transcription, транскрипция: [ pætə(r) ]
( patters, pattering, pattered)
1.
If something patters on a surface, it hits it quickly several times, making quiet, tapping sounds.
Rain pattered gently outside, dripping on to the roof from the pines.
VERB : V adv / prep
2.
A patter is a series of quick, quiet, tapping sounds.
...the patter of the driving rain on the roof.
N-SING : oft the N of n
3.
Someone’s patter is a series of things that they say quickly and easily, usually in order to entertain people or to persuade them to buy or do something.
Fran began her automatic patter about how Jon had been unavoidably detained.
N-SING : usu poss N