Model
['mɒdl] or ['mɑdl]
Definition
(noun.) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale).
(noun.) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale).
(noun.) a type of product; 'his car was an old model'.
(noun.) a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process; 'the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems'.
(noun.) a representative form or pattern; 'I profited from his example'.
(noun.) a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor; 'the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos'.
(noun.) someone worthy of imitation; 'every child needs a role model'.
(verb.) form in clay, wax, etc; 'model a head with clay'.
(verb.) construct a model of; 'model an airplane'.
(verb.) create a representation or model of; 'The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights'.
(verb.) plan or create according to a model or models.
(verb.) display (clothes) as a mannequin; 'model the latest fashion'.
(verb.) assume a posture as for artistic purposes; 'We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often'.
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Definition
(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; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.
(n.) Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.
(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 to an artist.
(a.) Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
(v. t.) To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.
(v. i.) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Pattern, prototype, paradigm, archetype.[2]. Standard, gauge.
v. a. Shape, mould, form, plan, fashion.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Standard, pattern, example, type, mould, design, copy
ANT:Imitation, copy, production, execution, work
Edited by Gertrude
Definition
n. something to show the mode or way: something to be copied: a pattern: a mould: an imitation of something on a smaller scale: a living person from whom an artist works: something worthy of imitation.—adj. serving as a model: fit for a model.—v.t. to form after a model: to shape: to make a model or copy of: to form in some soft material.—v.i. to practise modelling:—pr.p. mod′elling; pa.p. mod′elled.—ns. Mod′eller; Mod′elling the act or art of making a model of something a branch of sculpture.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a model, foretells your social affairs will deplete your purse, and quarrels and regrets will follow. For a young woman to dream that she is a model or seeking to be one, foretells she will be entangled in a love affair which will give her trouble through the selfishness of a friend.
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Examples
- His model was a po em by Empedocles on Nature, the grand hexameters of which had fasci nated the Roman poet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was a single action, officer's model . Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the transportation building of the World’s Fair at Chicago in 1893 one of the most conspicuous objects of attention was the model of the great Bethlehem Iron Co. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They are not the thoughts of a model heroine under her circumstances, but they are those of a deeply-feeling, strongly-resentful peasant-girl. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- History fails to relate a great deal about the mechanical detail of the Pennington model, but it is said to have made a very creditable performance in exhibition. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Certain mechanics in New England, who had heard descriptions of his model, built machines on its lines, and sold them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- And in the Model A Addressograph, we find the basic principle of the addressograph of today. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You that should be models of industry are just as gossip-loving as the idle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She can sell her models. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In the hand addressograph, which sells for as low as $27, he has worked out three practical models having an average speed of from 750 to 1,500 names and addresses an hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These were all the speeches that were made, and I recommend them to parties who present policemen with gold watches, as models of brevity and point. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If knowledge of methods used by others does not directly tell us what to do, or furnish ready-made models, how does it operate? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Not merely for its general ideas and their artistic presentation but for its models of law it went to the records of alien peoples. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Some brought models, others drawings, still others a bare idea, and a few, of course, had just a plain bug. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They have a military school modelled after West Point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Figures have also been found modelled in clay, although no Pal?olithic people made any use of pottery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Was you ever modelled now? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His face looked as though it were modelled from the waste material you find under the claws of a very old lion. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was modelled on that of Athens,—a large semicircle hewn out of the volcanic rock, with seats of the red limestone so frequent in Melnos. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Mine was modelled in Rome by the great Ferrigiani. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Mercury never was modelled. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When Mr Crich heard that Gudrun Brangwen might come to help Winifred with her drawing and modelling he saw a road to salvation for his child. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I hope he will not go away before I finish modelling my Endymion. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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