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Model   /mˈɑdəl/   Listen
Model

noun
1.
A hypothetical description of a complex entity or process.  Synonyms: framework, theoretical account.
2.
A type of product.
3.
A person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor.  Synonym: poser.
4.
Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale).  Synonym: simulation.
5.
Something to be imitated.  Synonyms: example, exemplar, good example.  "A model of clarity" , "He is the very model of a modern major general"
6.
Someone worthy of imitation.  Synonym: role model.
7.
A representative form or pattern.  Synonym: example.
8.
A woman who wears clothes to display fashions.  Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin.
9.
The act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale).  Synonyms: modeling, modelling.
verb
(past & past part. modeled or modelled; pres. part. modeling or modelling)
1.
Plan or create according to a model or models.  Synonym: pattern.
2.
Form in clay, wax, etc.  Synonyms: mold, mould.
3.
Assume a posture as for artistic purposes.  Synonyms: pose, posture, sit.
4.
Display (clothes) as a mannequin.
5.
Create a representation or model of.  Synonym: simulate.
6.
Construct a model of.  Synonym: mock up.
adjective
1.
Worthy of imitation.  Synonym: exemplary.  "Model citizens"



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"Model" Quotes from Famous Books



... the world by ascending in machines "on entirely new and revolutionary principles, on which they had been working for ten years." Sometimes it was for eight years they had been working. But always they remarked that "the model from which the machine will be built has flown perfectly in the presence of some of the most prominent men in the locality." These machines had a great deal to do with the mysterious qualities ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... this time, a model and school for the Prussian cavalry; they consisted of one single squadron of men selected from the whole army, and their uniform was the most splendid in all Europe. Two thousand rix-dollars were necessary to equip ...
— The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck - Vol. 1 (of 2) • Baron Trenck
... hospitality was well known, and no expense had been spared to give his guests as favourable an impression of his talent as possible. A couple of knights, clad in complete steel—the local greengrocer and an Italian model—took the guests' hats, and announced their names; there were daffodils and azaleas in profusion; the Red Roumanians performed national airs in the studio-gallery; Italian mandolinists sang and strummed on the staircase, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 9th, 1892 • Various
... effect of this has been that it is now possible to say that no uniform worn by an American soldier is the product of sweatshop toil, and that so far as the Government is concerned in its purchases of garments it is a model employer. ...
— World's War Events, Vol. II • Various
... he considered, to pretend that he was married. Not that he was perfect: far from it! He did not set up as a model. He had had scandals in his life: he admitted it humbly; and, if some jealous person, some Jimmy, for instance, wanted to do him harm, all he had to do was to dig in the heap, instead of hawking round that ...
— The Bill-Toppers • Andre Castaigne


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