Modeling \Mod"el*ing\, 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.]
   [1913 Webster]

   Modeling plane, a small plane for planing rounded objects.
      

   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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	Model \Mod"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Modeledor 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.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	modeling
     n 1: sculpture produced by molding [syn: mold, mould, molding,
           moulding, clay sculpture]
     2: a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished
        work can be copied [syn: modelling, molding, moulding]
     3: the act of representing something (usually on a smaller
        scale) [syn: model, modelling]

	

	52 Moby Thesaurus words for "modeling":
   CYSP sculpture, anaglyptics, anaglyptography,
   architectural sculpture, bone-carving, casting, ceroplastics,
   chasing, clay sculpture, conformation, creation,
   decorative sculpture, earth art, efformation, embossing, engraving,
   fashioning, figuration, formation, formature, forming, founding,
   garden sculpture, gem-cutting, glass sculpture, glyptic,
   ivory-carving, lost-wax process, metal sculpture, molding,
   monumental sculpture, morphogenesis, morphogeny, paper sculpture,
   plaster casting, plastic art, portrait sculpture, relief,
   relief-carving, relievo, sculptor, sculpture, sculpturing, shaping,
   shell-carving, statuary, stone sculpture, stonecutting, whittling,
   wire sculpture, wood carving, xyloglyphy

	

	modeling
     
         US spelling of "modelling".
     
        (1999-12-10)