modell

Noun

model (plural models)

1. A person who poses as a subject or visual reference for an artist.
   • Leonardo da Vinci chose a 15th century criminal as a model for Judas in his painting The Last Supper.
2. A person who wears and showcases clothing, accessories, or cosmetics to promote or display them to an audience.
   • The supersize model displayed the latest summer shorts fashion, tactfully representing similarly overweight teenagers.
3. 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.
4. (adult entertainment) A person who performs or poses in erotic or pornographic media.
5. A representation of a physical object.
   • The boy played with a model of a World War II fighter plane.
6. A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
   • The computer weather model did not correctly predict the path of the hurricane.

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