Reference and Model

noun

• A remark that calls attention to something or someone.
  • usage: "she made frequent mention of her promotion"; "there was no mention of it"; "the speaker made several references to his wife"
  • synonyms: mention
• A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage.
  • usage: "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
  • synonyms: citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, mention, quotation
• An indicator that orients you generally.
  • usage: "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved"
  • synonyms: reference point, point of reference
• A book to which you can refer for authoritative facts.
  • usage: "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"
  • synonyms: reference book, reference work, book of facts
• A formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability.
  • usage: "requests for character references are all too often answered evasively"
  • synonyms: character, character reference
• The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to.
  • usage: "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"
  • synonyms: denotation, extension
• The act of referring or consulting.
  • usage: "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"
  • synonyms: consultation
• A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to.
  • usage: "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
  • synonyms: source
• Computer science. ( the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored)
  • synonyms: address, computer address
• The relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to.
  • usage: "he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes"

verb

• Refer to.
  • usage: "he referenced his colleagues' work"
  • synonyms: cite

• (n.) One who or that which, is referred to.
• (n.) The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court.
• (n.) Relation; regard; respect.
• (n.) The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision.
• (n.) Appeal.
• (n.) That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.
• (n.) A work or a passage in a work, to which one is referred.
• (n.) One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another.
• (n.) The act of referring or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.
• (n.) Any copy or resemblance, more or less exact.
• (n.) That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
• (n.) A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
• (v.i.) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
• (v.t.) To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.
• (a.) Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
• (n.) 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.

noun

• A hypothetical description of a complex entity or process.
  • usage: "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"
  • synonyms: theoretical account, framework
• A type of product.
  • usage: "his car was an old model"
• A person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor.
  • usage: "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos"
  • synonyms: poser
• Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale.
  • synonyms: simulation
• Something to be imitated.
  • usage: "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"
  • synonyms: exemplar, example, good example
• Someone worthy of imitation.
  • usage: "every child needs a role model"
  • synonyms: role model
• A representative form or pattern.
  • usage: "I profited from his example"
  • synonyms: example
• A woman who wears clothes to display fashions.
  • usage: "she was too fat to be a mannequin"
  • synonyms: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion model
• The act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale.
  • synonyms: modelling, modeling

verb

• Plan or create according to a model or models.
  • synonyms: pattern
• Form in clay, wax, etc.
  • usage: "model a head with clay"
  • synonyms: mold, mould
• Assume a posture as for artistic purposes.
  • usage: "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
  • synonyms: pose, sit, posture
• Display (clothes) as a mannequin.
  • usage: "model the latest fashion"
• Create a representation or model of.
  • usage: "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights"
  • synonyms: simulate
• Construct a model of.
  • usage: "model an airplane"
  • synonyms: mock up

adjective

• Worthy of imitation.
  • usage: "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens"
  • synonyms: exemplary

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