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Archetype

The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.

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Broader term 2

Example 76% connected

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

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Model 76% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Original 74% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Original 74% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

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Original 92% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pilot 92% connected

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cognitive operation noun · 78% connection

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…

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Cognitive process noun · 78% connection

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…

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Mental process noun · 78% connection

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…

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Operation noun · 78% connection

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…

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Process noun · 78% connection

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…

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Reinforcement noun · 78% connection

(psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it

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Reinforcer noun · 78% connection

(psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it

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Reinforcing stimulus noun · 78% connection

(psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it

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Cognition noun · 78% connection

the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

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Deciding noun · 78% connection

the cognitive process of reaching a decision; "a good executive must be good at decision making"

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Decision making noun · 78% connection

the cognitive process of reaching a decision; "a good executive must be good at decision making"

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Immediate memory noun · 78% connection

what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it

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Knowledge noun · 78% connection

the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

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Long-term memory noun · 78% connection

your general store of remembered information

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LTM noun · 78% connection

your general store of remembered information

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Noesis noun · 78% connection

the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

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Archetypal adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: original, pattern, model, work, formed.
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Atavism noun · 78% connection

The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remot…

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Bosonic string theory noun · 78% connection

the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s.; "Although bosonic string theory has many attractive features, it…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: original, pattern, model, work, formed.
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Copy noun · 78% connection

That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imit…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: original, pattern, model, work, formed.
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Design noun · 78% connection

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: original, pattern, model, work, formed.
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Duplicate noun · 78% connection

An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy…

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Ectypal adjective · 78% connection

Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.

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Engraving noun · 78% connection

The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of pro…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: original, pattern, model, work, formed.
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Ensample noun · 78% connection

An example; a pattern or model for imitation.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: original, pattern, model, work, formed.
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Exemplar noun · 78% connection

A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist concei…

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Fashion noun · 78% connection

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coa…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: original, pattern, model, work, formed.
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form noun · 78% connection

That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.

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Guipure noun · 78% connection

A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: original, pattern, model, work, formed.
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Imitate verb · 78% connection

To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: original, pattern, model, work, formed.
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Imitative adjective · 78% connection

Formed after a model, pattern, or original.

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Modeling noun · 78% connection

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…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: original, pattern, model, work, formed.
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Native adjective · 78% connection

Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust.

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Order noun · 78% connection

(architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style…

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