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model(1) (iou)

model noun & adjective. L16.
[French modelle (now modele) from Italian modello from Proto-Romance alt. of Latin MODULUS.]
A. noun.
I. Representation of structure.
An architect's set of designs for a projected building; a similar set of drawings representing the proportions and arrangement of an existing building. Also, a plan of a town, Garden, etc. L16-E18.
Shakespeare 2 Henry IV When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model.
b. A summary, an abstract. E17-M18.
a. fig. A person or thing resembling another, esp. on a smaller scale. Now dial. exc. in the model of, the very model of. L16.
S. Patrick These quiet places are..little models of Heaven.
b. A three-dimensional representation of an existing person or thing or projected structure, showing the proportions and arrangement of its component parts. E17.
working model: constructed to imitate the movements of the machine which it represents.
L. Durrell He had a model of the perfect woman built in rubber. T. Pynchon Some dainty pasteboard model, a city-planner's city, perfectly detailed.
c. An archetypal image or pattern. M18.
T. Reid Every work of Art has its model framed in the imagination.
d. Dentistry. A cast of the teeth or oral cavity, used to construct dental appliances. M19.
e. A simplified description of a system, process, etc., put forward as a basis for theoretical or empirical understanding; a conceptual or mental representation of something. E20.
Rutherford model: see RUTHERFORD 1.
Scientific American A model designed to forecast next week's weather ignores these variables.
f. Math. A set of entities that satisfies all the formulae of a given formal or axiomatic system. M20.
A mould; something that envelops closely. rare (Shakes.). Only in L16.
Shakespeare Henry V O England! model to thy inward greatness.
A small portrait; (by confusion) a medallion. E-M17.
An object or figure in clay, wax, etc., for reproduction in a more durable material. Formerly also, a sketch for a painting. L17.
South African Panorama Mr Bhana creates these images by first making a clay model.
A plasterer's tool for moulding a cornice, having a pattern in profile which is impressed on the plaster by working the tool backwards and forwards. E19.
II. Type of design.
The design, pattern, or structural type of a material or immaterial thing. L16.
New Model: see NEW adjective.
F. Brooke This Town is..built very stately at the Italian model. J. R. Green The new faith..borrowed from Calvin its model of Church government.
b. A garment by a particular designer, of a particular season, etc.; a copy of such a garment. L19.
Times The Valentino collection is untypically small...Strikes have dogged the production of the models.
c. A motor vehicle etc. of a particular design or produced in a specified year; each of a series of varying designs of the same type of object. E20.
Model T an early model of car produced by the American Ford Company; fig. a person who or thing which is outmoded, mass-produced, etc.
J. Grenfell They got a new car. Well, it's not new, 1944 model. Practical Motorist Sales of Uno and Panda models rose.
Scale of construction; allotted measure; the measure of a person's ability or capacity. Only in 17.
H. Hibbert Shall any reduce..the thoughts and wayes of God to their narrow and straitned model?
The curvature of the surface of a violin etc. M19.
III. An object of imitation.
A person or work proposed or adopted for imitation; an exemplar. M17.
C. Achebe A budding dictator might choose models far worse than the English gentleman of leisure.
b. Biology. An animal or plant to which another bears a mimetic resemblance. L19.
A person employed to pose for an artist, sculptor, photographer, etc. Also, an actual person, place, etc., on which a fictional character, location, etc., is based. L17.
W. S. Maugham He could not afford a model but painted still life. P. Auster Alexander Selkirk (thought by some to be the model for Robinson Crusoe).
b. A person employed to display clothes by wearing them. E20.
D. G. Phillips The sleek tight-fitting trying-on robe of the professional model. G. Black He looked like a male model..for expensive men's knitwear.
c. euphem. A prostitute. M20.
An exemplary person or thing; a perfect exemplar of some excellence. Also, a representative specimen of some quality etc. L18.
E. Kuzwayo She was a perfect model of womanhood. C. Tomalin Gilbert Cannon, fair-haired, handsome, pipe-smoking,..the very model of the successful young Georgian man of letters.
a. = model dwelling below. Usu. in pl. colloq. L19.
b. = model lodging-house below. Scot. colloq. L19.
Comb.: model-drawing (the branch of study that deals with) drawing in perspective from solid figures; model-room a room for the storage or exhibition of models of machinery etc.; model theory the branch of mathematics that deals with the construction and properties of models of formal systems etc.
b. attrib. or as adjective.
Serving as an example; exemplary, ideally perfect. M19.
model dwelling any of a set of (esp.) 19th-cent. working men's flats, supposedly offering unusually comfortable and healthy accommodation at low rents. model lodging-house (now Scot.) a large lodging-house or hostel, nominally of superior standards.
R. Lardner A model young man, sober, industrious and 'solid'. J. Irving Bees are a model society, a lesson in teamwork!
Designating a small-scale model of the (kind of) object specified. E20.
Arnold Bennett He sailed model yachts for us. E. Nesbit Among his presents he had a model engine.
modelize verb trans. frame or construct according to a model; give a particular shape to; organize: L16-E19.

queer bashing (oh)

n [U] informal
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