Definition of Model

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Definition of Model

Model

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.

Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.

That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.

Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.

A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.

Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.

To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.

To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.

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Model Quotations

I never thought a role model should be negative.
Michael Jordan

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
Tiger Woods

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord Byron

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
R. Lee Ermey

Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Rosa Parks

You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.
Norman Rockwell

Model Translations

model in Afrikaans is skema
model in Danish is model
model in Dutch is modelleren
model in Finnish is malli, kaava
model in German is Muster, Modell, Muster, Model
model in Italian is indossatrice, modello
model in Latin is exempoator, exemplum, exemplar
model in Portuguese is modelo
model in Spanish is modelo

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