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present participle of pattern
Synonyms & Antonyms of patterning
1
as in matching, modeling
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for patterning
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for patterning
2
as in striping, speckling
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for patterning
- checkering,
- dappling,
- daubing,
- flecking,
- marbling,
- mottling,
- polychroming,
- specking,
- speckling,
- streaking,
- striating,
- striping,
- variegating
- bepainting
- [archaic],
- coloring,
- dyeing,
- painting,
- pigmenting,
- staining,
- tincturing,
- tingeing
- (or tinging),
- tinting
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for patterning
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The first known use of patterning was in 1860
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