Style vs. Model — What's the Difference?

A particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way

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

A distinctive appearance, typically determined by the principles according to which something is designed

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

Fashionable elegance and sophistication

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

(in a flower) a narrow, typically elongated extension of the ovary, bearing the stigma.

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

(in an invertebrate) a small, slender pointed appendage; a stylet.

A style or design of an item

Archaic term for stylus (sense 2)

One serving as an example to be imitated or compared

Design or make in a particular form

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

Designate with a particular name, description, or title

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

The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed

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

The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.

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

Sort; type

Being, serving as, or used as a model.

A quality of imagination and individuality expressed in one's actions and tastes

Worthy of imitation

A comfortable and elegant mode of existence

To make or construct a descriptive or representational model of

A mode of living

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

The fashion of the moment, especially of dress; vogue

To make by shaping a plastic substance

A particular fashion

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

A customary manner of presenting printed material, including usage, punctuation, spelling, typography, and arrangement

To display by wearing or posing in

A name or title

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

An implement used for etching or engraving.

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

A slender pointed writing instrument used by the ancients on wax tablets.

To repeat (a behavior observed in another)

The needle of a phonograph.

To make a model.

The gnomon of a sundial.

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

(Botany) The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.

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

(Zoology) A slender, tubular, or bristlelike process

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.

(Medicine) A surgical probing instrument; a stylet.

A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.

(Obsolete) A pen.

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

To design or fashion in a certain way

A style, type, or design.

To arrange (hair) in a certain way, as by cutting, coloring, or curling.

The structural design of a complex system.

To call or name; designate

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

To make consistent with rules of style

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

Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.

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

(historical) A sharp stick used for writing on clay tablets or other surfaces; a stylus; an instrument used to write with ink; a pen.

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

A tool with a sharp point used in engraving; a burin, a graver, a stylet, a stylus.

Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.

The gnomon or pin of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.

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

(botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.

Worthy of being a model; exemplary.

(surgery) A kind of surgical instrument with a blunt point, used for exploration.

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

(zoology) A small, thin, pointed body part.

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

(by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.

(transitive) to make a miniature model of

A legal or traditional term or formula of words used to address or refer to a person, especially a monarch or a person holding a post or having a title.

(transitive) to create from a substance such as clay

A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.

(intransitive) to make a model or models

A particular manner of acting or behaving; (specifically) one regarded as fashionable or skilful; flair, grace.

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

A particular way in which one grooms, adorns, dresses, or carries oneself; (specifically) a way thought to be attractive or fashionable.

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

(computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.

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.

A set of rules regarding the presentation of text (spelling, typography, the citation of references, etc.) and illustrations that is applied by a publisher to the works it produces.

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.

(transitive) To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style)

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

To call or give a name or title to.

Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.

To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy.

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

To act in a way which seeks to show that one possesses style.

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.

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.

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.

Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.

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.

A pen; an author's pen.

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

Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.

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.

A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.

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

Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.

A simplified description of a complex entity or process;

A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.

A type of product;

Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.

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

A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.

Representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)

Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.

Something to be imitated;

The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.

Someone worthy of imitation;

A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

A representative form or pattern;

The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.

A woman who wears clothes to display fashions;

To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.

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

A particular kind (as to appearance);

Plan or create according to a model or models

How something is done or how it happens;

Form in clay, wax, etc;

A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period;

Assume a posture as for artistic purposes;

Distinctive and stylish elegance;

Display (clothes) as a mannequin;

The popular taste at a given time;

Create a representation or model of;

(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

Construct a model of;

Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display

Worthy of imitation;

A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving;

A slender bristlelike or tubular process;

Designate by an identifying term;

Make consistent with a certain fashion or style;

Make consistent with certain rules of style;