model

Meanings

Noun

• A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing.
• A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show.
• A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.
• A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.
• A style, type, or design.
• The structural design of a complex system.
• A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
• 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 animal that is used to study a human disease or pathology.
• 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.

Adjective

• Worthy of being a model; exemplary.

Verb

• to display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model
• to use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model
• to make a miniature model of
• to create from a substance such as clay
• to make a model or models
• to be a model of any kind

Related

Similar words

• modelise, US modelize

Narrower meaning words

• abstract model
• animal model
• arbitrage pricing model
• business model
• causal model
• commercial model
• computer model
• data model
• database model
• delegation model
• delegation-based model
• Document Object Model
• economy model
• enterprise architecture model
• entity-relationship model
• execution model
• fashion model
• fetish model
• fitness model
• glamour model
• information model
• late model
• mark to model
• mathematical model
• mental model
• object model
• object-relational model
• production model
• relational model
• role model
• runway model
• scale model
• scientific model
• V-model
• view model
• waterfall model
• water-line model

Origin

• From Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus, diminutive of modus; see mode, and compare module, modulus, mould, mold.