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say it: MAH-duhl
model is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process". It is pronounced /ˈmɑdəl/ — MAH-duhl. It carries 16 recorded senses.
a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
“the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems”
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”
representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
something to be imitated
“an exemplar of success”
“a model of clarity”
“he is the very model of a modern major general”
someone worthy of imitation
“every child needs a role model”
a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
“she was too fat to be a mannequin”
the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for model come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.