Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
- 5noun
Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
- 6noun
A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.
- 7adjective
Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
- 8transitive 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.
- 9intransitive verb
To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
- 10noun
the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
- 11noun
representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
Synonyms
- 12noun
a type of product
"his car was an old model"
- 13noun
a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
"the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"
Synonyms
- 14noun
something to be imitated
"an exemplar of success"
"a model of clarity"
- 15noun
a representative form or pattern
"I profited from his example"
Synonyms
- 16noun
a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
"she was too fat to be a mannequin"
- 17noun
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
- 18noun
someone worthy of imitation
"every child needs a role model"
- 19verb
form in clay, wax, etc
"model a head with clay"
- 20verb
construct a model of
"model an airplane"
- 21verb
create a representation or model of
"The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights"
Synonyms
- 22verb
plan or create according to a model or models
Synonyms
- 23verb
display (clothes) as a mannequin
"model the latest fashion"
- 24verb
assume a posture as for artistic purposes
"We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
- 25adjective
worthy of imitation
"exemplary behavior"
"model citizens"
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