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Mobility (m�bĭlĭt�), n. [L. mobilitas: cf. F. mobilité.] 1. The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle. Sir T. Browne.
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2. The mob; the lower classes. [Humorous] Dryden.
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Mobilization (?), n. [F. mobilization.] The act of mobilizing.
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Mobilize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mobilized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mobilizing (?).] [F. mobiliser.] 1. To assemble and organize and make ready for use or action; as, to mobilize volunteers for the election campaign.
Syn. -- mobilise, marshal.
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2. Specifically: To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps; as, to mobilize the National Guard.
Syn. -- mobilise, militarize, militarise.
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Möbius strip (?), n. [From August F. Möbius, German mathematician.] A mathematical object, or a physical representation of it, which is a two-dimensional sheet with only one surface. It is constructed or visualized as a rectangle, one end of which is held fixed while the opposite end is twisted through a 180 degree angle and joined to the fixed end. It is a two-dimensional object that can only exist in a three-dimensional space.
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Moble (?), v. t. [From to wrap up.] To wrap the head of in a hood. [Obs.] Shak.
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Mobles (?), n. pl. See . [Obs.]
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Mobocracy (?), n. [Mob rabble + -cracy, as in democracy.] A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.
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It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy. Walpole.
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Mobocrat (?), n. One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint. Bayne.
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Mobocratic (?), a. Of, or relating to, a mobocracy.
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mocassin n. Variant spelling of .
Syn. -- moccasin, moccasins.
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moccasin (?), n. [An Indian word. Algonquin makisin.] [Sometimes written moccason.] 1. A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians.
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2. (Zoöl.) A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus syn. Agkistrodon piscivorus, also called cottonmouth and cottonmouth water moccasin) is usually found in or near water. Above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is brownish yellow, mottled with darker. The upland moccasin is Ancistrodon atrofuscus. They resemble rattlesnakes, but are without rattles.
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Coloq. Moccasin flower (Bot.), a species of lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule) found in North America. The lower petal is two inches long, and forms a rose-colored moccasin-shaped pouch. It grows in rich woods under coniferous trees.
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Moccasined (?), a. Covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins. “Moccasined feet.” Harper's Mag.
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Mocha (?), n. 1. A seaport town of Yemen, on the Red Sea, also spelled Mukha.
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2. A variety of coffee originally brought from Mocha.
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3. An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
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4. A flavoring made from an infusion of coffee or of a combination of coffee with chocolate or cocoa.
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5. A color of a deep chocolate brown.
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Coloq. Mocha stone (Min.), moss agate.
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Moche (?), n. [F.] A bale of raw silk.
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Moche (?), a. Much. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Mochel (?), a. & adv. Much. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Mochila (?), n. [Sp.] A large leather flap which covers the saddletree. [Western U.S.]
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Mock (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mocked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mocking.] [F. moquer, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. mocken to mumble, G. mucken, OSw. mucka.] 1. To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
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To see the life as lively mocked as ever
Still sleep mocked death. Shak.
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Mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shak.
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2. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
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Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. 1 Kings xviii. 27.
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Let not ambition mock their useful toil. Gray.
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3. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.
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Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judg. xvi. 13.
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He will not . . .
Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. Milton.
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Syn. -- To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See .
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Mock, v. i. To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
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When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? Job xi. 3.
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She had mocked at his proposal. Froude.
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Mock, n. 1. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
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Fools make a mock at sin. Prov. xiv. 9.
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2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] Crashaw.
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Mock, a. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
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That superior greatness and mock majesty. Spectator.
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Coloq. Mock bishop's weed (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places. -- Coloq. Mock heroic , burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. -- Coloq. Mock lead . See (a). -- Coloq. Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. -- Coloq. Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. Philadelphus coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless. -- Coloq. Mock sun . See . -- Coloq. Mock turtle soup , a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup. -- Coloq. Mock velvet , a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See .
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Mockable (?), a. Such as can be mocked. Shak.
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Mockado (?), n. A stuff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet. [Obs.]
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Our rich mockado doublet. Ford.
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Mockadour (?), n. See . [Obs.]
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Mockage (?), n. Mockery. [Obs.] Fuller.
