MODEL
Definition:
- [noun] a simplified description of a complex entity or process; "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"
Synonyms: theoretical account, framework
- [noun] a type of product; "his car was an old model"
- [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"
Synonyms: poser
- [noun] representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
Synonyms: simulation
- [noun] something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"
Synonyms: exemplar, example, good example
- [noun] someone worthy of imitation; "every child needs a role model"
Synonyms: role
- [noun] a representative form or pattern; "I profited from his example"
Synonyms: example
- [noun] a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; "she was too fat to be a mannequin"
Synonyms: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion
- [noun] the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
Synonyms: ling, ing
- [verb] plan or create according to a model or models
Synonyms: pattern
- [verb] form in clay, wax, etc; "model a head with clay"
Synonyms: mold, mould
- [verb] assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
Synonyms: pose, sit, posture
- [verb] display (clothes) as a mannequin; "model the latest fashion"
- [verb] create a representation or model of; "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights"
Synonyms: simulate
- [verb] construct a model of; "model an airplane"
Synonyms: mock up
- [adjective] worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens"
Synonyms: exemplary
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Related Words:
- scale
- sovietize, sovietise
- ramp
- simulation, computer simulation
- mean sun
- Copernican system
- Ptolemaic system
- stochastic process
- artist's model, sitter
- dressmaker's model
- photographer's model
- figure
- globe
- mock-up
- planetarium
- restoration
- roughcast
- beauty, beaut
- pacesetter, pacemaker
- pattern
- prodigy
- ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch
- trend-setter, taste-maker, fashion arbiter
- lodestar, loadstar
- prototype, paradigm, epitome, image
- type specimen, holotype
- microcosm
- original, archetype, pilot
- template, templet, guide
- prefiguration
- supermodel
- simulation