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
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