PROTOTYPES Synonyms

• an item of information that is typical of a class or group

• a representative form or pattern

• something to be imitated

• punishment intended as a warning to others

• an occurrence of something

• a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding

• a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

• the underlying structure

• a structure supporting or containing something

• a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

• a type of product

• a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor

• representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)

• something to be imitated

• someone worthy of imitation

• a representative form or pattern

• a woman who wears clothes to display fashions

• the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)

• worthy of imitation

• plan or create according to a model or models

• form in clay, wax, etc

• assume a posture as for artistic purposes

• display (clothes) as a mannequin

• create a representation or simulation of

• construct a model in the likeness of

• a small part of something intended as representative of the whole

• items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population

• all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

• take a sample of

• an example regarded as typical of its class

• a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes

• a model or standard for making comparisons

• an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint

• something a little different from others of the same type

• a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form

• a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

• a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something

• manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery)

• a standard or typical example

• a brief abstract (as of an article or book)

• an iconic mental representation

• (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world

• a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

• a standard or typical example

• language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

• someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)

• (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined

• the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public

• a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

• render visible, as by means of MRI

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

• a standard or typical example

• the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)

• the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time