Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail another, often larger object.
- noun A preliminary work or construction that serves as a plan from which a final product is to be made.
- noun Such a work or construction used in testing or perfecting a final product.
- noun A schematic description or representation of something, especially a system or phenomenon, that accounts for its properties and is used to study its characteristics.
- noun A style or design of an item.
- noun One serving as an example to be imitated or compared: synonym: ideal.
- noun One that serves as the subject for an artist, especially a person employed to pose for a painter, sculptor, or photographer.
- noun One that serves as the basis for a fictional character or place.
- noun A person employed to display merchandise, such as clothing or cosmetics.
- noun Zoology An animal whose appearance is copied by a mimic.
- adjective Being, serving as, or used as a model.
- adjective Worthy of imitation.
- intransitive verb To make or construct a descriptive or representational model of.
- intransitive verb To plan, construct, or fashion in imitation of a model.
- intransitive verb To make by shaping a plastic substance.
- intransitive verb To form (clay, for example) into a shape.
- intransitive verb To display by wearing or posing in.
- intransitive verb In painting, drawing, and photography, to give a three-dimensional appearance to, as by shading or highlighting.
- intransitive verb To make a model.
- intransitive verb To work or serve as a model, as in wearing clothes for display or serving as the subject of an artist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form or plan according to a model; make conformable to a pattern or type; construct or arrange in a set manner.
- To mold or shape on or as on a model; give form to by any means: as, to
model a hat on a block; to model a ship; specifically, in drawing or painting, to give an appearance of natural relief to. - To make a model of; execute a copy or representation of; imitate in form: as, to
model a figure in wax. - To make a model or models; especially, in the fine arts, to form a work of some plastic material: as, to
model in wax. - To take the form of a model; assume a typical or natural appearance, or, in a drawing or painting, an appearance of natural relief.
- noun See the extract.
- noun A standard for imitation or comparison; anything that serves or may serve as a pattern or type; that with which something else is made to agree in form or character, or which is regarded as a fitting exemplar.
- noun Specifically
- noun A detailed pattern of a thing to be made; a representation, generally in miniature, of the parts, proportions, and other details to be copied in a complete production.
- noun In the fine arts:
- noun A living person who serves a painter or sculptor as the type of a figure he is painting or modeling, or poses for that purpose during the execution of the work; also, one who poses before a class to serve as an object to be drawn or painted.
- noun In sculpture, also, an image in clay or plaster intended to be reproduced in stone or metal.
- noun A canon, such as the sculptural canons of Polycletus and Lysippus, or the fancied rigid canons for the human form in ancient Egypt. See
doryphorus and Lysippan. - noun A plan or mode of formation or constitution; type shown or manifested; typical form, style or method: as, to build a house on the model of a Greek temple; to form one's style on the model of Addison.
- noun A mechanical imitation or copy of an object, generally on a miniature scale, designed to show its formation: as, a model of Jerusalem or of Cologne cathedral; a model of the human body.
- noun Hence An exact reproduction; a facsimile.
- noun An abbreviated or brief form. See
module , 1. - Serving as a model.
- Worthy to serve as a model or exemplar; exemplary: as, a model husband.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern
- intransitive verb (Fine Arts) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms.
- 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
- noun A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
- 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
- noun Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation
- noun That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Slide 9: Present model vs. IEDM'07 model * Previous model* based on Green function approach for NC FinFLASH tailored for SOI vs. Body-Tied Present model does not need any Green function solution lighter computationally 2007 Present model implements tunneling through high-k stacks * L. Perniola et al.,
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$model tells the event triggers to listen to events on the associated model.
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Thankfully, the term model now applies to a more diverse profile of professional women ranging from stick thin to curvy and plus-size, blond with Nordic blue eyes, to chocolate brown with thick, curly hair, and they are working alone and alongside one another.
Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005
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Thankfully, the term model now applies to a more diverse profile of professional women ranging from stick thin to curvy and plus-size, blond with Nordic blue eyes, to chocolate brown with thick, curly hair, and they are working alone and alongside one another.
Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005
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Thankfully, the term model now applies to a more diverse profile of professional women ranging from stick thin to curvy and plus-size, blond with Nordic blue eyes, to chocolate brown with thick, curly hair, and they are working alone and alongside one another.
Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005
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The supply chain model is all about hardware excellence.
How IT's Role Will Change Ed Sperling 2010
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This win-win model is crucial to ensure the success of this initiative.
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The supply chain model is all about hardware excellence.
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Here's a very nice train model from the movie "Back to the Future."
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Here's a very nice train model from the movie "Back to the Future."
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A foundation model is anymodel that is trained on broad data (generally using self-supervision at scale) that can be adapted(e.g., fine-tuned) to a wide range of downstream tasks; current examples include BERT [Devlin et al .2019], GPT-3 [Brown et al . 2020], and CLIP [Radford et al . 2021].
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Many of these models are described as foundation models. This term, coined in 2021 by researchers at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, broadly describes AI models that acquire the capacity to perform well across a range of different problems through a process of ‘pretraining’ on enormous unannotated datasets.
Foundation models build on ChatGPT tech to learn the fundamental language of biology - Nature Biotechnology Michael Eisenstein 2024
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Wang is one of a growing number of scientists who see ‘foundation models’ as a powerful solution. The term describes AI algorithms that go through a pre-training process in which they are fed tremendous amounts of unlabelled data.
Self-driving laboratories, advanced immunotherapies and five more technologies to watch in 2025 Michael Eisenstein 2025
skipvia commented on the word model
In my college life drawing classes, our instructor always asked the models to derobe. I suspect he meant disrobe. See Free Association.
February 4, 2008