(~s, ~ling, ~led)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
Note: in AM, use '~ing', '~ed'
1.
A ~ of an object is a physical representation that shows what it looks like or how it works. The ~ is often smaller than the object it represents.
...an architect’s ~ of a wooden house.
...a working scale ~ of the whole Bay Area...
I made a ~ out of paper and glue.
N-COUNT: oft N of n
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Model is also an adjective.
I had made a ~ aeroplane.
...a ~ railway.
ADJ: ADJ n
2.
A ~ is a system that is being used and that people might want to copy in order to achieve similar results. (FORMAL)
He wants companies to follow the European ~ of social responsibility.
N-COUNT: with supp
3.
A ~ of a system or process is a theoretical description that can help you understand how the system or process works, or how it might work. (TECHNICAL or FORMAL)
Darwin eventually put forward a ~ of biological evolution...
N-COUNT: usu with supp
4.
If someone such as a scientist ~s a system or process, they make an accurate theoretical description of it in order to understand or explain how it works. (TECHNICAL or FORMAL)
...the mathematics needed to ~ a nonlinear system like an atmosphere.
VERB: V n
5.
If you say that someone or something is a ~ of a particular quality, you are showing approval of them because they have that quality to a large degree.
A ~ of good manners, he has conquered any inward fury...
N-COUNT: N of n approval
6.
You use ~ to express approval of someone when you think that they perform their role or duties extremely well.
As a girl she had been a ~ pupil...
= exemplary
ADJ: ADJ n approval
7.
If one thing is ~led on another, the first thing is made so that it is like the second thing in some way.
The quota system was ~led on those operated in America and continental Europe...
She asked the author if she had ~led her hero on anybody in particular.
VERB: be V-ed on/after n, V n on/after n
8.
If you ~ yourself on someone, you copy the way that they do things, because you admire them and want to be like them.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong in ~ling yourself on an older woman...
They will tend to ~ their behaviour on the teacher’s behaviour.
VERB: V pron-refl on/after n, V n on/after n
9.
A particular ~ of a machine is a particular version of it.
To keep the cost down, opt for a basic ~...
The ~ number is 1870/285.
N-COUNT: usu supp N
10.
An artist’s ~ is a person who stays still in a particular position so that the artist can make a picture or sculpture of them.
N-COUNT
11.
If someone ~s for an artist, they stay still in a particular position so that the artist can make a picture or sculpture of them.
Tullio has been ~ling for Sandra for eleven years.
VERB: V for n, also V
12.
A fashion ~ is a person whose job is to display clothes by wearing them.
...Paris’s top photographic fashion ~.
N-COUNT
13.
If someone ~s clothes, they display them by wearing them.
I wasn’t here to ~ clothes...
She began ~ling in Paris aged 15.
VERB: V n, V
~ling
She was being offered a ~ling contract.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N n
14.
If you ~ shapes or figures, you make them out of a substance such as clay or wood.
There she began to ~ in clay...
Sometimes she carved wood and sometimes stone; sometimes she ~led clay...
VERB: V, V n
15.
see also role ~