单词 | modeller |
释义 | modellermodelern. 1. A person who makes models, esp. in clay, plaster, wax, or the like; a person who models something. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > putting into form > by planning, guidance, etc. > one who modeller1591 the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > that which or one who shapes shaperc1425 model1594 modeller1712 the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > arranging > arranger modeller1712 arranger1780 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > modelling > [noun] > modeller modelist1659 fictor1665 figure-maker1769 modeller1791 formatore1862 1591 M. Sutcliffe Treat. Eccl. Discipline Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Euery modellor and libellor taketh on him to prescribe lawes. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxv. 79 Philosophie (as a former of judgements, and modeler of customes) shall be his principall lesson. 1632 T. Heywood Londini Art. & Sci. Scaturigo sig. C2 I come last to the Artist, the Moddellor and Composer of these seuerall Peeces. 1692 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 101 He..became..a great proposal maker, and modeller of state, and publisher of several seditious Pamphlets. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 414. ¶5 Our great Modellers of Gardens have their Magazines of Plants to dispose of. 1769 J. Wedgwood Let. 20 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 80 I hired an ingenious Boy last night for Etruria as a Modeler. 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §69 A competent draughtsman and an excellent modeller. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 465 The modeller and the mould-maker, whose occupations are very distinct branches of the art. The modeller has great scope for the exertion of natural and acquired ability, taste, and ingenuity. 1837 Rep. Royal Mint App. 6 The office of a modeller should be established, and I should humbly submit that he might be chosen from among the most celebrated of our Royal Academicians. 1846 Penny Cycl. Suppl. II. 313/1 The..formative skill of the modeller [in clay]. 1904 ‘M. Corelli’ God's Good Man 337 She had a figure which was the envy of all modellers of dress stands. 1950 Sat. Evening Post. 4 Nov. 152/2 The latter are housed in Navy barracks and fed Navy food during the five-day meet, with the idea of attracting modelers to naval aviation. 1976 Evening Times (Glasgow) Dec. 25/1 (advt.) Sanitary ware modellers. 1990 S. H. Schneider in J. Leggett Global Warming ii. 46 To simulate the climate, a modeller needs to decide which components of the climatic system to include and which variables to involve. 2. Computing. A computer program that creates, maintains, or analyses a mathematical or geometric model of something; spec. (in computer graphics) a program which can construct and maintain a basic three-dimensional representation of an object. ΚΠ 1983 IEEE Trans. Systems, Man & Cybernetics 14 805/1 The authors have implemented the Q-matrix Lagrangian formulation..in the computer program algebraic robot modeler. 1992 MacWorld June 121/1 (caption) Stratavision's skin modeler can wrap a surface over many different-shaped ribs. 1994 CAD User Mar. 55/3 In a conventional modeller, components are modelled by performing Bodeau operations—intersect, unite, and subtract—on primitives such as extrusions, cones and spheres. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591 |
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