model
/ˈmɑ.dl̩/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.13 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who wears and showcases clothing, accessories, or cosmetics to promote or display them to an audience.
noun
A person, usually attractive, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.
noun
A representation of a physical object.
noun
A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
noun
A set of parameters trained on data to perform artificial intelligence tasks such as prediction, classification, or generation.
Example Sentences
- "Leonardo da Vinci chose a 15th century criminal as a model for Judas in his painting The Last Supper."
- "The supersize model displayed the latest summer shorts fashion, tactfully representing similarly overweight teenagers."
- "My mother was a hand model when she was young."
- "The boy played with a model of a World War II fighter plane."
- "The biology teacher passed a large plastic model of the atomic structure of DNA around the classroom."
- "I had my father’s signet in my purse, / Which was the model of that Danish seal."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Late Latin modulusder. Vulgar Latin *modellus Old Italian modellobor. Middle French modellebor. English model From Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus (“measure, standard”), diminutive of modus (“measure”); see mode, and compare module, modulus, mould, mold.
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- American English: /ˈmɑ.dl̩/
- British English: /ˈmɒd.l̩/
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(t-flapping) mottle