I. noun
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a fashion model
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Fashion models are usually very tall.
a model citizen (= a very good one )
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His neighbours described him as a model citizen.
a positive role model
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We should provide girls with more positive role models.
computer modelling
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computer modelling of the city’s traffic flow
held up as a model
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The school is held up as a model for others.
nude model
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I did some work as a nude model when I was in college.
positive role model
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I want to be a positive role model for my sister.
role model
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I want to be a positive role model for my sister.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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There has been a substantial literature on macroeconomic disequilibrium, but there is considerable disagreement about the appropriateness of different models .
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The gun industry suggests a different model for gun owners to emulate.
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Surprisingly, although they were all different models from different eras, they had the same familiar feel about them.
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Strengths and limitations vary. Different models are good at different things.
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Economists have worked with many different models , each marked with one form or another of the competitive label.
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Software simulations generally support several different net-work models and may allow choices in factors such as transfer functions.
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The multiplicity of terms in current use - patient, consumer, customer - imply quite different models .
early
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There are remarkable similarities between the strengths model of case management, and early casework models.
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Those early models were not much more than modified pickup trucks and truly got some rugged use.
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Perhaps Maxham already knew that the Newleys' burglar alarm was one of the early Custodemus models .
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The first extension deals with the static nature of the earlier models .
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For instance, they created highly original relief panels to decorate the Sebasteion as well as other sculpture that adapted earlier models for different purposes.
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All four I am referring to have replaceable batteries - an improvement on earlier models .
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The Jerusalem, or Early Church model , began to predominate, and this meant being with people rather than apart from them.
mathematical
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Of course, aircraft were flying long before the development of powerful mathematical models .
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An associated mathematical model { 81 } can reproduce the periodic but not the chaotic regime.
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Linear, additive models are easier to work with than more complex mathematical models.
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This is a mathematical model designed to determine the optimal amount of inventory that a firm should carry.
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Laws do not require the construction of complex mathematical models .
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The mathematical models of the glycolytic pathway take the form of ordinary nonlinear differential equations.
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For example, suppose we have a mathematical model with n 100 for study of the vibration characteristics of an aircraft.
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All fifty name-face pairs were stored in a mathematical model .
new
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If power interests are threatened, then new models of conformity may merely provoke new forms of deviance.
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Together they form a coherent whole, a new model of government.
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But in the market at that time the ploy was far from enough to make the new models seem like bargains.
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General Motors plans several new investments this year, and most of them concern new model introductions, Wieland said.
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In an effort to cut costs, Nissan will reduce the breathtaking speed at which new models are rushed on to the market.
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The new model is global in scale, an interdependent network.
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She was surprised to find a treasure palace of colourful yarns and all types of machines including the newest models .
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What Valverde and Nadelstern are proposing is a new model for higher education-the remedial college.
simple
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This deliberately starts with some very simple models , which are then elaborated step-by-step.
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In the beginning, ecologists built simple mathematical models and simple laboratory microcosms.
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Neither in Feyerabend's image of theory proliferation nor in Kuhn's paradigm shifts is there any simple model of progress.
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A very simple model will illustrate the hypergame concept.
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We shall see that an important feature of both the monetarist approach and our simple model is the so-called augmented Phillips curve.
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The policy conclusions drawn from the simpler model will also still follow.
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None of the major implications derived from the simple model would be affected by the introduction of these mechanisms.
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A second simple mechanical model can be constructed from the ideal elements by placing a spring and dashpot in parallel.
theoretical
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They argue for the development of theoretical models , upon which hypothesis testing can be carried out.
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The general theoretical model , in a very simplified form, is shown in Figure 2.
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This analysis is extended by the examination of theoretical models of buying behaviour, and is illustrated by a major case study.
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The discipline became dominated by two new theoretical models: first a functionalist theory of synchronic adaptation, and later structuralism.
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Lattice enthalpies can also be calculated using a theoretical model .
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There is no clear theoretical model to explain the relationship between motivation, job satisfaction and performance.
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A second approach is to use some theoretical model to calculate effective atomic charges.
■ NOUN
computer
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Consultants Travers' Morgan appear to have used a 1000 link computer model in the analysis for Serpell.
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Barnston reviewed many computer models developed over the years to forecast El Nino events.
