Model
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Pronunciation
Noun
- Template:Countable A model is a something that is made to look or act like something else, usually being smaller or simpler than the original.
- Mathematical models can greatly help researchers understand the behavior of real systems.
- The company builds and sells detailed 3-D models of the human body.
- Scientists have developed a theoretical model of the planet's interior that describes one possibility.
- A few years ago, the best climate models predicted that there would soon be an ice-free Arctic during the summer.
- There is a good fit between the four-factor model and the data in this study.
- His father had been a small man with a kind face and large hands who helped him build model airplanes and rockets.
- Template:Countable A model is an example of something, a goal, or a way to do something.
- Both men and women who had public athletic role models during childhood were more likely to play sports at a higher level.
- Each university used a variety of different instructional models.
- It was a model company, combining high profits, happy workers, and clean, efficient production methods.
- Template:Context Template:Context; Template:Countable A model is a person who puts on clothes, glasses, jewelery, etc. to show them at shows and in photographs or who poses for paintings or sculptures.
- High-fashion runway models are typically 5 foot 10 inches or taller.
- He develops his paintings without models being present in the studio.
- Template:Countable A model is a kind or design of car or other machine.
- The wireless phone will be installed in future models from GM, Toyota and Honda.
Synonyms
Verb
- Template:Ti verb If you model clothes, jewelery, etc., you wear them to show them at shows and in photographs.
- Template:Transitive If you model an action, you show how it is done.
- Parents should model the behavior they want without forcing or controlling the child.
- All music teachers can model good and poor tone quality.
- Template:Transitive If you model on , you try to make like .
- There's a youth baseball field modeled after Fenway Park in the old Memorial Stadium.
- Template:Transitive If you model something, you make a smaller, simpler copy of it.
- He's trying to model the human thought process on the computer.