patterner

Noun

1. Someone who or something which makes or uses a pattern.
   • Between two tall blades in the clearing a spider had spun a web, a circle delicately suspended. The silver threads caught the sunlight. In the center the spinner waited, a gray-black thing no larger than the pupil of an...
   • When her head and trunk are turned right, her left leg and right arm are bent and her right leg and left arm are straightened out. When she is shifted to the left, legs and arms are moved in the opposite direction. The...
   • 1. A method of producing a rotating, clamped stencil on which a pattern is produced by a patterner comprising the steps of: moving a patterning head of the patterner relative to the stencil; […] - 1996, Hannes Fischer,...
2. Something which follows a pattern, or may be identified as part of a pattern.
   • the terms object patterners and verb patterners will be used here for those elements whose order tends to correlate with that of the object and verb respectively. Thus genitives are object patterners while the nouns...