Definitions for model

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model mod·el

Spelling: [mod-l]

IPA: /ˈmɒd l/

Model is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in model (delmo).

Definitions for model

noun

1. a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
2. a representation, generally in miniature, to show the construction or appearance of something.
3. an image in clay, wax, or the like, to be reproduced in more durable material.
4. a person or thing that serves as a subject for an artist, sculptor, writer, etc.
5. a person whose profession is posing for artists or photographers.
6. a person employed to wear clothing or pose with a product for purposes of display and advertising.
7. a style or design of a particular product:
8. a pattern or mode of structure or formation.
9. a typical form or style.
10. a simplified representation of a system or phenomenon, as in the sciences or economics, with any hypotheses required to describe the system or explain the phenomenon, often mathematically.
11. Zoology. an animal that is mimicked in form or color by another.

adjective

1. serving as an example or model:
2. worthy to serve as a model; exemplary:
3. being a small or miniature version of something:

verb (used with object)

1. to form or plan according to a model.
2. to give shape or form to; fashion.
3. to make a miniature model of.
4. to fashion in clay, wax, or the like.
5. to simulate (a process, concept, or the operation of a system), commonly with the aid of a computer.
6. to display to other persons or to prospective customers, especially by wearing:
7. to use or include as an element in a larger construct:

verb (used without object)

1. to make models.
2. to produce designs in some plastic material.
3. to assume a typical or natural appearance, as the parts of a drawing in progress.
4. to serve or be employed as a model.

Origin of model

1565-75; earlier modell Middle French modelle Italian modello Vulgar Latin *modellus, equivalent to Latin mod(ulus) (see module) + -ellus -elle

Examples for model

But remember, there is a model which must be taken even before that of your father.

Banking malware and certain “crimeware” kits have been using this model for years.

He produced the model of an ingenious contrivance for grinding corn.

It has also passed a model child-labor law for the District of Columbia.

If the Israel model ban were directed towards disordered eating, Ravin says she would support it whole-heartedly.

One might have been a model for the seraphs of Christian faith, the other an Olympian deity.

On the cover, Wonder Woman resembles a 16-year-old model doing a pee-pee dance.

It was jestingly said that the model for the Odeum was from his own head.

It involved a model of the tower set on its side for the shot.

They are model citizens, the kind of people whose lives might be used as exemplary stories by a politician in a stump speech.