working modeln.1
/ˌwəːkɪŋ ˈmɒdl/, U.S. /ˌwərkɪŋ ˈmɑd(ə)l/ A model of a machine, ship, aircraft, etc., so constructed as to imitate the movements or mechanisms of the thing that it represents.
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working model1739
1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 14 I had the Honour of explaining twice, upon working models before the Honourable Board; a short Account.
1751 C. Labelye Descr. Westm. Bridge 71 Explaining before them, upon a working Model, the Method I proposed.
1770 J. Ferguson Introd. Electr. 134 A working model of the great crane at Bristol.
1822 C. F. Partington Hist. & Descr. Acct. Steam Engine i. 13 In the following year a working model of the above engine was submitted to the Royal Society.
1859 Newton's London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 9 115 Mr. J. A. Haswell exhibited a large working model of the new [railway] switch.
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 833/2 Mr. Brunel had completed a working model of certain machines for constructing..blocks.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Apr. 10/1 The exhibition will consist of manual training work, working models of aeroplanes, boats, etc.
1965 G. Jones Island of Apples ii. vii. 140 He could play the violin, and he earned a bit of money showing the working models of ships and engines he made, mostly out of odds and ends that nobody wanted.
2001 Independent 20 Sept. 11/7 The most that you will have to fear will be..making a working model of the London Eye out of loo rolls and paper clips.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
working modeln.2
/ˈwəːkɪŋ ˌmɒdl/, U.S. /ˈwərkɪŋ ˌmɑd(ə)l/ Chiefly Art.
A model used or intended as an aid to the execution of the final form of a sculpture or similar artefact; a maquette. Cf. model n. 4b.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > model or sketch
working model1844
maquette1880
modelletto1937
modello1937
1844 Athenaeum 3 Feb. 112/3 The daily papers announce that the Lords of the Admiralty have purchased the ‘working model’ from which the statue upon the column in Trafalgar-square was executed.
1850 Spectator 27 July 715/2 Edward Davis has executed a working model for the bronze statue of the Duke of Rutland.
1927 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 54/1 From a small working model, the sculptor first makes a full size ‘armature’, a weird skeleton with bones of lath or metal.
1966 H. Moore On Sculpture 247 The first maquette for the wood Interior Exterior Forms was produced in 1951, later the same year I made the working model (24½ in. high), which was cast into bronze.
2012 T. Johnson & D. J. Wood Techniques Compl. Denture Technol. v. 40 Secure the working model to the lower rim.
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