pattern vs one-upmanship

one-upmanship vs pattern

pattern and one-upmanship both are nouns.

pattern is a verb but one-upmanship is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pattern	Yes	No	Yes	No
one-upmanship	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, one-upmanship is a hyponym of pattern; that is, one-upmanship is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pattern:

pattern: a customary way of operation or behavior
one-upmanship: the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor

Other hyponyms of pattern include biologism, cooperation, featherbedding, formalism, pluralism, symbolisation, symbolism, symbolization, modernism, occult, occult arts, ornamentalism, cannibalism, careerism, custom, usage, usance, habitude, fashion, lobbyism, slaveholding, slavery, peonage, unwritten law, lynch law, mistreatment, nonconformism, calisthenics, callisthenics, papism, popery, quotation, ritual, ritualism, naturism, nudism, systematism, cross dressing, transvestism, transvestitism.

pattern (noun)	one-upmanship (noun)
a customary way of operation or behavior	the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor
a decorative or artistic work
a perceptual structure
a model considered worthy of imitation
something intended as a guide for making something else
something regarded as a normative example
graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport

pattern (verb)	one-upmanship (verb)
plan or create according to a model or models
form a pattern

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