modelling: significado e definições

A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail another, often larger object.

A preliminary work or construction that serves as a plan from which a final product is to be made: a clay model ready for casting. Such a work or construction used in testing or perfecting a final product: a test model of a solar-powered vehicle.

A schematic description or representation of something, especially a system or phenomenon, that accounts for its properties and is used to study its characteristics: a model of generative grammar; a model of an atom; an economic model.

A style or design of an item: My car is last year's model.

One serving as an example to be imitated or compared: a model of decorum. See Synonyms at ideal.

One that serves as the subject for an artist, especially a person employed to pose for a painter, sculptor, or photographer. One that serves as the basis for a fictional character or place.

A person employed to display merchandise, such as clothing or cosmetics.

Zoology An animal whose appearance is copied by a mimic.

Being, serving as, or used as a model.

Worthy of imitation: a model child.

To make or construct a descriptive or representational model of: computer programs that model climate change.

To plan, construct, or fashion in imitation of a model: modeled his legal career after that of his mentor.

To make by shaping a plastic substance: modeled a bust from clay. To form (clay, for example) into a shape.

To display by wearing or posing in: model clothes.

In painting, drawing, and photography, to give a three-dimensional appearance to, as by shading or highlighting.

Psychology To exhibit (a behavior) in such a way as to promote the establishment of similar patterns of behavior in another: The therapist modeled socially appropriate conversation. To repeat (a behavior observed in another): The child was modeling her mother's nurturing behavior.

To make a model.

To work or serve as a model, as in wearing clothes for display or serving as the subject of an artist.