MODEL


Meaning of MODEL in English

(~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

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 ~

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