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Mockbird (?), n. (Zoöl.) The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis).
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Mocker (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.
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2. A deceiver; an impostor.
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3. (Zoöl.) A mocking bird.
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mockernut, mocker nut n. 1. (Bot.), A smooth-barked North American hickory (Carya tomentosa) with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut.
Syn. -- mockernut hickory, black hickory, white-heart hickory, big-bud hickory, Carya tomentosa .
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2. The fruit of the mockernut{1}.
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Mockery (?), n.; pl. Mockeries (#). [F. moquerie.] 1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
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It is, as the air, invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak.
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Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law.
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And bear about the mockery of woe. Pope.
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2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.
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The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. Spenser.
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3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.
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The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery. 2 Macc. viii. 17.
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Mocking, a. Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.
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Coloq. Mocking thrush (Zoöl.), any species of the genus Harporhynchus, as the brown thrush (Harporhynchus rufus). -- Coloq. Mocking wren (Zoöl.), any American wren of the genus Thryothorus, esp. Thryothorus Ludovicianus.
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mockingbird, mocking bird n. (Zoöl.), A long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of North America (Mimus polyglottos), remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the outer tail feathers are partly white. Originally its range was confined mostly to the southern states, but by late 19th century it had migrated as far north as New York. The name is also applied to other members of thee same and related genera, found in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, such as the blue mockingbird of Mexico, Melanotis caerulescens.
Syn. -- mocker, Mimus polyglottos .
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Mockingly, adv. By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.
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Mockingstock (?), n. A butt of sport; an object of derision. [R.]
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Mockish, a. Mock; counterfeit; sham. [Obs.]
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Mockle (?), a. See .
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Moco (?), n. (Zoöl.) A South American rodent (Cavia rupestris), allied to the Guinea pig, but larger; -- called also rock cavy.
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Modal (?), a. [Cf. F. modal. See .] 1. Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. Glanvill.
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2. (Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought, such as the modes of possibility or obligation.
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3. (Gram.) Pertaining to or denoting mood.
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Modal (?) (Gram.), n. A modal auxiliary.
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modal auxiliary (?) (Gram.), n. Any one of the auxiliary verbs of English, such as can, may, will, shall, must, might, could, would, or should, which are used together with the infinitive form of another verb to express distinctions of mood{2}, such as uncertainty, possibility, command, emphasis, and obligation.
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Modalist, n. (Theol.) One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity. Eadie.
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Modality (?), n. [Cf. F. modalité.] 1. The quality or state of being modal.
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2. (Logic & Metaph.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.
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modal logic (?), n. A system of logic which studies how to combine propositions which include the concepts of necessity, possibility, and obligation.
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Modally (?), adv. In a modal manner.
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A compound proposition, the parts of which are united modally . . . by the particles “as” and “so.” Gibbs.
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Mode (mōd), n. [L. modus a measure, due or proper measure, bound, manner, form; akin to E. mete: cf. F. mode. See , and cf. , in grammar, .] 1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
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The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found. Jer. Taylor.
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A table richly spread in regal mode. Milton.
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2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
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The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode. Macaulay.
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3. Variety; gradation; degree. Pope.
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4. (Metaph.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.
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Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances. Locke.
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5. (Logic) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.
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6. (Gram.) Same as .
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7. (Mus.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.
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☞ In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognized.
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8. A kind of silk. See , n.
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9. (Gram.) the value of the variable in a frequency distribution or probability distribution, at which the probability or frequency has a maximum. The maximum may be local or global. Distributions with only one such maximum are called ; with two maxima, , and with more than two, .
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Syn. -- Method; manner. See .
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Model (?), n. [F. modèle, It. modello, fr. (assumed) L. modellus, fr. modulus a small measure, dim. of modus. See , and cf. .] 1. A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size; as, a 1/100 scale model of the B-52 bomber.
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In charts, in maps, and eke in models made. Gascoigne.
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I had my father's signet in my purse,
Which was the model of that Danish seal. Shak.
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You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished. Addison.
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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.
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[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.
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When we mean to build
We first survey the plot, then draw the model. Shak.
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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.
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4. That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
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He that despairs measures Providence by his own little, contracted model. South.
