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M0362000 (mŏd′l)n.1. A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail another, often larger object.2. a. A preliminary work or construction that serves as a plan from which a final product is to be made: a clay model ready for casting.b. Such a work or construction used in testing or perfecting a final product: a test model of a solar-powered vehicle.3. A schematic description or representation of something, especially a system or phenomenon, that accounts for its properties and is used to study its characteristics: a model of generative grammar; a model of an atom; an economic model.4. A style or design of an item: My car is last year's model.5. One serving as an example to be imitated or compared: a model of decorum. See Synonyms at ideal.6. a. One that serves as the subject for an artist, especially a person employed to pose for a painter, sculptor, or photographer.b. One that serves as the basis for a fictional character or place.7. A person employed to display merchandise, such as clothing or cosmetics.8. Zoology An animal whose appearance is copied by a mimic.adj.1. Being, serving as, or used as a model.2. Worthy of imitation: a model child.v. mod·eled, mod·el·ing, mod·els also mod·elled or mod·el·ling v.tr.1. To make or construct a descriptive or representational model of: computer programs that model climate change.2. To plan, construct, or fashion in imitation of a model: modeled his legal career after that of his mentor.3. a. To make by shaping a plastic substance: modeled a bust from clay.b. To form (clay, for example) into a shape.4. To display by wearing or posing in: model clothes.5. In painting, drawing, and photography, to give a three-dimensional appearance to, as by shading or highlighting.6. Psychology a. To exhibit (a behavior) in such a way as to promote the establishment of similar patterns of behavior in another: The therapist modeled socially appropriate conversation.b. To repeat (a behavior observed in another): The child was modeling her mother's nurturing behavior.v.intr.1. To make a model.2. To work or serve as a model, as in wearing clothes for display or serving as the subject of an artist.Phrasal Verb: model (oneself) on (or after) To copy the example of (another); imitate.

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[French modèle, from Italian modello, diminutive of modo, form, from Latin modus, measure, standard; see med- in Indo-European roots.]

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modeler - a person who creates models modellercreator - a person who grows or makes or invents things