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The resultant computer models are used in oil field development.
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Indeed, some of the largest institutional money managers catering to wealthy individual investors advertise tax-related investment strategies based on computer models .
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To investigate further the link between planning and language a computer model will be implemented.
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Of 13 computer models , eight anticipated moderate warming; two, weak warming; and three, no warming.
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Competing against time and against one an-other, they tweaked and massaged the raw seismic data with complex computer models .
fashion
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He got hitched fifteen years ago to some fashion model .
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He looks like a fashion model , a clubland vamp or the boy next door.
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Yet out of uniform she looked like a fashion model .
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Film stars and fashion models became more slender because their angles photographed better on screen and in magazines.
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Although she may have many other fine qualities, she is clearly not an international fashion model .
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Do women really want to look like fashion models ?
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Masha, 20, is training to be a fashion model in St Petersburg.
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Two self-employed fashion models , both in their early 20s, also are charged.
process
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A quite different method of evaluation is to construct a process model which seeks to relate input to output.
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You may however only install one process model at a time.
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Option 7.3.0 - Process Modelling Operations provides an index page to the process model options available via the user image.
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Option 7.3.1 - Install/Deinstall Process Models enables users with process model operations privilege to install and deinstall process models.
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This is user definable and determines which process model the module is to follow.
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These are the items which move through a lifecycle ie. are acted upon by a process model .
role
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Where are the black role models for them to follow?
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They want the women to be a sort of role model for them, out there conquering and achieving.
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The managers soon discovered their management responsibilities as role models .
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He wasn't evil enough to be a role model to us.
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Maybe you'd know how to act if you had some more positive role models and some real heroes in your life.
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Doesn't she know, I go on, that she used to be a role model ?
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But most men do not choose their fathers as role models as they move away from their families and into the world.
scale
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This was approximately one fifth full size, but was a working mock-up rather than a true scale model .
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And yet, that lifetime was a kind of scale model for what followed.
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Seven of their 1:20 scale models have been chosen for exhibition and two have been combined to provide the full-scale installation.
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A section on the skyscraper with amazing scale models shows the growth and diversity in this monumental building style.
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A method of reconstruction which incorporates some of the advantages of both physical reconstruction and reconstruction drawings is the scale model .
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The show features original architectural drawings, photos, scale models and videos.
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It is a one-fifth scale model of Endeavour, built using traditional methods, but also allowing for modern safety requirements.
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A fab yellow scale model of a woman playing a guitar!
■ VERB
based
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However, the Kent model is firmly based on a model of long-term and not short-term care.
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Indeed, some of the largest institutional money managers catering to wealthy individual investors advertise tax-related investment strategies based on computer models .
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The assessment was based on Neuman's model , which examines the stresses that impinge on an individual's equilibrium.
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At Hubbard Woods, as at Fratney Street, the entire language arts curriculum is based on the whole-language model .
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Planning individualised nursing care based on nursing models and the nursing process.
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To make a difference, the therapy could not be one based on the models that were generally in use today.
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The suggestions that follow are based on models that are widely used in management development and leadership training.
build
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In recent years considerable research has been undertaken to build computer models of asset performance and returns and their correlation with liabilities.
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Each of these was built along the Babylonian model , as a self-governing fragment of the fallen Judean kingdom.
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At the moment he is doing mathematical modelling with the aim of building an experimental model of a solar-powered desalination plant.
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A winner was to have been picked and given enough money to build the first model .
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My aim was always to build working models that I could control.
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For weeks before Obon, each community builds its own large model of a sailing schooner.
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The support can work the other way; physiological knowledge can help us to build models .
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He played Dungeons and Dragons and spent hours building model airplanes.
construct
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A quite different method of evaluation is to construct a process model which seeks to relate input to output.
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Throughout, the emphasis is on constructing multiple alternative models , which can be explored and tested against each other.
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Copying also includes the use of one image to make another, like constructing a model from some one else's drawing.
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They constructed a circular model , where both parties in a conversation are shown as having virtually the same functions.
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The researcher has constructed computer models which predict tax and benefit entitlement under the present system, and after any possible reforms.
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However, a problem arose when one tried to use such theories to construct a model of the atom.
