10. model a simplified representation of a system or phenomenon, as in the sciences or economics, with any hypotheses required to describe the system or explain the phenomenon.
11. (adj.)model serving as an example or model: a model home.
12. model worthy to serve as a model; exemplary: a model student.
Etymology: (1565–75; < MF modelle < It modello < VL *modellus, dim. of L modulus (see module ))
Definition of 'Model'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)model, theoretical account, framework a hypotheticaldescription of a complexentity or process "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"
2. (noun)model a type of product "his car was an old model"
3. (noun)model, poser 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"
4. (noun)model, simulation representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
5. (noun)exemplar, example, model, good example something to be imitated "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"
3. (noun)Model something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a materialrepresentation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the claymodel of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine
4. (noun)Model 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
5. (noun)Model that by which a thing is to be measured; standard
6. (noun)Model any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact
8. (verb)Model 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. (verb)Model to make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax