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Model

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail another, often larger object.

n. A preliminary work or construction that serves as a plan from which a final product is to be made: a clay model ready for casting.

n. Such a work or construction used in testing or perfecting a final product: a test model of a solar-powered vehicle.

n. A schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon that accounts for its known or inferred properties and may be used for further study of its characteristics: a model of generative grammar; a model of an atom; an economic model.

n. A style or design of an item: My car is last year's model.

n. One serving as an example to be imitated or compared: a model of decorum. See Synonyms at ideal.

n. One that serves as the subject for an artist, especially a person employed to pose for a painter, sculptor, or photographer.

n. A person employed to display merchandise, such as clothing or cosmetics.

n. Zoology An animal whose appearance is copied by a mimic.

v. To make or construct a model of.

v. To plan, construct, or fashion according to a model.

v. To make conform to a chosen standard: He modeled his manners on his father's.

v. To make by shaping a plastic substance: modeled a bust from clay.

v. To form (clay, for example) into a shape.

v. To display by wearing or posing.

v. In painting, drawing, and photography, to give a three-dimensional appearance to, as by shading or highlighting.

verb-intransitive. To make a model.

verb-intransitive. To serve or work as a model.

adj. Being, serving as, or used as a model.

adj. Worthy of imitation: a model child.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing.

n. A miniature representation of a physical object.

n. A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.

n. A style, type, or design.

n. The structural design of a complex system.

n. A praiseworthy example to be copied, with or without modifications.

n. An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.

n. An interpretation which makes a certain sentence true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that sentence.

n. A particular style, design, or make of a particular product.

n. An identifier of a product given by its manufacturer (also called model number).

adj. Worthy of being a model; exemplary.

v. To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.

v. To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model.

v. To make a miniature model of.

v. To create from a substance such as clay.

v. To make a model or models.

v. To be a model of any kind.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

n. Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan

n. Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation

n. That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.

n. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.

n. A person who poses as a pattern for an artist.

n. A person who is employed to wear clothing for the purpose of advertising or display, or who poses with a product for the same purpose; a mannequin{1}.

n. A particular version or design of an object that is made in multiple versions. For many manufactured products, the model name is encoded as part of the model number.

n. An abstract and often simplified conceptual representation of the workings of a system of objects in the real world, which often includes mathematical or logical objects and relations representing the objects and relations in the real-world system, and constructed for the purpose of explaining the workings of the system or predicting its behavior under hypothetical conditions.

adj. Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern

v. To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion

verb-intransitive. To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A standard for imitation or comparison; anything that serves or may serve as a pattern or type; that with which something else is made to agree in form or character, or which is regarded as a fitting exemplar.

n. Specifically

n. A detailed pattern of a thing to be made; a representation, generally in miniature, of the parts, proportions, and other details to be copied in a complete production.

n. In the fine arts:

n. A living person who serves a painter or sculptor as the type of a figure he is painting or modeling, or poses for that purpose during the execution of the work; also, one who poses before a class to serve as an object to be drawn or painted.

n. In sculpture, also, an image in clay or plaster intended to be reproduced in stone or metal.

n. A canon, such as the sculptural canons of Polycletus and Lysippus, or the fancied rigid canons for the human form in ancient Egypt. See doryphorus and Lysippan.

n. A plan or mode of formation or constitution; type shown or manifested; typical form, style or method: as, to build a house on the model of a Greek temple; to form one's style on the model of Addison.

n. A mechanical imitation or copy of an object, generally on a miniature scale, designed to show its formation: as, a model of Jerusalem or of Cologne cathedral; a model of the human body.

n. Hence An exact reproduction; a facsimile.

n. An abbreviated or brief form. See module, 1.

Serving as a model.

Worthy to serve as a model or exemplar; exemplary: as, a model husband.

To form or plan according to a model; make conformable to a pattern or type; construct or arrange in a set manner.

To mold or shape on or as on a model; give form to by any means: as, to model a hat on a block; to model a ship; specifically, in drawing or painting, to give an appearance of natural relief to.

To make a model of; execute a copy or representation of; imitate in form: as, to model a figure in wax.

To make a model or models; especially, in the fine arts, to form a work of some plastic material: as, to model in wax.

To take the form of a model; assume a typical or natural appearance, or, in a drawing or painting, an appearance of natural relief.

n. See the extract.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a representative form or pattern

n. a type of product

v. construct a model of

n. the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)

adj. worthy of imitation

n. someone worthy of imitation

n. a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

n. something to be imitated

n. a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor

v. create a representation or model of

n. representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)

n. a woman who wears clothes to display fashions

v. display (clothes) as a mannequin

v. assume a posture as for artistic purposes

v. plan or create according to a model or models

v. form in clay, wax, etc

Word Usage

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Equivalent

worthy

Verb Form

modeled modeling modelled modelling models

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

sort form kind variety interpret represent re-create expose display exhibit

Cross Reference

waterline model model doll half-model the new model

Variant

modelling modelled

Form

modeled modelled modeling modelling

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

plan standard shape mold fashion fork pattern design example dummy

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

caudal coddle remodel toddle twaddle waddle

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

type system analysis theory product pattern