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Modeling   /mˈɑdəlɪŋ/  /mˈɑdlɪŋ/   Listen
Modeling

noun
(Written also modelling)
1.
Sculpture produced by molding.  Synonyms: clay sculpture, mold, molding, mould, moulding.
2.
A preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied.  Synonyms: modelling, molding, moulding.
3.
The act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale).  Synonyms: model, modelling.






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"Modeling" Quotes from Famous Books



... will retire, and in an almost incredibly brief space of time will return with an excellent likeness of the individual whom they design to represent, not merely as regards his ordinary physique, but in facial expression. Practice has made them quite perfect in this impromptu modeling. Chihuahua, if we may credit the historians, as well as judge by the remains, once had a population of two ...
— Aztec Land • Maturin M. Ballou

... The driven restlessness that had made Conscience doubt her sanity was slowly yielding to a sense of repose, as the tautened anguish of a mangled body relaxes to the balm of an anesthetic. Slowly the slenderly curved and graciously proportioned modeling of her lithe figure quieted from spasmodic unrest and the wild racing measure of her heart-beat calmed. Then she turned up her face. Her eyes cleared and her lips tilted their corners in ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck

... to pinch bits of modeling wax out of a round tin box, and to stick them all over the sketch he ...
— Between Friends • Robert W. Chambers

... a given idea to clay much depends upon the method of executing it. It will take widely differing forms when executed by incising, by modeling, ...
— Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. • William Henry Holmes

... The modeling of the replicas of well-known art works were, almost without exception, made in clay. Most of the original work was directly modelled in plaster-staff used so successfully throughout the Exposition. For ...
— The City of Domes • John D. Barry


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