model

a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor

“the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos”

the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)

create a representation or model of

form in clay, wax, etc

“model a head with clay”

assume a posture as for artistic purposes

plan or create according to a model or models

a type of product

“his car was an old model”

display (clothes) as a mannequin

“model the latest fashion”

construct a model of

“model an airplane”

a representative form or pattern

a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

“the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems”

worthy of imitation

“model citizens”