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Mod·el n.
1. A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size; as, a
In charts, in maps, and eke in models made. --Gascoigne.
I had my father's signet in my purse,
Which was the model of that Danish seal. --Shak.
You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished. --Addison.
2. 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; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.
[The application for a patent] must be accompanied by a full description of the invention, with drawings and a model where the case admits of it. --Am. Cyc.
When we mean to build
We first survey the plot, then draw the model. --Shak.
3. Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.
4. That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little, contracted model. --South.
5. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
Thou seest thy wretched brother die,
Who was the model of thy father's life. --Shak.
6. A person who poses as a pattern for an artist; as, the artist used his daughter as a model for an Indian maiden.
A professional model. --H. James.
Working model, a model of a machine which can do on a small scale the work which the machine itself does, or is expected to do.