Model vs. Taxonomy — What's the Difference?

A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail another, often larger object.

The classification and naming of organisms in an ordered system that is intended to indicate natural relationships, especially evolutionary relationships.

A preliminary work or construction that serves as a plan from which a final product is to be made

The science, laws, or principles of classification.

Such a work or construction used in testing or perfecting a final product

An ordered arrangement of groups or categories

A schematic description or representation of something, especially a system or phenomenon, that accounts for its properties and is used to study its characteristics

The science or the technique used to make a classification.

A style or design of an item

A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.

One serving as an example to be imitated or compared

The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

One that serves as the subject for an artist, especially a person employed to pose for a painter, sculptor, or photographer.

That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants, primarily by consideration of their natural relationships with respect to their structure or genetic origin; the laws or principles of classification; systematics.

One that serves as the basis for a fictional character or place.

A systematic arrangement of objects or concepts showing the relations between them, especially one including a hierarchical arrangement of types in which categories of objects are classified as subtypes of more abstract categories, starting from one or a small number of top categories, and descending to more specific types through an arbitrary number of levels. An ontology usually contains a taxonomy as one of the important principles of organization.

A person employed to display merchandise, such as clothing or cosmetics.

A classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc

(Zoology) An animal whose appearance is copied by a mimic.

(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification

Being, serving as, or used as a model.

Practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

Worthy of imitation

To make or construct a descriptive or representational model of

To plan, construct, or fashion in imitation of a model

To make by shaping a plastic substance

To form (clay, for example) into a shape.

To display by wearing or posing in

In painting, drawing, and photography, to give a three-dimensional appearance to, as by shading or highlighting.

To exhibit (a behavior) in such a way as to promote the establishment of similar patterns of behavior in another

To repeat (a behavior observed in another)

To make a model.

To work or serve as a model, as in wearing clothes for display or serving as the subject of an artist.

A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing.

A person, usually an attractive male or female that is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.

A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.

A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.

A style, type, or design.

The structural design of a complex system.

A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.

(logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.

(logic) An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.

(medicine) An animal that is used to study a human disease or pathology.

Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.

(software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.

Worthy of being a model; exemplary.

(transitive) to display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model

(transitive) to use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model

(transitive) to make a miniature model of

(transitive) to create from a substance such as clay

(intransitive) to make a model or models

(intransitive) to work as a model in art or fashion

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size; as, a

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.

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.

That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.

Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.

A person who poses as a pattern for an artist; as, the artist used his daughter as a model for an Indian maiden.

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.

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 model number.

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.

Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.

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.

To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.

A simplified description of a complex entity or process;

A type of product;

A person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor;

Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)

Something to be imitated;

Someone worthy of imitation;

A representative form or pattern;

A woman who wears clothes to display fashions;

The act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)

Plan or create according to a model or models

Form in clay, wax, etc;

Assume a posture as for artistic purposes;

Display (clothes) as a mannequin;

Create a representation or model of;

Construct a model of;

Worthy of imitation;