intricate pattern
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- noun
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patrón intrincado
- Its intricate patterns, for imprinting wet clay 2,300 years ago, are perfectly preserved.
- create intricate patterns
- intricate patterns of color
Mel told me that later he's he's sewing beads onto it in this intricate pattern.
- Mel told me that later he's he's sewing beads onto it in this intricate pattern.
Examples
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Multicolored threads and tiny beads no larger than two millimeters in diameter are woven into intricate patterns on cloth.
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As he pulls on the thread, a tiny blob of glass takes its place on an intricate pattern of flowers and birds.
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The intricate patterns require 40 passes over the cloth... and each pass involves the entire length of the table.
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The wool had an intricate pattern, and the "rug" itself is very flat.
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An intricate pattern so dense it looks like a solid, impenetrable wall of light.
Fiction book (1995) -
Snowflakes settled on his bare wrist and briefly revealed their intricate patterns.
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Cords of silk, knotted one strand at a time, formed an intricate pattern of twined leaves and flowers.
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Three others sat behind large looms, meticulously weaving the wool threads into intricate patterns.
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Intricate patterns of fragmented rock, strips of scruffy tundra, and bedrock outcrops produce lonely, foreboding mosaics upon the landscape.
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The foyer floor was marble with an intricate pattern centered below a chandelier.
Synonyms
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A pattern with many small connected parts that looks very detailed
Antonyms
How Complex
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a complex and detailed design' is directly composed from 'intricate' (complex, elaborate) + 'pattern' (design or repeated motif). This is a straightforward, compositional nominal phrase following common adjective + noun semantics found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Intricate pattern shows a clear image: a fine woven cloth or a spider's web made of many small threads, where intricate means many little parts and pattern is the repeated design. So, intricate pattern means 'a complex and detailed design' where many connected parts form the whole.