Word Meanings - MODELING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Modeling plane, a small plane

Additional info about word: MODELING

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. 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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• DRAW-CUT
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• EXECUTOR
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  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
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  Bad execution. D. Webster.