Index of English words, starting with "mo"

(1) - Model (v. i.) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
(2) - Model (v. t.) 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.
(3) - Model (a.) Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
(4) - Model (n.) A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.
(5) - Model (n.) Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
(6) - Model (n.) That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
(7) - Model (n.) 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.
(8) - Model (n.) 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.
(9) - Model (n.) A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

(1) - Modeler (n.) One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art.

(1) - Moderate (v. i.) To preside as a moderator.
(2) - Moderate (v. i.) To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
(3) - Moderate (v. t.) To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.
(4) - Moderate (v. t.) To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.
(5) - Moderate (n.) One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.
(6) - Moderate (a.) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.
(7) - Moderate (a.) Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.
(8) - Moderate (a.) Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.
(9) - Moderate (a.) Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.
(10) - Moderate (a.) Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist.
(11) - Moderate (a.) Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.
(12) - Moderate (a.) Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.
(13) - Moderate (a.) Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained