model

model is a 5-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 25 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
2. noun. Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.
3. noun. Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.
4. noun. That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
5. noun. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
6. noun. A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.
7. adjective. Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
8. transitive verb. To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.
9. intransitive verb. To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
10. noun. the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)

    Synonyms: modeling, modelling

11. noun. representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)

    Synonyms: simulation

12. noun. a type of product

    "his car was an old model"

13. noun. a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

    "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"

    Synonyms: framework

14. noun. something to be imitated

    "an exemplar of success"

    "a model of clarity"

    Synonyms: example, exemplar

15. noun. a representative form or pattern

    "I profited from his example"

    Synonyms: example

16. noun. a woman who wears clothes to display fashions

    "she was too fat to be a mannequin"

    Synonyms: manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin

17. noun. a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor

    "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos"

    Synonyms: poser

18. noun. someone worthy of imitation

    "every child needs a role model"

19. verb. form in clay, wax, etc

    "model a head with clay"

    Synonyms: mold, mould

20. verb. construct a model of

    "model an airplane"

21. verb. create a representation or model of

    "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights"

    Synonyms: simulate

22. verb. plan or create according to a model or models

    Synonyms: pattern

23. verb. display (clothes) as a mannequin

    "model the latest fashion"

24. verb. assume a posture as for artistic purposes

    "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"

    Synonyms: pose, posture, sit

25. adjective. worthy of imitation

    "exemplary behavior"

    "model citizens"

    Synonyms: exemplary

Synonyms

modeling, modelling, simulation, framework, example, exemplar, manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, poser, mold, mould, simulate, pattern, pose, posture, sit, exemplary

Common word forms

models, modeled, modeler, modeling, modelize, modelled, modeller, modelling

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