model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒdl̩/
ipa: /ˈmɑdl̩/
ipa: [ˈmɑ.ɾɫ]
homophone: mottle (flapping)
rhymes: -ɒdəl
Forms: form: models
form: modell
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: Leonardo da Vinci chose a 15th century criminal as a model for Judas in his painting The Last Supper.
text: The supersize model displayed the latest summer shorts fashion, tactfully representing similarly overweight teenagers.
glosses: A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.
glosses: A person, usually an attractive male or female, 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.
examples: text: The boy played with a model of a World War II fighter plane.
text: The biology teacher passed a large plastic model of the atomic structure of DNA around the classroom.
text: I had my father’s signet in my purse, / Which was the model of that Danish seal.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: You have here the models of ſeveral ancient Temples, though the Temples themſelves, and the Gods that vvere vvorſhipped in them, are periſhed many hundred years ago.
ref: a. 1720 (date written), [Joseph Addison], “Dialogue I”, in Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals. […], [London]: [s.n.], published 1726, →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: A representation of a physical object.
examples: text: machine learning model
text: The computer weather model did not correctly predict the path of the hurricane.
text: The trouble is, all those well-intentioned scientists who are arguing that we’re not in any imminent danger are basing their arguments on computer models. I’m basing mine on what’s actually happening.
ref: 2007 November 1, Jeff Goodell, quoting James Lovelock, “James Lovelock, the Prophet”, in Rolling Stone:
text: The fourth model is called the enlightment model: Actors are seen to be responsible for problems but unable or unwilling to provide solutions. They are believed to need discipline provided by authoritative guidance. The Alcoholic Anonymous^([sic]) groups are considered prototypical for this model.
ref: 2013 June 29, Leo Montada, “Coping with Life Stress”, in Herman Steensma, Riël Vermunt, editors, Social Justice in Human Relations Volume 2: Societal and Psychological Consequences of Justice and Injustice, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
examples: text: we service all makes and models
text: He decided to buy the turbo engine model of the sports car.
text: This year’s model features four doors instead of two.
text: Q: What make and model of car do you drive? A: It’s a Buick LaCrosse.
coordinate_terms: make
marque
glosses: A style, type, or design.
examples: text: The team developed a sound business model.
glosses: The structural design of a complex system.
examples: text: Near-synonym: (person) role model
text: He was a model of eloquence and virtue.
text: British parliamentary democracy was seen as a model for other countries to follow.
text: Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
coordinate_terms: mentor
glosses: A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
examples: text: They studied fasting and glycemia in a mouse model.
text: They studied Mendelian inheritance in a fruit fly model.
text: They studied plasmid transfer in a mycobacterial model.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: model organism
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Thou seest thy wretched brother die, / Who was the model of thy father's life.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
topics: architecture
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.
Synonyms: word: archetype
word: epitome
word: example
word: exemplar
word: icon
word: model
word: paradigm
word: paragon
word: pattern
word: quintessence
word: template
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: abstract model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: animal model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: arbitrage pricing model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: Bohr model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: business model
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word: causal model
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word: commercial model
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word: computer model
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word: database model
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word: data model
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word: delegation-based model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: delegation model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: Dixit-Stiglitz model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: Document Object Model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: dog-flea model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: economy model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: enterprise architecture model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: entity-relationship model
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word: execution model
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word: fashion model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: fetish model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: fitness model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: glamour model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: information model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: late model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: mark to model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: mathematical model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: mental model
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word: monkey model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: object model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: object-relational model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: Potts model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: production model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: Randall-Sundrum model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: relational model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: role model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: runway model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: Rutherford-Bohr model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: Rutherford model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: scale model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: scientific model
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word: small language model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: solid model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: tree model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: view model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: V-model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: waterfall model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: water-line model
sense: Hyponyms of "model"
word: world model
word: household deity
word: precedent
Derived terms: 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
model-based design
model-based testing
model basin
model building
modelbuilding
model car
model card
model checking
model collapse
model country
model-country
model dairy
modeldom
model-driven architecture
model-driven testing
modelesque
modelhood
model house
modelicious
model implementation
modelisation
modelish
modelization
modelizer
modellable
modelless
modellist
modelly
modelmaker
model maker
modelmaking
model minority
model nation
model number
modelome
modelomic
modelomics
model organism
model railway
model shop
model solution
Model T
model theory
model town
model-view-presenter
model village
multimodel
new-model
Nice model
nonmodel
Nordic model
off-model
Ogden-Roxburgh model
OSI model
palaeomodel
paleomodel
part-whole model
plamodel
plum pudding model
polder model
Preisach model
pseudomodel
Putnam model
quark model
Rasch model
rôle model
Schwarzschild model
ship model basin
sliding filament model
spacefilling model
space-filling model
spaghetti model
split attraction model
spokesmodel
Standard model
standard model
Standard Model
submodel
sub-model
supermodel
Swedish model
tick-tock model
toy model
ubermodel
utility model
wave model
Related terms: mode
module