model.
A person who poses as a subject or visual reference for an artist.
Meaning & usage
A person who poses as a subject or visual reference for an artist.
Leonardo da Vinci chose a 15th century criminal as a model for Judas in his painting The Last Supper.
A person who wears and showcases clothing, accessories, or cosmetics to promote or display them to an audience.
The supersize model displayed the latest summer shorts fashion, tactfully representing similarly overweight teenagers.
My mother was a hand model when she was young.
A person, usually attractive, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.
A person who performs or poses in erotic or pornographic media.
A representation of a physical object.
The boy played with a model of a World War II fighter plane.
The biology teacher passed a large plastic model of the atomic structure of DNA around the classroom.
A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
The computer weather model did not correctly predict the path of the hurricane.
A set of parameters trained on data to perform artificial intelligence tasks such as prediction, classification, or generation.
machine learning model
A style, type, or design.
we service all makes and models
He decided to buy the turbo engine model of the sports car.
The structural design of a complex system.
The team developed a sound business model.
A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
He was a model of eloquence and virtue.
British parliamentary democracy was seen as a model for other countries to follow.
An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
An organism or species that is used to study an aspect of physiology or pathophysiology or a particular disease; often, a nonhuman one used to approximate processes in humans.
They studied fasting and glycemia in a mouse model.
They studied Mendelian inheritance in a fruit fly model.
Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Late Latin modulusder. Vulgar Latin *modellus Old Italian modellobor. Middle French modellebor. English model From Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus (“measure, standard”), diminutive of modus (“measure”); see mode, and compare module, modulus, mould, mold.
Worthy of being a model; exemplary.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Late Latin modulusder. Vulgar Latin *modellus Old Italian modellobor. Middle French modellebor. English model From Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus (“measure, standard”), diminutive of modus (“measure”); see mode, and compare module, modulus, mould, mold.
To display an item on one's body for others to see the potential effect on their own bodies, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.
She modelled the shoes for her friends to appreciate.
To devise a model of (some original), especially to better understand or forecast the original.
They modelled weather patterns using a computer.
To make a miniature model of.
He takes great pride in his skill at modeling airplanes.
To create from a substance such as clay.
The sculptor modelled the clay into the form of a dolphin.
To make a model or models.
To work as a model in art or fashion.
The actress used to model before being discovered by Hollywood.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Late Latin modulusder. Vulgar Latin *modellus Old Italian modellobor. Middle French modellebor. English model From Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus (“measure, standard”), diminutive of modus (“measure”); see mode, and compare module, modulus, mould, mold.
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