function office part role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group, the function of a teacher, the government must do its part, play its role |
role | normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting, what is your role on the team? |
gender role | the overt expression of attitudes that indicate to others the degree of your maleness or femaleness, your gender role is the public expression of your gender identity |
model modelling modeling | the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) |
cutaway cutaway drawing cutaway model | a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts |
model simulation | representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) |
Model T | the first widely available automobile powered by a gasoline engine, mass-produced by Henry Ford fromto |
function purpose role use | what something is used for, the function of an auger is to bore holes, ballet is beautiful but what use is it? |
model | a type of product, his car was an old model |
model theoretical account framework | a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process, the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems |
exemplar example model good example | something to be imitated, an exemplar of success, a model of clarity, he is the very model of a modern major general |
character role theatrical role part persona | an actor's portrayal of someone in a play, she played the part of Desdemona |
bit part minor role | a small role |
title role name part | the role of the character after whom the play is named |
model example | a representative form or pattern, I profited from his example |
semantic role participant role | (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause |
affected role patient role patient | the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
agentive role agent | the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
benefactive role beneficiary | the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
instrumental role instrument | the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process |
locative role locative | the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb |
recipient role recipient | the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
resultant role result | the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause |
temporal role temporal | the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb |
actor histrion player thespian role player | a theatrical performer |
artist's model sitter | a person who poses for a painter or sculptor |
dressmaker's model | someone who models dresses |
b imposter impostor pretender fake faker fraud sham shammer pseudo pseud role player | a person who makes deceitful pretenses |
mannequin manikin mannikin manakin fashion model model | a woman who wears clothes to display fashions, she was too fat to be a mannequin |
model poser | 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 |
model role model | someone worthy of imitation, every child needs a role model |
photographer's model | a model who poses for photographers |
model mold mould | form in clay, wax, etc, model a head with clay |
model mock up | construct a model of, model an airplane |
model simulate | create a representation or model of, The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights |
model pattern | plan or create according to a model or models |
model | display (clothes) as a mannequin, model the latest fashion |
model pose sit posture | assume a posture as for artistic purposes, We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often |
exemplary model(a) | worthy of imitation, exemplary behavior, model citizens |