The difference between Form and Pattern
When used as nouns, form means the shape or visible structure of a thing or person, whereas pattern means something from which a copy is made.
When used as verbs, form means to assume (a certain shape or visible structure), whereas pattern means to apply a pattern.
check bellow for the other definitions of Form and Pattern
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Form as a noun (physical):
To do with shape. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. Characteristics not involving atomic components. A long bench with no back. The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
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Form as a noun (social):
To do with structure or procedure. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality. A class or rank in society. A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area). A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in ).
Examples:
"a republican form of government"
"a matter of mere form'"
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Form as a noun:
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
Examples:
"To apply for the position, complete the application form."
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Form as a noun:
Level of performance.
Examples:
"The team's form has been poor this year."
"The orchestra was on top form this evening."
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Form as a noun (grammar):
A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
Examples:
"participial forms;  verb forms'"
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Form as a noun:
The den or home of a hare.
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Form as a noun (computing, programming):
A window or dialogue box.
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Form as a noun (taxonomy):
An infraspecific rank.
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Form as a noun (printing, dated):
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
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Form as a noun (geometry):
A quantic.
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Form as a noun (sports, fitness):
A specific way of performing a movement.
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Form as a verb (transitive):
To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
Examples:
"When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies."
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Form as a verb (transitive):
To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
Examples:
"Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet."
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Form as a verb (intransitive):
To take shape.
Examples:
"When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy."
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Form as a verb:
To put together or bring into being; assemble.
Examples:
"The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government."
"Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960."
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Form as a verb (transitive, linguistics):
To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
Examples:
"By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective."
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Form as a verb (transitive):
To constitute, to compose, to make up.
Examples:
"Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders."
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Form as a verb:
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
Examples:
"Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality."
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Form as a verb:
To provide (a hare) with a form.
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Form as a verb (electrical, historical, transitive):
To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
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Pattern as a noun (now, _, rare):
Model, example. Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline. Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar. A copy. A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted. A representative example. The material needed to make a piece of clothing. The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling. 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 parts, so as to be removed from the mould without damage. A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.
Examples:
"There were no files matching the pattern <code>*.txt</code>."
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Pattern as a noun:
A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
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Pattern as a noun:
A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.
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Pattern as a noun:
The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
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Pattern as a noun:
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.
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Pattern as a noun (linguistics):
An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
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Pattern as a verb:
To apply a pattern.
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Pattern as a verb:
To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
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Pattern as a verb:
To follow an example.
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Pattern as a verb:
To fit into a pattern.
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Pattern as a verb (transitive):
To serve as an example for.