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5. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
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Thou seest thy wretched brother die,
Who was the model of thy father's life. Shak.
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6. A person who poses as a pattern for an artist; as, the artist used his daughter as a model for an Indian maiden.
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7. A person who is employed to wear clothing for the purpose of advertising or display, or who poses with a product for the same purpose; a mannequin{1}; as, a fashion model.
Syn. -- mannequin{1}.
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A professional model. H. James.
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8. A particular version or design of an object that is made in multiple versions; as, the 1993 model of the Honda Accord; the latest model of the HP laserjet printer. For many manufactured products, the model name is encoded as part of the Coloq. model number .
Syn. -- modification{2}.
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9. An abstract and often simplified conceptual representation of the workings of a system of objects in the real world, which often includes mathematical or logical objects and relations representing the objects and relations in the real-world system, and constructed for the purpose of explaining the workings of the system or predicting its behavior under hypothetical conditions; as, the administration's model of the United States economy predicts budget surpluses for the next fifteen years; different models of the universe assume different values for the cosmological constant; models of proton structure have grown progressively more complex in the past century.
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Coloq. 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.
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Model (?), a. Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
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Model, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Modeled (?) or Modelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Modeling or Modelling.] [Cf. F. modeler, It. modellare.] 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.
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Model, v. i. (Fine Arts) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
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modeled adj. resembling sculpture; as, her finely modeled features.
Syn. -- sculptural, sculptured, sculpturesque.
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Modeler (?), n. One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art. [Written also modeller.]
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Modeling, n. (Fine Arts) The act or art of making a model from which a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form. [Written also modelling.]
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Coloq. Modeling plane , a small plane for planing rounded objects. -- Coloq. Modeling wax , beeswax melted with a little Venice turpentine, or other resinous material, and tinted with coloring matter, usually red, -- used in modeling.
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Modelize (?), v. t. To model. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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modem (mōdĕm), n. [by shortening from modulator-demodulator.] An electronic device that converts electronic signals into sound waves, and sound waves into electronic signals, used to transmit information between computers by the use of ordinary telephone lines; also called modulator-demodulator; as, the latest modems can transmit data at 56,000 baud over a clear telephone line. The speed of transmission of information by a modem is usually measured in units of , equivalent to bits per second.
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Modena (?), n. [From Modena, in Italy.] A certain crimsonlike color. Good.
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Modenese (?), a. Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Modena; the people of Modena.
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Moder (?), n. [OE. See female parent.] 1. A mother. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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2. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed. [Obs.]
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Moder (?), v. t. To moderate. [Obs.]
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Moderable (?), a. [L. moderabilis.] Moderate; temperate. [Obs.]
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Moderance (?), n. Moderation. [Obs.] Caxton.
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Moderate (?), a. [L. moderatus, p. p. of moderate, moderati, to moderate, regulate, control, fr. modus measure. See .] Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: (a) Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. (b) Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors. (c) Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist; a moderate Republican.
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A number of moderate members managed . . . to obtain a majority in a thin house. Swift.
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(d) Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter. “Moderate showers.” Walter. (e) Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed. (f) Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities. (g) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind. Hooker.
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Moderate, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.
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Moderate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moderated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Moderating.] 1. To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.
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By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water. Arbuthnot.
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To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive. Spenser.
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2. To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting or a discussion; as, to moderate a synod; to moderate a debate.
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Moderate, v. i. 1. To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
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2. To preside as a moderator.
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Dr. Barlow [was] engaged . . . to moderate for him in the divinity disputation. Bp. Barlow's Remains (1693).
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moderated adj. having elements or qualities mixed in proper or suitable proportions; especially, made less severe. Contrasted with harsh.
Syn. -- qualified, tempered.
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Moderately (?), adv. In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent.
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Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller.
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Moderateness, n. The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
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moderating adj. lessening in intensity or strength. Opposite of intensifying. [Narrower terms: tempering; weakening]
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Moderation (?), n. [L. moderatio: cf. F. modération.] 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
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2. The state or quality of being mmoderate.
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In moderation placing all my glory,
While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Pope.
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3. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation.
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The calm and judicious moderation of Orange. Motley.
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4. pl. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.
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