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simulation
Noun
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A simulation of an event is when people make something that looks like the event happening, but it isn't real.
Before we watched them land on the moon, we watched a simulation so we would know what it would look like.
Doctors sometimes learn surgery in a simulation of a real operation.
To make movies you have to set up a lot of simulations.
model
Noun
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A model is a something that is made to look or act like something else, usually being smaller or simpler than the original.
Mathematical models can greatly help researchers understand the behavior of real systems.
The company builds and sells detailed 3-D models of the human body.
Scientists have developed a theoretical model of the planet's interior that describes one possibility.
A few years ago, the best climate models predicted that there would soon be an ice-free Arctic during the summer.
There is a good fit between the four-factor model and the data in this study.
His father had been a small man with a kind face and large hands who helped him build model airplanes and rockets.
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A model is an example of something, a goal, or a way to do something.
Both men and women who had public athletic role models during childhood were more likely to play sports at a higher level.
Each university used a variety of different instructional models.
It was a model company, combining high profits, happy workers, and clean, efficient production methods.
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A model is a person who puts on clothes, glasses, jewelery, etc. to show them at shows and in photographs or who poses for paintings or sculptures.
High-fashion runway models are typically 5 foot 10 inches or taller.
He develops his paintings without models being present in the studio.
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A model is a kind or design of car or other machine.
The wireless phone will be installed in future models from GM, Toyota and Honda.
model
Verb
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If you model clothes, jewelery, etc., you wear them to show them at shows and in photographs.
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If you model an action, you show how it is done.
Parents should model the behavior they want without forcing or controlling the child.
All music teachers can model good and poor tone quality.
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If you model mathx/math on mathy/math, you try to make mathx/math like mathy/math.
There's a youth baseball field modeled after Fenway Park in the old Memorial Stadium.
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If you model something, you make a smaller, simpler copy of it.
He's trying to model the human thought process on the computer.
for
Preposition
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shows that something belongs to something else, or has a specific function
This cake is for you.
This is a net for catching fish.
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For is used to show the reason for something
He was angry, for he had never been called such terrible names before.
for
Subordinator
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For introduces a clause with a subject and a to-infinitive
It's not good for you to be too relaxed.
evaluation
Noun
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Evaluation is the process of making a judgement.
If a teacher doesn't know the student well, it makes the evaluation of the student's level very difficult.
After the problem was found, we began an internal evaluation of the management.
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An evaluation is a judgement.
Lamont Library’s 24-hour service received a positive evaluation this past spring.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
integrated
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adjective
(= incorporate)
formed or united into a whole
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adjective
not segregated; designated as available to all races or groups
integrated schools
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adjective
formed into a whole or introduced into another entity
a more closely integrated economic and political system
— Dwight D.Eisenhower
an integrated Europe
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adjective
resembling a living organism in organization or development
society as an integrated whole
energy
Noun
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Energy is the ability to do work: move, give off heat, give off light, etc.
Unlike coal or oil, atomic energy production creates little air pollution.
Higher electricity prices should help promote energy efficiency.
The amount of energy in 100g or 100ml of food is much higher for foods with a lot of sugar.
She's all full of energy and she can't sit still.
This problem has taken up most of her time and energy for over a year.
system
Noun
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A group of things that work together; a way of doing something.
This coloured paper is part of my system for keeping lists of people.