English Explanatory Dictionary

model

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.
  2. 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.
  3. A representation of a physical object.
  4. A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
  5. A style, type, or design.
  6. The structural design of a complex system.
  7. A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
  8. An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
  9. An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
  10. 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.
  11. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
  12. In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.
adj
  1. Worthy of being a model; exemplary.
verb
  1. 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.
  2. To devise a model of (some original), especially to better understand or forecast the original.
  3. To make a miniature model of.
  4. To create from a substance such as clay.
  5. To make a model or models.
  6. To work as a model in art or fashion.
name
  1. A barangay of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines.

Pronunciation

/ˈmɒd.l̩/ [ˈmɒd.ɫ̩] /ˈmɑ.dl̩/ [ˈmɑ.ɾɫ̩] en-us-model.ogg /ˈmɔd.l̩/ [ˈmɔɾ.ɫ̩]

Word forms

model models modell modeling modelling modeled modelled

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

archetype epitome example exemplar icon model paradigm paragon pattern quintessence template role model model organism ideal modelise modelize

Antonyms

antimodel copy derivative imitation

Related words

mode module

Derived words

acculturation model acoustic model aeromodel ball-and-stick model Bertrand-Edgeworth model Beveridge model biomodel Black-Scholes model block model bootstrap model Bouc-Wen model box model bumblebee model cache language model calotte model cisternal maturation model cloverleaf model cobweb model computational model conservative model Copernican model countermodel CPK model dispersive model Document Object Model Dreyfus model Dreyfus model of skill acquisition dual-sector model Duluth model Ehrenfest model FK model floor model foundation model Frenkel-Kontorova model glamor model halfway model hand model Hardy-Weinberg model hidden Markov model information deficit model intermodel intramodel Ising model Jiles-Atherton model Kripke model Kuramoto model language model large language model Lewis model lumped-element model macromodel Markov model mark-to-model megamodel meta model metamodel meta-model micromodel model act model aircraft

Translations

Albanian: model Arabic: عَارِضُ أَزْيَاءٍ Arabic: مُودِيل Arabic: مودل Arabic: عارض أزياء Armenian: բնորդ Armenian: մոդել Azerbaijani: model Bashkir: өлгө Bashkir: үрнәк Belarusian: мадэ́ль Bulgarian: моде́л Bulgarian: моде́лка Burmese: မော်ဒယ် Burmese: ဟန်ပြမယ် Catalan: model Chinese Cantonese: 模特兒 /模特儿 Hakka Chinese: 模特兒 /模特儿 Chinese: 模特兒 /模特儿 Chinese Mandarin: 模特兒 /模特儿 Chinese Mandarin: 模特 Czech: model Czech: modelka Czech: manekýn Czech: manekýna Czech: manekýnka Danish: model Danish: fotomodel Dutch: model Dutch: mannequin Esperanto: pozistino Esperanto: pozisto Faroese: fotomodell Finnish: malli Finnish: mannekiini Finnish: valokuvamalli French: mannequin French: modèle Galician: modelo Georgian: მოდელი German: Model German: Fotomodell German: Mannequin Greek: μοντέλο Hebrew: דֻּגְמָן \ דוגמן Hebrew: דֻּגְמָנִית \ דוגמנית Hindi: माडेल Hindi: मॉडल Hungarian: manöken Hungarian: modell Icelandic: fyrirsæta Icelandic: módel Indonesian: model Irish: mainicín Irish: cuspa Italian: modello Italian: modella Italian: indossatore Japanese: モデル Kazakh: үлгі Kazakh: модель Khmer: ម៉ូដែល Korean: 모델 Kyrgyz: модель Kyrgyz: үлгү Lao: ນາງແບບ Macedonian: модел Malay: peragawan Malay: peragawati Malay: model Māori: kaiwhakakite Dutch: model staan Finnish: työskennellä mallina Hungarian: modellkedik Irish: bheith ag mainicíneacht Italian: fare il modello Italian: fare la modella Spanish: modelar
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