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Rawls constructs his model soas to argue for the primacy of an equality of needs.
develop
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The research is focused on developing a suitable model of an export marketing system for Northern Ireland's seed potatoes.
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Organic union is a dynamic, developing model .
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Lacey, for instance, develops a model of socialisation based on a modification of Becker's concept of social strategy.
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But as Table 2-1 shows, the adoption of free-market develop-ment models has raised their average growth rates.
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Just as an accountant might use a financial model , the analyst can develop an entity model.
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Case studies are analysed, and teams are then set to develop their own models of teamwork.
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In these circumstances he is considered to have developed a model which does not bridge the gap between reality and his aspirations.
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Nozick develops a model which enables him to make primary a principle with respect to entitlement.
provide
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It is suggested that the Commissioner would provide a good model for the establishment of similar posts in other areas of dispute.
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To whom would my deeds provide a model of behavior?
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Yesterday's debate about electoral reform could provide the model .
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The adsorption on such well defined surfaces provides excellent models for more complicated practical catalysts.
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Accompanying listening tapes provide models for exceptionally thorough work on pronunciation, stress, and intonation.
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The Belfield Reading Project has attracted considerable interest and has provided a model for many schools in this country and abroad.
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It provides a visual model of the effects of a small number of control factors acting in a field or potential.
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The independent sector provides some models and much experience for any new initiatives at grassroots level.
serve
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The project serves as a model of organization for temporeros elsewhere.
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Zajedno leaders are hoping this will serve as a model .
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This in itself raises issues of how the information infrastructure can best serve two models at once.
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This indeed served as a model for later national reactions and triumphs.
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This is reflected in the religion, which in turn serves as the model for traditional Hindu society.
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It will serve as the model for all future coaching contracts, so Pete is taking his time.
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It has been reproduced in millions and has served as the model for metro maps all over the world.
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This will serve as a model of an integrated economy.
use
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In workshops, learners should be encouraged to use the models effectively.
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In one apocryphal story that circulated on trading floors years ago, Black once tried to execute several trades using his model .
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This has all the facilities mentioned above, and in addition uses a medical model of the treatment of rape.
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Recent court decisions have ruled that using all-white models in real estate ads sends a discriminatory message to other races.
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This requirement alone would preclude most individual investors from using such models .
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The Pageant of the Masters uses live models to re- create notable paintings, sculptures and decorative art.
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Anaximander could have used the model of reparation of injustice to explain a large number of phenomena.
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Although the prototype currently simulates these activities, actual airline operations will be used in production models .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
conform to a pattern/model/ideal etc
entry level product/model/computer etc
working model
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Behind him on a finely carved desk was a gleaming working model of the St Petersburg-Cannes Express constructed in pearls and amethysts.
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For 300 years or more our science has omitted any human attributes that may impinge upon or impede its mechanistic working model.
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My aim was always to build working models that I could control.
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Simulation techniques have been developed to allow scientists and planners to build working models of the systems which they are studying.
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The Base was a closed system, like a tiny working model of Earth itself, recycling all the chemicals of life.
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When I was about four years of age, he made a working model roundabout with galloping horses.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"What make is the car?" "It's a Ford." "And what model ?" "An Escort 1.8L."
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As children build models they learn about design and construction.
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Civil society is a classical economist's model of the free market.
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Ford Motor Co. will offer new features and new models this year.
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The 1957 photo shows him holding a scale model of an ocean liner he built entirely by hand.
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There was a shelf in his bedroom full of model planes.
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We also have a deluxe model for $125.
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We produce a range of different computers, but this is our most popular model .
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White's team made a model of the new ballpark to show the public.
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Darwin himself saw disease as a model of change.
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Do women really want to look like fashion models?
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Full client participation is essential to ensure accuracy when compiling the information model .
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Page three models and married rubber fetishists, with a slave on the side, flickered before our very astonished eyes.
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Seven of their 1:20 scale models have been chosen for exhibition and two have been combined to provide the full-scale installation.
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The example of the development of today's plate tectonic model of the Earth follows this pattern.
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The wealthy girl had every model of Ginny doll and steamer trunks full of clothes for them.
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Two more models are going up by Wilshire Homes of Austin.
