Word Finder - model

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A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing.

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The beautiful model had her face on the cover of almost every fashion magazine imaginable.

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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.

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A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.

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The boy played with a model of a World War II fighter plane.

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A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.

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The computer weather model did not correctly predict the path of the hurricane.

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A style, type, or design.

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He decided to buy the turbo engine model of the sports car.

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The structural design of a complex system.

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The team developed a sound business model.

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A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.

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British parliamentary democracy was seen as a model for other countries to follow.

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An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.

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An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.

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An animal that is used to study a human disease or pathology.

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Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.

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In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.

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To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model

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She modelled the shoes for her friends to see.

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To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model

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They modelled the data with a computer to analyze the experiment’s results.

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To make a miniature model of

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He takes great pride in his skill at modeling airplanes.

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To create from a substance such as clay

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The sculptor modelled the clay into the form of a dolphin.

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To make a model or models

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To be a model of any kind

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The actress used to model before being discovered by Hollywood.

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Worthy of being a model; exemplary.

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• ideal

This model came out back this winter.

Such is a model farm.

They allowed me to model it last night.

The svelte model wore towering boots and a one- piece cat suit that left nothing to the imagination.

She was tall and willowy, a former model that'd made it big.

Into the mould left by the saint's body liquid plaster of Paris was run, and a perfect model obtained, showing the features of the youth, the cords which bound him, and even the texture of his clothing.

Jessi took a step away from him and waved at Toni to make certain the model saw them.

Parkside would remain untainted and a favored place to live and raise healthy, God fearing children who would become model citi­zens like those to whom he spoke.

Buy a bikini and model for him.

Additionally, we will at some point in the not-too-distant future have enough biological understanding of the genome and enough computer horsepower to model complex interactions in the body.

One towered just as tall as the other men but was thinner than any waif-like model she had seen on earth.

In the neighbourhood is a model village, with an elementary school, an industrial school for whites, a hospital and a church, maintained by Mr Vanderbilt.

The ancients have left us model heroic poems in which the heroes furnish the whole interest of the story, and we are still unable to accustom ourselves to the fact that for our epoch histories of that kind are meaningless.

I told him we were trying to trace the electric bike by its model but asked about checking hospitals.

The normal schools, maintained by the state on a secular basis, were founded by President Sarmiento, who engaged experienced teachers in the United States to direct them; their work is excellent; notably, their model primary schools.

The bag was an expensive, down-filled model, and like everything else, showed little if any signs of wear.

In 1822 Belzoni showed his model in Paris.

The first woman up was most certainly a model.

Indeed, All Souls was more of a lay foundation than its model.

There are museums of mineralogy and geology, a lower school of mining, model room and scientific library.

The judiciary system of Italy is mainly framed on the French model.

Orchards and fruit gardens are well developed; the crown maintains two model gardens.

There is a model farm belonging to the municipality in the suburbs.

Each province has a number of normal and model schools for the training of teachers.

The town has a church constructed on the model of a Greek temple.

It was regarded as a model for many subsequent works.

As twenty years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this letter, he now was.

She packed a serious punch, despite the purr of a 1940s pinup model.

She planned on telling him her name was Kelli, and that she was a model.

With large, brown eyes and dark hair, she was toned and tall, a model's body with an extra layer of muscle.

His military service terminated at the time of the Self-denying Ordinance in 1645; he had associated himself with the Presbyterian faction, and naturally enough was not included in the New Model.

In 1716 this presbytery became a synod by dividing itself into four "subordinate meetings or presbyteries," after the Irish model.

Young advised them to call their state Vermont, and he also sent through them a circular letter, dated the nth of April 1777, urging the people to adopt a state constitution on the Pennsylvania model.

The first of these, based on the English model, are the courts of the elected justices of the peace, with jurisdiction over petty causes, whether civil or criminal; the second, based on the French model, are the ordinary tribunals of nominated judges, sitting with or without a jury to hear important cases.

Like the tsar, he had the official title of " Great Lord " (veliki gosudar), and he had his palace, his court-dignitaries, his retinue, his boyars and his officials all organized on the model of those of the sovereign.

The classical model for all apocalyptic is to be found in Dan.

The administration of justice is on the French model.

A parliament in London in September 1305 to which Scottish representatives were summoned, agreed to an ordinance for the government of Scotland, which, though on the model of those for Wales and Ireland, treating Scotland as a third subject province under an English lieutenant, was in other respects not severe.

Lamartine has been extolled as a pattern of combined passion and restraint, as a model of nobility of sentiment, and as a harmonizer of pure French classicism in taste and expression with much, if not all, the better part of Romanticism itself.

As his model in medical methods, Sydenham repeatedly and pointedly refers to Hippocrates, and he has not unfairly been called the English Hippocrates.

The fragments of the poem of Empedocles show that the Roman poet regarded that work as his model.

His perfect openness, the notoriety of his bankruptcies and of the seizure of his books and furniture in execution, kept him before the world as a model of dissipation.

Under his patronage Alcuin organized the school of the palace, where the royal children were taught in the company of others, and founded a school at Tours which became the model for many other establishments.

The various inquiries instituted during the middle ages, such as the Domesday Book and the Breviary of Charlemagne, were so far on the Roman model that they took little or no account of the population, the feudal system probably rendering information regarding it unnecessary for the purposes of taxation or military service.

It might have been expected that the concession of universal suffrage in the case of the House of Deputies would have led to the abolition of the class system of voting for the legislative bodies of the several territories and the introduction of an equal franchise, and also to the doing away with the three-class system of voting - established on the Prussian model - in the case of the election of municipal representatives.

Nature, limited in her resources for adaptation, fashioned so many of these animals in like form that we have learned only recently to distinguish similarities cf analogous habit from the similitudes of real kinship. From whatever order of Mammalia or Reptilia an animal may be derived, prolonged aquatic adaptation will model its outer, and finally its inner, structure according to certain advantageous designs.

The chasuble or planeta (as it is called in the Roman missal), according to the prevailing model in the Roman Catholic Church, is a scapularlike cloak, with a hole in the middle for the head, falling down over breast and back, and leaving the arms uncovered at the sides.

At the beginning of the 18th century Timur was represented in Rowe's Tamerlane as a model of valour and virtue.

The Dominican church, a Gothic building of the 13th century, but practically rebuilt after a fire in 1850; the Franciscan church, also of the 13th century, also much modernized; the church of St Florian of the 12th century, rebuilt in 1768, which contains the late-Gothic altar by Veit Stoss, executed in 1518, during his last sojourn in Cracow; the church of St Peter, with a colossal dome, built in 1597, after the model of that of St Peter at Rome, and the beautiful Augustinian church in the suburb of Kazimierz, are all worth mentioning.

The Constitution is a document of the first importance in the history of the world, because it has not only determined the course of events in the American Republic, but has also influenced, or become a model for, other constitutions, such as those of Switzerland (1848 and 1874), Canada (1867), Australia (1900), besides Mexico and the numerous republics of South and Central America.