"model" meaning in All languages combined

See model on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmɒdl̩/ [UK], /ˈmɑdl̩/ [US] Audio: en-us-model.ogg [US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-model.wav [UK] Forms: model [singular], models [plural]
Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A model is a something that is made to look or act like something else, usually being smaller or simpler than the original.
    Sense id: simple-model-en-noun-hVC1u1bJ
  2. A model is an example of something, a goal, or a way to do something.
    Sense id: simple-model-en-noun-RoSXJPFE
  3. A model is a person who puts on clothes, glasses, jewelery, etc. to show them at shows and in photographs or who poses for paintings or sculptures.
    Sense id: simple-model-en-noun-C4jMWUmk
  4. A model is a kind or design of car or other machine.
    Sense id: simple-model-en-noun-usXopgb7

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈmɒdl̩/ [UK], /ˈmɑdl̩/ [US] Audio: en-us-model.ogg [US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-model.wav [UK] Forms: modeled [past], modeled [past, participle], modeling [present, participle], model [canonical], models [third-person, singular], modelled [past], modelled [past, participle], modelling [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb}} [POS TABLE], {{verb|model|l}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you model clothes, jewelery, etc., you wear them to show them at shows and in photographs.
    Sense id: simple-model-en-verb-KECYJ1rN
  2. If you model an action, you show how it is done.
    Sense id: simple-model-en-verb-Oq2fEM2K
  3. If you model x on y, you try to make x like y.
    Sense id: simple-model-en-verb-JlfnXq1-
  4. If you model something, you make a smaller, simpler copy of it.
    Sense id: simple-model-en-verb-Sl5nVGIh
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          "text": "Scientists have developed a theoretical model of the planet's interior that describes one possibility."
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