Species vs Model - What's the difference?
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A type or kind of thing.
* (Richard Holt Hutton) (1826-1897)
# A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.
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, title= # A rank in the classification of organisms, below genus and above subspecies; a taxon at that rank.
#* 1859 , (Charles Darwin), (On the Origin of Species) :
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, title= # (label) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
# (label) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.
# Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#* (Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
# A public spectacle or exhibition.
(label) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated, so named because they retain the image of the bread and wine before their transubstantiation into the body and blood of Christ.
Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)
A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; especially, one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.
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 female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show.
A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
(logic) An interpretation which makes a certain sentence true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that sentence.
A particular style, design, or make of a particular product.
(manufacturing) An identifier of a product given by its manufacturer (also called model number).
Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
* Shakespeare
Worthy of being a model; exemplary.
* (rfdate), Blackwood's Magazine , volume 289, page 525:
* 1898 , John Thorburn, The St. Andrew's Society of Ottawa: 1846-1897 : sketch , page 40:
* 1932 , Nora Fugger, James Austin Galaston (translator), The Glory of the Habsburgs: the Memoirs of Princess Fugger , page 35:
* 1934 , Charles Ryle Fay, Imperial economy and its place in the formation of economic doctrine, 1600-1932 , page 143:
* 1956 , Stephen Rynne, All Ireland , page 54:
* 1968 , American County Government , volume 33, page 19:
* 1999 , Michael D. Williams, Acquisition for the 21st century: the F-22 Development Program , page 113:
* 2002 , Uma Anand Segal, A framework for immigration: Asians in the United States , page 308:
* 2010 , Eleanor Coppola, Notes on a Life , page 140:
To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.
To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model.
To make a miniature model of.
To create from a substance such as clay.
To make a or models.
To be a model of any kind.
Species is a related term of model.
As nouns the difference between species and model
is that species is while model is template.species
English
(wikipedia species)Noun
(species)- What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
A Drier and Hotter Future, passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}
- Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.
- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- Wit,the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.
- the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet
- (Francis Bacon)
- There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.
Usage notes
* (specie) is a separate word that means coin money, not the singular version of (species). * See (species name).Derived terms
* chemical species * endangered species * microspecies * ring species * subspeciesSee also
* family * genus * kingdom * order * phylum * race * variety * binomial nomenclaturemodel
English
(wikipedia model)Alternative forms
* modellNoun
(en noun)- I had my father's signet in my purse, / Which was the model of that Danish seal.
- You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished.
- He was a model of eloquence and virtue.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
- Thou seest thy wretched brother die, / Who was the model of thy father's life.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* abstract model * animal model * arbitrage pricing model * business model * causal model * commercial model * computer model * conceptual model * data model * database model * Document Object Model * economy model * enterprise architecture model * entity-relationship model * fashion model * fetish model * fitness model * glamour model * information model * late model * mark to model * mathematical model * mental model * model aircraft * model checking * model organism * model solution * model theory * modelizer * modelly * multimodel * off-model * plamodel * production model * relational model * role model * runway model * scale model * scientific model * spokesmodel * supermodel * waterfall model * water-line model * view modelAdjective
(-)- At our approach the animals made so much noise that the owners of the hut peered round the door to see what was the matter; outwardly rather less model than the farm, there appeared two ancient Basques, emblematically black-bereted, gnarled [...]
- [...] from the land of your origin, because you demand the claims of those who believe it more model than yours, [...]
- Methods of game-preservation in their extensive and well-stocked hunting-grounds were as model as the huntsmanlike management of the hunts.
- [...] and we press with special severity on one small country whose agriculture is as model as is her way of rural life.
- True, it is an untidy county; the farmhouses are much more model' than the farms (when we reach Antrim we shall find that the farms are more ' model than the farmhouses).
- But not all the exchanges were as model as the sergeant. Some of the exchangees showed a rigidity and reluctance to adapt.
- It is as model as you can get.
- While Asians have been perceived as the model minority, it is increasingly clear that some Asian groups are more model than are others, and even within these model groups, a division exists [...]
- All were neat and well kept which added to the sense that they were more model than real.
Synonyms
* (worthy of being a model) idealVerb
- She modelled the shoes for her friends to see.
- They modelled the data with a computer to analyze the experiment’s results.
- He takes great pride in his skill at modeling airplanes.
- The sculptor modelled the clay into the form of a dolphin.
- The actress used to model before being discovered by Hollywood.