mathematical sense.
- 2
Emulation, following as a model; frequently with after.
- When it is serious it leads to a copying after the manners and personal habits of elders, and a patterning after the style of dress in those whom the children admire.
- His name became synonymous with God himself. Therefore, to be called by his name involved an inseparable commitment to a patterning after his life and a confession of his being.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。