II. adjective
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■ NOUN
aircraft
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The sum was raised at a model aircraft flying display that was all but washed out through appalling weather.
car
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A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
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I built model cars when I was younger.
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Andrew has been prompted to make a model car like his dad's.
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Genghis, assembled out of model car parts, weighed only 3. 6 pounds.
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Corgi sent a full range of their model cars , including Rolls Royces and Porsches.
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I would suspect that it's a model car .
city
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It was his idea that it would become a model city at an initial cost of £100,000.
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The model cities program fell on hard times soon after it began.
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The model cities distribution of funds was 40 percent, 50 percent, and 10 percent, respectively.
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Houston did participate in the model cities program, however.
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As part of the citizen participation requirements, councils had been set up in four model cities and twelve antipoverty target neighborhoods.
farm
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There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.
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A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd's size was never more than 100.
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The Economic Societies encouraged local industries, set up model farms , and sponsored new crops.
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Before applying the impact of support charges, his model farm produced a farm gross margin of £101,000 under farm income-optimising calculations.
helicopter
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On very early model helicopters this was probably the only method which stood a any chance of success, but only just!
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The model helicopter pilot is not alone in suffering from this problem.
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Now it's up to you Only a few years ago it was a considerable achievement to fly a model helicopter at all.
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A model helicopter behaves in exactly the same way.
number
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I don't know the model number but it's the number one that they make - retails for about £850.
railway
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And what's the Ghost Train but a model railway set of which one becomes a passenger?
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I used to spend hours watching a model railway club layout in Crouch End, near Highgate.
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I have never used this model railway , but I saw which way he went.
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The young visitors to the museum next Sunday will also be entertained with a model railway and sideshows.
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The Lucas boys kept their model railway in the house and their cries penetrated the professor's study disturbingly.
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It popped up in a recent Capes, Dunn sale of toys, teddy bears, model railways etal and made £190.
student
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He is in other words a model student though not necessarily a good one.
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Xavier Hicks, model student , was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
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Unlike Aung San and Sukarno he was a model student , excelling despite his marginal position.
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Two other girls were model students .
train
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Some people like model trains or football.
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It's a model train with a price tag that puts it in a league of its own.
village
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A short drive takes you to a monkey sanctuary, model village or miniature stream railway and lots more.
wife
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In all she was a model wife , and earned the esteem of everyone in the town.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
conform to a pattern/model/ideal etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Chris always got to work early and left late - the model employee.
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Karen was a model student: hardworking, intelligent and enthusiastic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
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After his death the Henderson family bought the estate and built model cottages designed by Ernest George and Peto in the village.
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I built model cars when I was younger.
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It was his idea that it would become a model city at an initial cost of £100,000.
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Planning Guidance on Architects Advisory panels for panel members and panel users was prepared together with model terms of reference.
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There, the model home styles are named after lakes, springs and, more recently, famous golf courses.
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Two other girls were model students.
III. verb
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■ ADVERB
closely
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Process rights are modelled closely upon those of ordinary courts, and any balancing is undertaken within this context.
■ VERB
attempt
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It attempts to model operational interactions between company functions in one way that is logically sound.
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They consist of processing elements, or units, that attempt to model some of the properties of neurons.
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Providing a mechanism for other influences attempts to model the fact that real neurons are affected by factors other than inputs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
entry level product/model/computer etc
working model
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Behind him on a finely carved desk was a gleaming working model of the St Petersburg-Cannes Express constructed in pearls and amethysts.
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For 300 years or more our science has omitted any human attributes that may impinge upon or impede its mechanistic working model.
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My aim was always to build working models that I could control.
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Simulation techniques have been developed to allow scientists and planners to build working models of the systems which they are studying.
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The Base was a closed system, like a tiny working model of Earth itself, recycling all the chemicals of life.
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When I was about four years of age, he made a working model roundabout with galloping horses.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Here we have a Kenar T-shirt modeled by Linda Evangelista.
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She made a living modeling for art classes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the tee-shirts were modelled by the pupils during the school's fashion show organised by the Parent Teachers Association.
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I modelled them on the shape of your abdomen when you strode out of the sea last month.
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Most of the decor in this part of the house was modelled after Hollywood's idea of elaborate period furnishings.
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She also attended a kindergarten school where she first demonstrated her talent for modelling with clay.