pattern (something) on

: a form or model proposed for imitation : exemplar

: something designed or used as a model for making things

: an artistic, musical, literary, or mechanical design or form

: match

: imitate

: to make, adapt, or fashion according to a pattern

: some indeterminate or unspecified thing

: some indeterminate amount more than a specified number

: a person or thing of consequence

: in some degree : somewhat

used as an intensive giving adverbial force to an adjective