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Modeling   /mˈɑdəlɪŋ/  /mˈɑdlɪŋ/   Listen
Modeling

noun
(Written also modelling)
1.
Sculpture produced by molding.  Synonyms: clay sculpture, mold, molding, mould, moulding.
2.
A preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied.  Synonyms: modelling, molding, moulding.
3.
The act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale).  Synonyms: model, modelling.






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"Modeling" Quotes from Famous Books



... would hurt her daughters' eyes, that working after dinner would redden their noses, and she convinced me that the hands never looked so white as when they did nothing. Instead therefore of finishing George's shirts, we now had them new-modeling their old gauzes, or flourishing upon catgut. The poor Miss Flamboroughs, their former gay companions, were cast off as mean acquaintance, and the whole conversation ran upon high life and high-lived company, with pictures, taste, Shakespeare, ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)--Great Britain and Ireland II • Various

... for, in addition to his regular studies, he demonstrated considerable skill in wood-carving and wax-modeling, and during this period won several prizes for poetical compositions in Spanish, which, while sometimes juvenile in form and following closely after Spanish models, reveal at times flashes of thought and turns of expression that show distinct originality; even in these early compositions ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... of clear mental pictures is stimulated by expression. "Expression is the test of the pupil's knowledge." Hence, the child should be required to reproduce what he has learned. He may do this by modeling, drawing, and oral and written description. These are placed in the order which should be followed in ...
— Home Geography For Primary Grades • C. C. Long

... "figure" in the grain to be suitable for carving. American walnut is best fitted for sharply cut shallow carving, as its fiber is caney. If it is used, the design should be one in which no fine modeling or detail is required, as this wood allows of ...
— Wood-Carving - Design and Workmanship • George Jack

... freehand very simple objects either in outline or mass, and proceeds through more advanced exercises in drawing from still life, to drawing and painting of landscape and the human figure. With the addition of supplementary studies, such as anatomy, perspective, modeling, composition, craft work, theory, history, etc., this would be, broadly speaking, the method followed in schools of art, where courses, occupying from two to four or five years, are given, intended primarily for those who expect to make some sort of ...
— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper


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