model
 mod·el (mŏdʹl)n.
1. A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail another, often larger object.
2.
a. A preliminary work or construction that serves as a plan from which a final product is to be made:
a clay model ready for casting.
b. Such a work or construction used in testing or perfecting a final product:
a test model of a solar-powered vehicle.
3. A schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon that accounts for its known or inferred properties and may be used for further study of its characteristics:
a model of generative grammar; a model of an atom; an economic model.
4. A style or design of an item:
My car is last year's model.
5. One serving as an example to be imitated or compared:
a model of decorum.
See Synonyms at ideal.
6. One that serves as the subject for an artist, especially a person employed to pose for a painter, sculptor, or photographer.
7. A person employed to display merchandise, such as clothing or cosmetics.
8. Zoology. An animal whose appearance is copied by a mimic.v. mod·eled, also mod·elled mod·el·ing, mod·el·ling mod·els, mod·elsv. tr.
1. To make or construct a model of.
2. To plan, construct, or fashion according to a model.
3. To make conform to a chosen standard:
He modeled his manners on his father's.
4. To make by shaping a plastic substance:
model clay.
5. To display by wearing or posing.
6. In painting, drawing, and photography, to give a three-dimensional appearance to, as by shading or highlighting.v. intr.
1. To make a model.
2. To serve or work as a model.adj.
1. Being, serving as, or used as a model.
2. Worthy of imitation:
a model child. [French modèle, from Italian modello, diminutive of modo, form, from Latin modus, measure, standard. See med- in Indo-European Roots.] modʹel·er n.
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